Concerned Dad - school/career choices

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So what’s going to happen in the end? What’ll take for alternative vehicles to succeed? A $10/gal price on gas?

Your post sounded so pessimistic, but I hate to admit that alot of it’s probably true.

@Anonymous

Go into transportation at your own risk. Economically the US auto industry is a mess and the world market isn’t much better outside of growing sales figures in China and India.

Based on energy outlooks alone there is no chance for continued growth in the auto industry.

You can also forget about designing electric car or hydrogen cars on any major scale because the world missed the oppoturnity to make a successful switch to those fuels decades ago. There simply isn’t any infrastructure to handle it and there is no money to build it. If the oil companies can’t even be pressured to build new refineries or drilling platforms, they are never going to build hydrogen production plants.

Likewise biofuels are net energy loser. It would take an enormous amount of energy from fossil-fuel based fertilizer and industrial production to grow and harvest enough plant material to produce fuel supplies to meet current or growing demands.

Unless you can come up with a car that runs on republican bullshit, you’re better off becoming a bicycle designer.