The paradigm I want to change is that, you can have a car that is beautiful, manufacturable, affordable, safe, fast, and oh, by the way, does 100 mpg, or its energy equivalent. Why wouldn't you?
We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy.
If you believe that the developing world deserves the same standards of living that we do in the developed world, then to achieve that, they need resources. They need the metals and the minerals to build the industries and the buildings and so forth, and the energy.
The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We're learning how to print it, make it more efficient.
