IMHO, the solution is a True Hybrid. More than 50 years ago the Railroads figured it out (sorta)-why do you think the locomotives that pull the big freight trains are called Diesel-Electrics? And the military has figured it out (sorta)- they have a prototype next gen HummVee in testing. Even stodgy old GM has almost got it, with their Roller Skate platform. What we need are vehicles powered by electric motors in the wheels, with electricity from an onboard generator driven by an engine that burns a bio-fuel(NOT blended gasoline or diesel), that's produced in a plant that uses biofuel. And what if our farmers became so good at raising whatever crop is needed to produce the biofuels, that we stopped needing to import oil, and actually became a fuel supplier to the world?
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