A possible workaround would be vehicles that use CNG, but self-service would then probably go out the window unless we developed a fill interface that requires no human intervention.

My problem with CNG vehicles is not the physical science, but the political science. Not too long ago the Dims were promoting using “clean burning natural gas” to save us from our carbon sins. And we saw CNG/LNG vehicles like busses and utility trucks appear. The same with Obama’s EPA forcing my power company to shutter a nearby coal plant (admittedly it was 100 years old and probably a pollution nightmare) and replace it with power produced by “clean burning natural gas” fueled power plants, not newer and cleaner coal plants. Our power bills shot up to pay for that.

Only for Biden in his first week to issue multiple EO’s to make it harder to drill for natural gas and oil. Why? Because the Dims’ narrative had changed in a few years and they hated on natural gas like it was killing us all.

That taught me that there’s no pleasing the Dims and their global warming doomsday cult policies. So I installed decentralized solar on the home in May 2021 to play with it for a year to see first hand its strengths and weaknesses, relative to both my climate and my power consumption habits. The next year I converted my two natural gas appliances to electric, upgraded the solar, and replaced my wife’s old gas crossover with an EV one.

I agree with fellow conservatives on the physical science of hydrocarbons being better than most alternative sources (save perhaps hydropower). (Note that I call it “alternative” energy, not “green” energy because I don’t see anything eco-friendly about my solar or EV.) But I promise you, if it’s feasible and practical for your situation, there’s great reward in removing the POLITICAL SCIENCE from most of your energy consumption. And that happens only with the word DECENTRALIZED in front of my solar (the EV extends that homemade power use out onto the road too, at least for local driving). When 80% of all the power we consume in our now all-electric home comes from homemade power, pulling only 20% from the grid, the politicians’ energy policies and/or trade policies don’t have much direct impact on my budget. Again, that’s not a “green” energy vs hydrocarbons argument. That’s my push for anything we as individual Americans (or families) can do to be more self-sustaining so that the political class has regulatory power over us.