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To make matters even WORSE, such technological alternatives ALREADY DO INDEED EXIST --- and have LONG EXISTED(!) --- CONTRARY to the notion that has been propagandistically cultivated among the hugely techologically IGNORANT preponderance of the "body politic", which has evidently been beguiled into believing that any meaningful change is predicated on hypothetical "exotic, futuristic" NEW developments "in the laboratory" over, say, the next fifty years or so.
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But the TRUTH of the matter is that by the mere application of very OLD technological concepts --- applying to the AUTOMOBILE things worked out MANY YEARS AGO NOW ALREADY in much HEAVIER-DUTY systems --- "we" could LONG AGO now already have easily FLAT-OUT ELIMINATED by now about THREE-FOURTHS of oil importation to refine into gasoline to fuel "our" automotive vehicular fleet --- had “we” but had the wit and the wisdom to do so!! And “we” would have thereby simply AVOIDED the huge waste of an entire WAR that has now CRASHED “our” whole economy!
However OUTRAGEOUS and OUTLANDISH that assertion may sound to many, make no mistake about it: PRECISELY THAT genuinely, simply IS the implication of the “new” ELECTRIC / I.C.E. "chimera" automotive architectural concept --- exemplified by the imminently forthcoming (really much BELATED!) Chevy VOLT --- or if not THAT, then by its now slightly-FURTHER-advanced EUROPEAN counterpart (jovially dubbed the AMPERE), soon to be followed, no doubt, by OTHER entries into “the derby” coming from all those clever folks over in ASIA. The idea involves BATTERY POWER carrying the car a number of miles (in the case of the VOLT, FORTY), with an internal combustion engine then kicking in if (and only if) the battery runs down. But FULLY THREE-FOURTHS of all personal auto usage "fits" within a forty-mile power budget! You go to the store, bank, doctor, etc., and you come back home AND PLUG THE CAR BACK INTO THE WALL. MOST OF THE TIME THE PETROLEUM-POWERED ENGINE NEVER RUNS!
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