If oil went to $2000 a barrel overnight we'd see some functional electric boats by the end of the month.
"Incentive is the mother of invention."
This entire topic has become strongly polarized (like so many issues of the day).
I find it discouraging and disappointing.
So it goes.
It's only been polarized by a small but loudly screaming bunch of pie-in-the-sky dreamers who envision a perfect world where everyone eats only plants, is happy with nothing, and all the deer jump for joy and the fish all wear diapers so the water stays clean.
The last time I checked there were ~3,000 different products/compounds made from oil.
Virtually everything in today's world uses those products for the production of most anything your eyes can see and hundreds more you can't see.
If oil reached 1/4th of that amount whole economic sectors would collapse, if it reached 1/2 of that whole countries would collapse.
Long before it reached the price that you envision countries would be at war, real war, not the "He shot a missile at us, so I'll shoot one back".
Right now, about 89% of all the plastics flowing into the Pacific come from a swath that starts in East Africa, crosses India and Southeast Asia into Southern China.
But people in San Francisco can't have a plastic straw? What is that about? It's about gross stupidity, (if it feels good do it,) the mindless ordering the brainless to "Do something".
China wants to commission additional coal plants at the rate of one a week, India is not far behind.
About 75% of the new babies born come from that swath I described above, meanwhile the Western countries are not reproducing themselves.
It's interesting that those who rant and rave the most about oil are the ones who have the most to lose.
Do you want the Western world to return to the lifestyle of those in Southeast Africa?
Perhaps we should return to a time before the Industrial Revolution, when 80% of the population was engaged in agriculture, (without tractors or fertilizer)?
I'm sorry, those who have become indoctrinated into the Greta Cult have the brains of a fence post.
If people, (actually those at the "top" in the world,) were really interested in "helping" those at the bottom they would make oil and all forms of energy as cheap as possible.
But they're not,,,, they don't want to.
