In a recent column, NJ.com columnist Paul Mulshine looked at the issue of electric vehicles and whether they were ready for prime time to stop the use of fossil fuels.
But as he points out, the non-partisan US Energy Information Administration's latest Annual Energy Outlook says that petroleum use is predicted to rise from a current level of about 35 quadrillion BPUs (QBPU’s for short) to about 39 QBPUs by 2050. The report also says there will be a mere 16 QBPUs of alternative energy by 2050.
Mulshine concludes that for all the talk about alternative options being ready, that fossil fuels aren't going anywhere and "this isn't energy policy, it's virtue-signaling.
