Again, an ever increasing amount of electricity could be coming from renewable sources.

Cost-competitive doesn't enter into it. If you built an entire infrastructure around fossil fuels, then renewables became cheaper it still might not make sense to tear down all that infrastructure and re-build.

Any ban would likely go into place over decades. It's not as if gasoline would disappear tomorrow, so again that's pure hyperbole.

Calling people concerned with anthropogenic climate change "catastrophists" is essentially an ad hominim, attempting to undermine their argument by labeling them as something negative. The reality is that the earth is warming, and greenhouse gasses are the cause. Your entire argument is based on Appeal to Anticonformity when you state that 97% of scientists could be wrong. In fact you provide absolutely no evidence attacking the actual science, as if you expect us to believe you simply because the majority isn't always correct.

Meanwhile we're seeing the earth warm, we're seeing more chaotic weather patterns because of it, and we could do something about it if people would think long-term instead of short term.