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<blockquote data-quote="brett636" data-source="post: 943847" data-attributes="member: 249"><p>Electric cars are far from becoming the main mode of transportation in the future.&nbsp; Our electrical grids simply don&#039;t have the excess capacity to supply the energy needs of a populace using mostly electric cars, not to mention our lives are built around cars that only take a few minutes to refuel and even with todays advances in batteries and charging the best we can hope for is a 45 minute quick charge and that is with a 480 volt charging station that is simply not widely available.&nbsp; If Obama really wanted to decrease our dependence on foreign oil and create a demand for a cleaner burning alternative fuel all he has to do is sign an executive order stating that all future vehicle purchases made by the federal government must be vehicles that run on CNG (compressed natural gas).&nbsp; That would cause more manufacturers to offer CNG powered vehicles as well as stimulate gas stations to add CNG pumps.&nbsp; We have an over abundance of CNG in this country (about 100 years worth readily available with much more yet to be tapped), and if we let the world know that our future transportation needs would be met with CNG it would cause an immediate drop in the price of oil while at the same time greatly reducing our importation of oil from countries that hate us.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="brett636, post: 943847, member: 249"] Electric cars are far from becoming the main mode of transportation in the future. Our electrical grids simply don't have the excess capacity to supply the energy needs of a populace using mostly electric cars, not to mention our lives are built around cars that only take a few minutes to refuel and even with todays advances in batteries and charging the best we can hope for is a 45 minute quick charge and that is with a 480 volt charging station that is simply not widely available. If Obama really wanted to decrease our dependence on foreign oil and create a demand for a cleaner burning alternative fuel all he has to do is sign an executive order stating that all future vehicle purchases made by the federal government must be vehicles that run on CNG (compressed natural gas). That would cause more manufacturers to offer CNG powered vehicles as well as stimulate gas stations to add CNG pumps. We have an over abundance of CNG in this country (about 100 years worth readily available with much more yet to be tapped), and if we let the world know that our future transportation needs would be met with CNG it would cause an immediate drop in the price of oil while at the same time greatly reducing our importation of oil from countries that hate us. [/QUOTE]

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