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Ever since the Oil crisis of the 70s and 80s, electric cars and trucks have been more or less the norm in most western nations, with none of the major auto makers willing to produce the old gasoline and diesel engines, Petroleum oil is now mostly used for heating and the production of plastics. So my question is this, is it possible, if the OAPEC embargo, and thus the oil crisis ended 10 years earlier, and oil prices dropped in the early 80s instead of the early 90s, that gasoline and diesel vehicles would still be on the road? Or was the technology already doomed?
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