What it is likely to do is make stockholders question the short and long-term strategies of R&amp;D in companies invested (even if only in a subsidiary role) in electrics and hybrids...<p>Important will be the wherewithal to financially ride out the oil glut, essentially buying time until electrics and hybrids fully return to consumer radar...<p>Bad times for the oil industry:<p>US--through fracking, producing record amounts...&gt;oversupply
China slowing down...less demand, &gt;oversupply...
OPEC refusing to lower output...&gt;oversupply...
Iran released from sanctions...&gt;oversupply...
Russia, oil dependent economy, forced to sell...&gt;oversupply<p>Uncertain times...