Can the world economy recover with rising oil prices?

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Squilliam said:

Haha, maybe!

But the thing is if someone wants to travel further than the distance an electric car can manage they may very well be better off taking a train/plane or even renting a car. I don't think there are many people who would suffer too great a hardship if they were forced to drive electric cars with say 100 mile ranges or so (160km). The problem with hybrids is that you still have to pay for the expensive catalytic converter and expensive engine plus your fuel tank and other systems. A purely electrical car is much simpler and therefore could be cheaper in the long term and perhaps even cheaper to buy initially.

Unfortunately Yellowstone is a national park for them.

Finland would probably have some really good wind power potential. I would guess that it would be quite windy in your country, especially in the highlands. You also have lots of open spaces and noone to complain about the view! I suspect though that Solar wouldn't really be a winner for your country. In my country its up to the power companies to decide where to put the capacity. We have 3 state owned and 1 privately owned power companies all corporatised. What exactly do you have to convert to gasoline? Does Finland have large coal reserves?

 

There always are alternate options for transportation, but in reality, people buy their cars to travel them with. They buy the cars because they are practical and flexible.
I do see electrical vehicles being the future, but the transition period needs a solution, where hybrids look like the best solution so far.
Hybrids don't need catalytic converter, you can use for example combustion engine to run a charger (not a cheap solution either).

Surprisingly often, evinronment protection turns against itself. Yellowstone is a large area, so there would be enough room for power plants as well as for a national park.

Well, wind power is just about as epic fail here, as is solar power (and wind essentially is solar power). The wind power plants we have, (can) run max of 10% of time (if i recall) and the days there are enough wind for the plants, are few and mostly in the autumn. Inland is a bad place for wind power, since there's less wind that there is on a coast. One of the biggest problems with solar and wind power is, that when there's the biggest need for energy, there's no sun or wind.

To convert to gasoline, there would be turf. The groundtype found in swamps, which plant remains turn into in certain conditions, such as in variable temperature and lack of oxygen.
The yearly amount it renews, would be enough to replace the majority of oil that is used here in traffic (and in the future, all of it).