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Won’t the scarcity of lithium cut quickly into any such plans?

Ted

If readers are not already aware of it, I suggest that they download a copy of the painstakingly-researched report entitled “On American Sustainability – Anatomy of a Societal Collapse,” by Chris Clugston. A summary of his report can be found at

http://www.energybulletin.net/node/46243

In that report Clugston indicates that 50 out of 58 non-renewable natural resources (which include rare earth metals) are already past peak or currently at peak production in the USA. We need to be focusing on rapidly adjusting to the new reality, including transition to local decentralized systems for transportation, electrical power generation, food production, and the like. We also need to draw up contingency plans that will help us deal with the now-unavoidable shocks, that are bound to happen, because we have ignored this reality for so long. We don’t have the time or resources to completely revamp the electrical grid to support electric vehicles. Besides, to put all of our eggs in one basket (the smart grid), goes against a fundamental principle of resilient systems, although it may look desirable to a bureaucrat in Washington because it appears as though it could centralize yet more power in the hands of the Washington establishment. More about this can be found in my book “Kicking The Gasoline & Petro-Diesel Habit: A Business Manager’s Blueprint For Action.”