When Shai opened with the question on if a country could be run without oil it really made me think. After he worked through several ways that he thought would work but wouldn't he figured that eletricity would be the best way to achieve the goal of no oil. I agree with this becasue other methods just don't seem to have the abundance to sustain an entire population. Electricity however has many ways to be produced that are sutainable including wind and solar that are another way to get off oil. One of my main problems with electric cars is that they don't go very far. Shai had a fix for that in a network system. When you park you plug your car in and when you are driving if your battery gets low you swap it out at a store. This really reminds me of gas stations today where when you get low you just fill up. With the battery swap system he figured that it would cost 8 cents a mile compared to $1.50 a mile to gas today. If you think like the average american whats not to like about saving money. And it would get even cheaper becasuse of the life of the battery. If it got that low a 40 mpg gallon car and the whole Pacific of oil could not compete. When he started talking about islands of electricity I didn't think that was good becasue you could only stay in a limited area. That seems to be one of the bigger problems with this concept. I really agree that the U.S. will be one of the last areas to get this system. Without a large tax on gas like Europe or places where gas isnt as cheap as it is here.
This was by far my favorite talk so far. It was a really good topic and the way he spoke gave it a lot of flow and made it really easy to follow. This topic made me think a lot about how cars and oil impact the economy and environment and how if changed there could be a lot of ups and apperently from this talk few downs. Oil is one of the resons our economy is bad so why don't we just get rid of it and its problems.
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