Originally Posted by Turbosina

Nobody's saying you need to get rid of your F250. Heck, I own a turbocharged piston aircraft, and they're going to pry that out of my cold dead hands. And electric airplanes are still a long way off, although there are some very light, all-electric GA aircraft that are showing promise.

What I am saying is that the sooner we replace oil as a primary fuel, the better. 10 years from now we'll have electric F350s, boats, and whatever other toys you want (aside from commercial aircraft). As a nation, we should be investing heavily in bringing replacement technologies to market. It's a win-win: we create jobs with the development of the new tech (admittedly, it'd probably be a transfer of jobs from petrochemical extraction and refinement, rather than a net creation of jobs), and we quit pouring so much carbon into the atmosphere. We also deprive nations like Iran and Saudi of their leverage over us.

Show me the one negative result of such a scenario.