And introducing these systems on a larger scale, will not happen, because the big and powerful oil companies will not allow it. There is simply too much money to be gained from oil like I said.
They will make this money anyway, because oil is needed for a lot of different stuff, too. Neverthless, the oil companies as well as the car-industry must realize that oil is limited and one day will simply cease to be there. If no alternative systems have been introduced then the world will break down for a time. That said, the hugest unsoved problem currently is that we don't have any real equivalent for creating plastics, which will become very expensive then.
But to come back to your quote, well, there's not much that the oil companies can do about it once *we* the customers demand green energy from the car-industry. Yes, they have alot on money - and they would be foolish if they would invest all of it into stuff they won't sell then. That's not how the market behaves at all - but it responds to customer needs and wishes, paying customers. And that's the crux - once you or me are interested in spending even *more* money into new technology of course the automobile industry will sell, they will make more money then. The oil industry won't like it of course, but then, with all those oil-catastrophies going on and ever-increasing prices they won't get much feedback.
I saw a list, some time ago, of the 100 richest organizations/companies/nations in the world. Do you even know that some Car companies have more money than most of the world's countries? Do you know that Ford and GMC have more money than 6 or 7 coutries put together?
General Motors alone has more money than France, or Italy, or Greece, etc etc
So its not a matter of "do they have they money to do it". Its not a matter of "do they have the resources to do it" either.
They do.
Well, see above. The car-industry is interested selling cars, not oil. And vice-versa.
BTW I expect everybody here in the Chatroom has more money than France, Italy or the USA - because nations generally don't have money at all, they have chronical debt.
Germans dont care about anyone else but themselves.
Naturally, isn't it? Which is also the reason why there is this hype of green-energy here. Citizens don't want to live in a grey city amidst smoke, getting lung-cancer while the last places of green sicken away. For example, if in summer the near-earth ozone gets too high nobody is allowed to run his car in the specific city. That's bothering a lot of people, and one reason for a change. They *do* care, and if more would care - the oil industry wouldn't have a chance.
I dont know about which investors you're talking about, but the oil companies make tons of money by creating scarcity, and fixing the price of the barrel as they see fit. There are even events where some oil company has blown up its own machines in order to create at least some scarcity in oil.
It's basically the EU, and other nations.
You are very right, these oil companies are capitalists of the worst kind. A real reson for us all to get independant of them, which is easily said but not done; esp. as they stretch their arms into governments and other parts of industries very well. There can be no doubt they're fighting for their interests by all means.
Well, we have free energy, but nobody is gonna invest in it, because it DOESNT give any profit.
Lol! I agree with all of the others there, but wind energy? I don't think its efficient enough. I think it was to power Britain, we'd have to build electricity mills all the way round the coast of Wales, England and Scotland... Not practical.
That's basically the problem. There's not enough wind, there's not enough place (if you subtract private property), not enough sun, or big rivers (where no shipping is). Basically Africa has all these requirements - but unlike us, they haven't the demand nor infrastructure for all these possibilities.
Theoretically speaking, if someone made a car, that could run 500 miles with 1 battery charge, and could use solar power as well as get charged in an electricity station or something, almost never break down, and was really safe and fast, and could run reliably for 15 years, how much money do you think they could make from this car??
The hybrid technology, is a very clever scam, in order to keep the oil selling and alive, and to continue making these large profits of these so called "green cars". What the hell, I remember an episode of Top Gear, where they tested the second generation of Toyota Prius, a hybrid car that was claiming really low fuel consuption. Guess what. The hybrid actually had a smaller mile/gallon ratio than a BMW 2.5d which is a 2500 cc petrol engine. LOLZ, what a scam
That's what's coming out if you compare a german to a japanese car 
(just kidding).
Aside, hybrids re-fill electric energy where conventional cars ignore this. A really good concept, just that such a car consists of more increments and is thereby more expensive. Of course it's still in the kindershoes, but that can be said from anything that is new and will get solved when a wider establishment has been achieved.
Basically the trend in the car industry is ever to create cars that will consume less and lesser fuel. My car takes 4,5-5l on 100 km, and that was the main reason I bought this version (and not the one with more horsepower). The point is why would I want to waste my money on burning oil for nothing? Go back to the 80's how small and light cars did have so much use of fuel - nobody would be willing to buy these again today.
Well, given your electric car idea would be here right now, I suspect everbody will buy them at once. Thus, there will be lots of money to gain to those parts of the auto-industry who adapt quickly. However, as it is now, it's a pipe-dream. They don't run that long (because of the lack of a battery that is both forcefull in power and light in weight), they are NOT safe or fast (same reasons here) and of course they break down just like any car.
