Shai Agassi and Electric Cars

I just finished watching the following TED talk by Shai Agassi:

A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/shai_agassi_on_electric_cars.html

I was impressed. He really does have a plan that could work. But it depends on just one thing that may be in short supply: political will. He makes it very clear that we have the technical ability to completely get rid of petroleum burning cars and transition entirely to electric cars. But do we have the will to do it?

Of course, anybody who's paying attention knows that we don't dare NOT do it. So who's paying attention? I'm pretty sure neither of the Senators from my home state (Texas) is paying attention. So they're rapidly making themselves a part of a huge problem instead of a part of the solution. Is it getting to be time to do something about that?