Oil, gas and uranium/plutonium was put on earth for us to use for energy, drill baby drill...
Solar, wind and what ever other so called "green" renewable energy are decades away from being practical...
In 1900, the airplane was a long time away from being practical as either in war or peace. That was hardly a good reason to put it on the shelf.
In the late 1800s electric cars were more popular then gasoline ones, So what's your point?
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WTF?
You didn't know that? I thought you were a Yankee that went to skool?
Common knowledge.
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Common knowledge like common sense is a myth.
People who use those terms have neither knowledge or sense.
WTF asshole, I know history and I know cars among a host of other things, you act like you are 12 years old and now don't even know what the 70s oil crisis was about?
THE BIRTH OF THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE
It’s hard to pinpoint the invention of the electric car to one inventor or country. Instead it was a series of breakthroughs -- from the battery to the electric motor -- in the 1800s that led to the first electric vehicle on the road.
In the early part of the century, innovators in Hungary, the Netherlands and the United States -- including a blacksmith from Vermont -- began toying with the concept of a battery-powered vehicle and created some of the first small-scale electric cars. And while Robert Anderson, a British inventor, developed the first crude electric carriage around this same time, it wasn’t until the second half of the 19th century that French and English inventors built some of the first practical electric cars.
Here in the U.S., the first successful electric car made its debut around 1890 thanks to William Morrison, a chemist who lived in Des Moines, Iowa. His six-passenger vehicle capable of a top speed of 14 miles per hour was little more than an electrified wagon, but it helped spark interest in electric vehicles.
Over the next few years, electric vehicles from different automakers began popping up across the U.S. New York City even had a fleet of more than 60 electric taxis.
By 1900, electric cars were at their heyday, accounting for around a third of all vehicles on the road. During the next 10 years, they continued to show strong sales.
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