How much oil will it take to pave the roads, run the pavers, dump trucks and factories that make ashphalt? Without smooth roads, and a way to repair them easily, a Tesla needs wings to take you from A to B.
Nobody said we would go to zero oil use. We need oil for plastics, and for additives for tires, insulation, and scores of other uses.
But using LESS is a goal.
An EV can be refueled by a hydroelectric dam, solar, wind, geo-thermal, nuclear, or any other electrical generating method. The car or truck demands gasoline or diesel. That’s a high purity item
Add to the advances in AI and autopilot, navigation, and self-parking. Imagine going to the airport and telling your car to go home and park in the garage. Then have your car pick you up on your return
Or being at work and sending the car to pick up the kids and take them to school. Reaction times that are 100x faster than human, never get tired and respond to ice, and see icy patches we can’t. It’s coming
Some industries will fundamentally change. Long distance truckers will likely go away. I predict that long distance trucks will be robots, that will stop outside major cities and pick up a “local pilot” to take the truck into the final destination.
Will oil demand go to zero? Probably not. But will the people who want to kill us be forced to start eating sand? I sure hope so