But indeed, if we have any intention of moving private transport to the grid (via plug-in hybrids, for instance), a lot more power generation capacity will be needed and a lot more wind.
It's just that with the same kind of impetus, the results on the wind side would pleasantly surprise everybody. Sigh... In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Then again, I guess you could say the same thing with respect to individual windmills and the wind, so maybe I'm just underestimating how effective a water wheel could be? Il faut se dépêcher d'agir, on a le monde à reconstruire