Quote Originally Posted by Jampie View Post
This is one of those things where you need to understand a bit of nuance.

If the world stopped consuming Russian oil tomorrow the global economy would pitch straight into a depression. The long term solution? Electric cars - regardless of who makes them.

As to people buying consumer goods from China and India, list their other options please?
The future has to be nuclear power whose only drawback is the disposal of the radioactive waste, not a problem if it's shot out into the cosmic void, a one -way trip to Jupiter? Or Australia? It's not beyond the possibility of future science finding a way to make it useful or at least neutral, not that it would matter if it was Australia, or the USA.

There's no pollution, it's cleaner, a lower cost of production and safer than any alternative. We could have led the world if we had started it in the early 199o's when Maggie shut the pits.