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** Remember that 'only 1 in 100,000 chance of lethal failure' = 'for every million customers, you get ten fatal accidents'. "Safe enough for test pilots/astronauts/the military/etc." and "safe enough for commercial sale" are two very very different things for a reason.
* Electric and hybrid cars may be an attempt to "replace" the petrol engine, but now [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece petrol made from genetically engineered bugs] is being created. However, this '''will''' be used in an attempt to solve the world petrol crisis, making this a [[Inverted Trope|deconstruction]] of why this trope ''can'' be bad.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20121118111341/http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/01/28/engineered-e-coli-bacteria-produces-road-ready-diesel/ It's also being used] for diesel as well. So looks like electric and hybrid cars may not be needed in the near-future, with possible [[Zeerust]] implications...
** There's pretty much no way that these technologies would be enough to sustain the world's need of oil should production start dropping (do you have any idea HOW much oil would be needed in a SHORT amount of time). Still, it's always nice to have stopgap solutions to make the transition process easier.
** One energy policy analyst once said that switching from petroleum energy to solar power is like "being addicted to vodka and switching over to gin." Therefore, the analyst stated that instead of trying to develop some revolutionary new power source, the solution should focus more on less energy consumption and a diversity of energy sources.
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