No, never gave it a thought just suggesting that some yet unknown power source may yet to be discovered.
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Well we never know but I bet it would involve electrons 
Personally, as a plan for survival, I think waiting for an as yet unknown mystery power source to turn up and save the world at the last minute is a suboptimal strategy.
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Bring back steam 
Recycled. No problems.
Exactly, recycling and repurposing 
Upcycling, rather than recycling, just to be a pedant
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Whatever you’re having yourself
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The diesel I use has already been found, refined, transported and stored. I can’t unfind it.
A far sighted man called Edwin Foden (ERF) once broke away from the family firm (Foden) because he wanted to build diesel lorries while the rest of the family continued to pursue their insistance that there was no alternative to steam. They finally came round to his point of view some years later but the point is that there is always something new and unknown in the future and, while it might seem to be a very good idea at the time, you never know. He told his Dad and brother that they were wrong and now others would be telling him that he was. @JohnBoy has a point, we don’t know what is around the corner and in the meantime, slowly slowly is more sensible.
Does anyone remember when Craven A told us that their fags were good for your throat? 
Or even better when Capstan were bragging how good their’s were because they were ‘full strengh’. Old Mr.Grifiths in my office in 1960 coughed himsel red in the face on them and they eventually finished him off. Mind you he was 90 when they carried him away, 30 years later 
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Well that pretty much sums up the internal combustion engine in it development.
Which of course is no different from breaking away from diesel to build electric, whilst others say there is no alternative to diesel/petrol. You made a very good point very well.
From lead acid, through NiCad to lithium ion, to solid state the development has been nothing short of amazing.
That’s probably a fair enough point of view for someone at your stage of life but not one that is going to help my granddaughter’s generation.
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Yes David, and your continued use of diesel creates the current demand for more and more oil extraction from newer locations as existing reserves deplete spreading the environmental devastation ever wider.
Plastics (a lot of plastic in both EV and ICE cars) are also derived from oil
Exacty, and look at the damage they do to the environment. There are alternatives.
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It would be ironic if his business tanked because of his politics.
Wouldnt it! Posted it to cheer Billy up 
I could spend whole nanoseconds caring 
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The ugliest cars on the road, I would be embarressed to be seen in one to be honest. Ugh!
But, if fewer people are using it then less will need to be found, refined, transported and stored, no?