You're not wrong, you're absolutely right. Crazy environmentalists want to throw out a product of over one hundred years of technical refinement - the internal combustion engine and gasoline. Extremely efficient, and gasoline packs a lot of punch for the money. My liberal brother-in-law bet me $100 in 2009 that gasoline powered cars would disappear within five years and electric cars would be dominant. He hasn't paid up, conveniently denying he made the bet due to dementia. He's lost a lot of money in solar power investments.
Electric cars are not going to become dominant for some years to come. For the time being, ICE cars will be dominant for quite a while.
Modern gasoline engines have a maximum thermal efficiency of about 25% to 30% when used to power a car.
That is down right pitiful.