Is getting rid of, or really cutting back on fossil fuel machines really the answer?

Electro-magnetic propulsion and anti-gravity devices is/are the wave of the future.

Personally there will always be a need to get products from one point in the country to another, so there will always be a need for transport trucks and locomotives, I also know that mass transit might have it’s place but I hate it for myself , so until we totally deplete fossil fuel it is here just think we need higher standards on emission equipment.

@Dan_Lyons sounds good but will we see that in the next few years ,and at a cost the average working slob can afford?

Fossil fuels have a limited supply. We need new ways of propulsion.

Cutting way back on fossil fuel machines will buy us more time to replace them with something sustainable.

Remember, plastic is a petroleum product and if we keep increasing our reliance on plastic, we’ll eventually need our remaining petroleum for that application.

Whenever I see stuff like this, I wish Roadside Picnic was a reality.

Perpetual Rings to power most everything! Oh well, one can dream.

Then again, there’s the more “dystopian” option with bio batteries, taking soylent green up to eleven…

One a more serious note, I support Hydrogen as an alternative energy source. True, thus far technology indicates it that it’s not as efficient but who knows about technological development years down the road. Sure, it’d be a price to pay and people generally don’t like making such sacrifices, but it’s arguably a better price to pay than the one to come if we continue to rely on fossil fuels to such an extent.

The only viable option right now that is even remotely workable is switching petro driven implements to electric and generating power using nuke plants of some type. I don’t care for this very much. We need a manhattan project for clean energy in a bad way.

It is a partial solution. Sticking your finger in the dike stops the flow for the interim but does not fix the problem.

As @marinelife already stated above, there is a definite finite supply of fossils fuels and they will run out at some point in time. Hydrogen fuel technology is a good idea, in my opinion, but it is also going to be expensive.

The documentary A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash is a sobering and somewhat unsettling look at the future with the dwindling reserves of fossils fuels on the planet.