No it's not. There is for all piratical purposes unlimited amounts of oil in the planet. We're getting to the lower ores, the tars and sluge, basically. Once we're below that, we've got air and water. That's why many, many people are looking to that unlimited oil resource (sky and water and sun), so that won't happen. There has never been a non-localized shortage on earth in history.

Here's some of the best links in this regard:
1. The synthesis of gasoline and diesel with nuclear energy (PDF).
2. The Sandia CR-5 thermochemical engine (PDF).
3. Windfuels.

Oil will never run dry, ever. Right now, we throw out waste biomass equivalent to 20% of our oil consumption, and about 50% of our oil consumption. Cut oil use by 50% (even lead-acid plug-in hybrids can achieve this), and we don't need any of the above technologies. We just need the same stuff the South Africans currently use to turn coal into diesel.

Oh, and I should mention that natural gas, not oil, (really hydrogen) is the primary component of the "oil-based" fertilizers. A lot more of that than oil. In fact, ammonia was originally produced by using hydrogen form water and electricity from hydroelectric powerplants.

More people are killed every year in the USA by colds and flus than by cars and SUVs. But enjoy your two minutes hate against SUV drivers.

Al-air fuel cells. If could improve the technology to make it more efficient (its currently 40% aluminium to electricity), we could see a future where aluminium is a transportation fuel.

Should be energy.

Not necessarily. What you want is something that is energy dense yet kinetically stable. Explosives are the opposite. Explosives deliver small amounts of power really fast. For example, the best explosives (according to wiki) are around 16 MJ/L and most around 3-5 MJ/L. Gasoline is at 34 MJ/L. If you want something that stores a lot of energy and won't explode, look no further than a pile of scrap aluminium. Aluminium stores roughly 83 MJ/L. You wouldn't be scared to have a ton of aluminium lying around behind your house, but that block could store enough energy to run your house for a year.

Keep it real.

Two links:

Link 1
Link 2

1. get clean energy to people in the developing world.
2. getting rid of people who oppose nuclear power in the developed world.
2. build nuclear plants.
3. synthesising gasoline and diesel fuel with nuclear power.
4. no more CO2!!! profit!

Notice: no ?????? mark step.

Those numbers already take into account battery and charger inefficiencies. They are wall outlet to road efficiencies. The EPA numbers are plant to wall outlet. Plant to wall outlet and wall outlet to road is powerplant to road. Still, the numbers are going to be off, up to 30% of fuel economy is due to the driver.

Better, but would likely suffer from shorter cycle life. Now a nickel-iron on the other hand...

I hope not. Carbon fiber is expensive, and according to the EPA, saving 100 pounds is a 1% increase in fuel economy. With the electric system getting them a 70-80 increase, saving a few pounds here and there is not worth it.

Regen gains you about a ten percent range increase. The system is already really efficient. You don't need nor want to spend money to make it more efficient.

Yep. My goal is to expand this post a bit, and then copy and paste into every misinformed anti-electric car post on /. Feel free to do the same for other websites. Let me know if you think of any more expanding I could do.

Not entirely. If the car is directly solar powered, or if it is powered by a nuclear reactor, or some kind of "free energy" thing, then it's green.

Yeah, I fail.

Wait for $20/gal gasoline and watch driving habits change.

DOE estimates average of 1.3 lbs CO2 per kWh. Coal (the worst CO2 emitter) emits 2.1 lbs CO2 per kWh. Electric cars get between 4 and 10 miles per kWh. Worst case, that means 0.5 pounds of CO2 per mile. 1 gallon = 19.4 lbs of CO2. So, that's around 38 mpg CO2 emissions equivalent in the absolute worst case scenario. In the average case, we are looking at around 59.7 MPG. Diesel emits more CO2 than gasoline, by a factor of about 1.15. So, worst case is 43.7 MPG diesel, and average is 68.7 MPG diesel. These numbers are EPA testing of Tesla roadster and Rav4EV.

And have a bigger, more expensive battery pack, as well as range issues.