I'm sorry Tom, I really respect you, but that's some eutopian bull right there. "thousands of tiny batteries in electric cars." what a load!,(reply>), yo dawg I heard you like batteries so I put batteries in your grid so you can charge your batteries with your batteries,(reply>), It's called Vehicle 2 Grid. Don't try to fight reality, head in the sand is how people get screwed over. These kind of new energy protocols are going to be Big $$$ Buisness regardless of "Green" ideology. Greed will prevail when people realize it's lucrative business.,(reply>), it is technically feasable and anyway...would a utopia be a bad thing?,(reply>), @Joe Cleveland No, it won't. It may, however, make it almost impossible for manufacturers to actually SELL ICE cars. The fact is that there will always be enthusiasts who want ICE cars, and there is a very simple way to make that happen, whilst still cutting oil production and consumption to basically non-existent levels. We have ways of making renewable fuel now. Look at Ethanol for instance. Or how about Methane? Methane is a waste product from cows, which in a world dominated by electric cars would make cows the biggest producer of greenhouse gasses. We already have ways of capturing methane from cows, and burning it has less impact than just letting it escape into the atmosphere. Those two sources won't run dry as they are renewable, and both are actually BETTER sources of energy for internal combustion engines (Higher octane levels mean that you can crank up the compression ratio, and thus, improve economy). I have no doubt that electric cars WILL dominate the market, and possibly knock out ICE production completely off the map, but governments won't outright ban the use of ICE's, especially when they will fall to being basically only a hobby.,(reply>), Not buying an electric car will not be a choice. If the U.S. government comes to its senses, I see ICE cars will be illegal within 50 years.