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While I have no problem with viable alternatives to oil, there are presently none.
Making all those extra batteries is highly polluting.
The only present way to make the gigawatts of electricity needed to charge a nation of electric cars and busses every night is this: nuclear power plants and coal fired boilers to generate steam then eletricity.
Yes, there are windmills, but they cause environmental damage, and they have to be where the wind is constant enough to turn the wind mills and generate electricity. The bigger the blades the higher the wind speed has to be. I checked into this in 1977 and I watch recent documentaries. it just doesn't work, still experimental.
Solar cells: incredibly poor quality. They just don't generate large quatities of electricty with small amounts of solar cells.
For an environmental science class in 1990 I did the research for viable powerr generation. Coal and nuclear was it, with water/dams a distant third.
The rest are barely out of alpha test stage.
I would love to see a viable alternative, but it doesn't exist now.
Oh, corn into oil. Well, there is a weed, not a food product, that gives more oil per acre than corn does. But it is being ignored because farmers don't grow it.
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