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by gruglife 2179 days ago
You bring up a good point. My initial thought was that we would switch over to clean energy but to power the whole us is probably not feasible in the near term
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Roughly 70 percent of light vehicles can move from petroleum to electrification without any additional generation capacity in the US.

Source is an NREL research paper I read ~7 years ago, can’t find the link at the moment.