Personally I think TaaS will be more disruptive to the jobs held by drivers than it will be to hydrocarbon demand. A bunch of low skill, disenfranchised, idle men is a huge problem. A much larger problem than Alberta finding new customers for its hydrocarbon. THAT problem gets solved by addtessing 3 points:
1. working out a solution for royalty sharing within all of western Canada;
2. refining things sensibly for both environmental safety and revenue optimization, and;
3. developing proper marine loading, monitoring and response infrastructure
There is zero reason an automated car also needs to be an electric vehicle.
EVs for personal transport make sense in areas with high population density. Not because of the limitations of the vehicle but because of the limitations of the grid infrastructure.
People also seem to forget there are still 1.5 billion people on the planet with virtually zero access to energy. Unless developed nations are just freely giving them these expensive, low EROI technologies, they're never going to be able to adopt it.
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