Oil prices - What's the breaking point for you?

[attack eagle]

more than 4 media companies Incant...
Ap and Reuters are two, I bet you can name at least 3 more.

but if you truly believe that then you are gonna hate me. I want to work in the industry. That means covering what I think is important, AND that which the stupid american populace will stop 30 seconds to watch. Talking to an empty room is not communication after all.

[rob101]

Electric cars... powered by fossil fuels...

100% of the electricity I use comes from natural gas.

Neither is as dense and inexpensive a power supply as petrol.

Natural gas is a hell of alot cheaper especially given the increase in effeciency vs. a petrol engine. even with coal fired power plant an electric car will put out the same emissions as a HEV, at about half the energy costs.
likewise i can go and buy 100% wind or solar energy at about 5% more for the same amount of electricity. how can you match that without an electric car? given that wind and solar represent over 70x less carbon dioxide than coal including life cycle costs of producing the power plants. I fail to see how a gasoline powered HEV is ever going to match that.
http://avt.inel.gov/pdf/fsev/costs.pdf
we don't use miles and gallons but we do use kWh with green electricity, fuel aready costs $4+/gallon here and electricity is about 17c/kWh for 100% green, so basically that graph says that electric car beats gasoline power hybrid even assuming the worst effeciency electric drive systems around.