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Originally Posted by IliketoPuck
Tinordi. Forest through the trees.
It blows my mind that when oil demand is mentioned, immediately people point to electric vehicles as the source of the end of oil.
Oil demand connected to consumer vehicle usage (small cars, suv, etc.) is only 20% of total demand. Even if literally every single car on the road was replaced with an EV, over 80% of demand for oil would remain. Not to mention, those batteries have to be charged by some form of energy. I'm guessing most people aren't going to have solar panels or wind turbines on their roof. So, fossil fuels then.
Will EV usage increase? Of course. I'm not so naive as to think otherwise.
But to just point to EVs as the source of the demise of oil is disingenuous, and does not paint the whole picture. The same thing goes for pointing to solar panels, or wind, or any other renewable energy source. There are meaningful limiting factors to all of those energy sources that always conveniently get glossed over in the frenzy to be environmental boy scouts.
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So you agree that EVs could account for a reduction of 20% oil demand. But then you strawman his post into an argument that EVs will be an end to oil?
No one is talking that oil demand will dry up next year. But I guess you'd rather just bury your head in the sand and ignore the very real changes happening in energy use around the world. Let's try to discredit everyone who thinks demand is going to wane with made up arguments.
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