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It does come down to the batteries, but I'm don't need to drive more than 25 miles a day for 97% of the year. The 9 days I do need to travel, I could either go by plane or rent a car.
I also liked John McCain's proposal during the campaign to offer $300 million to someone who created this next generation battery. I personally would like to see our nuclear waste be used to make radiation batteries. It would be small enough and well shielded that it wouldn't cause problems, but the half-life of some radioactive isotope that wouldn't be useful in a large scale reactor, but is still powerful enough to power a car would fix a lot of problems. It would cause a lot of traffic problems, but you could drive where ever without worrying about the gas price.
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