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3Dogmatic That's not the issue babe, the US has never refined its own oil because our refineries are built for heavy, sour oil -- which is produced abroad -- and the oil that we mine is heavy and sweet. Also, most of our oil is found near the Mississippi River & Gulf of Mexico, which makes it a lot cheaper to export by ship.
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soar2newhighs So let's make it popular. 🤷♂️ We're collectively sitting on an enormous gold mine of potential methane in the form of sewage, food waste, & other bio-waste. All we really need is to set up the infrastructure to use anaerobic decomposition to extract methane, which farms already do, and the technology to run trucks & buses on methane is already in use in some places.
As for electric cars, some have batteries that run as low as $2,500; what it comes down to is consumers choosing products that they can afford. Electric cars are also a lot cheaper to run once you've got the up-front cost out of the way, only a little over a third of the costs as a gas-powered car. The only big problem at this point is range, & the obvious solution to that is to just build more charging ports. They can even be retrofitted onto regular-ass parking spaces with relative ease.
