How much energy does it take to rebuild America into select parts of Europe, where land is so expensive nobody but the old guard who already has it can expand outside of urban utopias , is it greater than the minor share spent on personal transportation fuels? I am tired of this conversation, and unless you have done the entire lengths of I-70, I-80 and I-90 you have zero idea of what the needs are of the middle American....250 miles in a -10C snowstorm with 3 minute refueling, not because we are in hurry, we do not want frostbite crossing the plains. Light to heavy hybrids work well for most people, but the US auto companies do not make any profit from the hybrid part. Make the government pay for it is the green mantra, get on that.