“In California, they’re going to have to shut down gas stations.”
Don’t be giving them any ideas, now. But of course, they already have this written into the next phase of their “rollout” of the future strategies.
Battery-powered EVs are a dead-end, a niche vehicle at best, suitable only for a very limited range of applications. They shall NEVER have a favorable cost/benefit ratio, when all the costs are factored in, including subsidies. Even more of a vanity than custom jewelry, they have only minimal salvage value at best, and many will become landfill, as no other options for disposal are feasible
Dead EV’s can be used to build a fence on southern border. I like to look at things cup half full.
In the modern era people have been pumping oil out of the ground since around 1860.
That is well over 150 years.
Today and in recent years the world consumption of oil has been approximately 90 million barrels of crude oil a day.
That’s 32,850,000,000 (32.85 BILLION) barrels per year.
(an industry standard barrel contains approximately 45 gallons of crude oil)
About 45 percent of a typical barrel of crude oil is refined into gasoline.
An additional 29 percent is refined to diesel fuel.
The remaining oil is used to make plastics and other products
Will the lithium and rare earth mineral mines produce sufficient material to make enough vehicle batteries
to replace 74% of the energy produced by the oil pumped every day?
Will those mines still be producing 150 yeas from now?
PS - Think of this:
The Greenies are always carrying on about “renewable energy”,
But none of the lithium or rare earth minerals rquired for modern EV batteries is renewable.
And my bet is that those mineral mines will run dry a long time befor the oild wells dry up.
Saudi Arabia alone has been pumping oil for 85 years and is still producing 4.5 BILLION barrels a year with proven reserves of more than 220 years at that rate.