EV Conversion, Why?

To begin it is important to ask why. Why do an electric vehicle conversion? Why are electric vehicles important? To what end will an EV conversion bring us?

So, I'll start with some basic stats.

• 83,607 K barrels/day - World Petroleum Consumption (2005)
• 20,802 K barrels/day - US Petroleum Consumption (2005)
• 9,159 K barrels/day - US Finished Motor Gasoline (2005)
• 13,714 K barrels/day - US Total Petroleum Import (2005)

http://www.eia.doe.gov/basics/quickoil.html

So, the US consumes about 24% of the worlds petroleum. About 45% of that is for motor gasoline. And about 65% is imported. About 3000 K barrels/day or 23% from Canada and Mexico.