Yes it can and probably will but I thinks its for our own good. Batteries, Smart Grid, electric vehicles hmmmm adding another petroleum reserve sight, secret or not so secret gov. coal to gas plants. All done piece meal to not startle the chickens, arabs, chinese, oil companies an so on.
Do the math people, we are going to leave gas for our cars behind, we cannot afford to police that part of the world......walk away let the russians an chinese deal with the rag heads....while we manage our little part of the world, Brazil, US and Canada worlds best grp of countries must unite and save Mexico, then and only then will we have it goin on.