It’s technically possible. But not with gas engines and current federal regulations on crashworthyness. If the administration were to spend their money wisely, like having spent the $4 Billion they allocated on Cash For Clunkers on the development of a leectric vehicle recharging infrastructure rether than having p***** the money away, and using the $27 million that they’re spending to build a new Candian border post that will only have two agents servicing 2 cars per hour, then it could be done.
The problem is the countless hundreds of billions of dollars wasted on porkbarrel projects (like the border post mentione dabove) and agricultiral subsidies that could be invested in infrastructure won’t be.
Getting there by simply mandating that it be done will not work. It possibly could if vehicles were made super light with super efficient regenerative hybrid systems, but they wouldn’t meet crashworthyness reqiurements. Or the materials to make them would be super-engineered materials, super expensive.
I ahould add that Mr. Obama has an advantage when he makes these bold statements…he can completely ignore the laws of phsyics. And the laws of economics. And he does. Perhaps it’s because he’s never studied physics. Or Economics.