Is the world in general and Europe in particular finally preparing itself for the "post-oil" era? Several symptoms point to it. The USA, EU countries and several other countries have sufficient scientific and technical knowledge to launch into it, but there were two pre-requisites which were necessary before they would put the necessary effort and means into it: a sustained and growing increase in the price of oil, and the political will to impose the turnaround on the oil magnates who are...