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Germany is firing up coal plants to heat people because not enough wind and turbines need electricity to heat themselves so they dont freeze up and the cold snap has basically covered all solar making them useless even with heated panels. They are net negative energy producers, but I guess it counts as green energy.
Electric cars are inevitable. Doesn't mean the oil industry will die out because of it.
More than 6000+ products are derived from oil, including many of the parts in these electric cars.
Have you even driven an electric vehicle as a professional? They are fun until you need to recharge when clients want to throw gobs of money at you for immediate service. Communist China forces professional drivers to use electric cars as a means of keeping them poor and dependant on government handouts. Pure electric car are toys meant to showcase wealth and virtue. If this was ever actually about emissions, the push would be for plug in hybrid vehicles with nuclear power plants.
Not to mention that 15% is basically a component to just about everything around you. Cutting vehicular demand is just going to shift usage else. China hates liquid freedom. God forbid anyone live outside the confines of what can be easily surveiled and controlled
Start with the 15%. It's not hard to figure out if you actually use that tiny brain. Petroleum products are in everything. That phone your holding for example! Retake every science class and actually pass this time. Don't forget the economics class so you can figure out how to provide enough lithium for you magic global fleet of 500km cars. 100km in the cold with a 3 hour recharge time is common for anyone not driving a money bags Telsa, and those toys are still double the cost of a good hybrid. Not to mention the cost of recharing the bloody things is equivalent to the gas costs of 4 cylinder passenger car. Have you ever even recharged an electric car? Half the rapid charging stations are broken and they don't get fixed for months. Sometimes you have to wait upwards of an hour in line for an opportunity to change because the next closest charging station is over 20 miles away. Only a fool with deep pockets would choose a pure electric for work
Have fun fucking trees while waiting on that magic lithium supply for billions of cars to drive your 500km. I have plenty of faith that your ilk will work toward banning petroleum and nuclear. The most brain dead movement on the planet has to be the Captain Planet Weeaboos and their war on science. 2004, hurumph, it's current year. And CNN International and my commie professor say Electric perfect. Oil bad.