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Originally Posted by Chrizzle fo' Shizzle
You do realize that we get relatively little electricity from oil, right?
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Everything we use is related to oil in some way. Food, medicine, gasoline, uranium, everything. Besides, after peak oil we're going to have to run cars on something, but what? Not ethanol because it takes more energy to produce the ethanol than you get from burning it. Hydrogen is only an energy storage mechanism. Biodiesel is the same. Electric cars need to charge up somehow, and where will that energy come from?
A lot of the electricity we produce now is produced in natural gas plants. The problem is that natural gas reserves have already peaked. The price of nat gas has gone up 300% in 5 years. Hydroelectricity requires a specific set of circumstances and has environmental impacts of its own. Nuclear energy is not only hugely expensive, but nuclear waste is the most toxic substance on earth and we can't even store it properly, not to mention that uranium is non-renewable and has its own peak. It also requires fossil fuels to mine uranium.