by 1of10K » Sat Jun 06, 2009 12:40 pm
My Magic 8 Ball says it will be just like it is now for all the classic horse drawn buggys, covered wagons, stagecoaches, etc. from our (USA at least) past. Once a new way of power and transportation take over, the cars as we know them, or at least some of them, will also be museum only pieces, not to drive the highways again. As of now, the very few vintage horse drawn vehicles you see in parades have been somewhat adapted for the modern day. Some have tailights, most are tinkered with to make it both easier for the horse and easier to pull the wagon on a paved road it was never designed for. Some of our cars in the future may have to be adapted to propane. hydrogen, etc. just make it "out of the barn" once in awhile. Oil will increasingly get costly due to both politics and developing 3rd world demand, encouraging alternative power sources. When economical power alternatives are widespread and affordable, the remaining oil will return to the ultra cheap level, just because demand for that "vintage" fuel has fallen away for good. The remaining oil will be refined to make the remaining gas for the few internal combustion cars that may still be runable. But lets face it, unfortunately the deterioration of plastic and rubber parts will kill off most current cars for good long before that happens.