BS. No comparison.
Oil a the source of power, Lithium can store (DC) power but generates NONE.
All this EV crap is nonsense.
Solar power is a joke for solving power shortage, wind power is not reliable because the wind does not always blow at a specific location. (the wind always blows strong in the District of Corruption. Some from wind bags, some from farts of the corrupt)
Nuclear power is a source, but it has many bad side effects and dangers. Even it, is not perpetual.
So forget eliminating petroleum as the source of power.
That's all you need to know about this nonsense.
Whenever someone tells me about EVs and how wonderful they are for the environment, I tend to shove articles like this under their nose....
https://www.wired.com/story/lithium-batteries-environment-impact/
“Demand for lithium is increasing exponentially, and it doubled in price between 2016 and 2018. According to consultancy Cairn Energy Research Advisors, the lithium ion industry is expected to grow from 100 gigawatt hours (GWh) of annual production in 2017, to almost 800 GWhs in 2027.....
....In South America, the biggest problem is water. The continent’s Lithium Triangle, which covers parts of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile, holds more than half the world’s supply of the metal beneath its otherworldly salt flats. It’s also one of the driest places on earth. That’s a real issue, because to extract lithium, miners start by drilling a hole in the salt flats and pumping salty, mineral-rich brine to the surface.
Then they leave it to evaporate for months at a time, first creating a mixture of manganese, potassium, borax and lithium salts which is then filtered and placed into another evaporation pool, and so on. After between 12 and 18 months, the mixture has been filtered enough that lithium carbonate – white gold – can be extracted.
It’s a relatively cheap and effective process, but it uses a lot of water – approximately 500,000 gallons per tonne of lithium. In Chile’s Salar de Atacama, mining activities consumed 65 per cent of the region’s water. That is having a big impact on local farmers – who grow quinoa and herd llamas – in an area where some communities already have to get water driven in from elsewhere.
There’s also the potential – as occurred in Tibet – for toxic chemicals to leak from the evaporation pools into the water supply.....”
Great reminder!!
Thanks for posting :)