Amen Flip! It's never empty til it's empty.
Ron - sure it will take a while, but in the mean time we have our current crop of pretty decent performance cars to hold us over.
PS: Looking waay ahead here, but have you guys seen the eyeball-flattening acceleration numbers some of the prototype electric cars are churning out? If we go that route (and I suspect there will be more than one technology being deployed concurrently) it's just a matter of perfecting the battery technology and packaging. We will miss the big cam V8 bellow and the smell of hi-octane for a while, but 1000+ ft/lbs of torque from idle to unlimited redline churning through a continuously variable transmission just might help ease the pain. Warp speed, Mr. Scott!