[TedfromGA]

Petroleum (oil) is used for thousands of everyday products we consume. Examples: cloth, plastics, roads, roofs, many other construction materials, medical products, and so on. Petroleum & natural gas are used to generate the majority of electricity in the U.S.

Consider the additional amount of electricity we will need to feed all the "electric" cars/trucks/buses. Our electrical grid is at capacity (California's already has rolling brown outs). We will need significant increase in generating capacity to feed all those "green" things.

Solar generation is a good example of a near sited view of conservation. If one looks at the total amount of resources and electricity consumed to manufacture, deliver, install, use, and then recycle/destroy the "solar" product then there is nothing "green" about it. We are being sold a lot of baloney about "green" capabilities.

Technical advances will improve the life cycle cost of "green", but I submit we are many years from breaking even between petroleum based use vs "green".