One more thing. The article got the attention of the pro EV community which tried to fuzzy up the math contained in the opinion in the comments section. There is some validity however.
Lets explore There is cost and energy placed in the drilling refining and transportation of oil to make gasoline. True.
However, do not forget that the scale up for implementation and mainstreaming of EV's does not exist.
All of the infrastructure, logistics, and current economy for oil exists now and functions quite well.
So once you build in the scale up cost and the economic chaos that will be created by a sudden shift to EV infrastructure the price to implement takes on orbital level cost implications.
The conclusion is that when you apply the argument evenly to both sides oil wins again and wins conclusively.
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