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Originally Posted by justinsain
Let's say that today it takes 1,000 barrels of oil to support the automotive industry. For stuff like building the cars and trucking parts and whatever like you listed above.
Let's say that today 1,000,000 barrels of oil were actually used in operating all the vehicles.
So they perfect an electric car.
Now it still takes 1,000 barrels of oil to support the automotive industry just in a different way and you no longer need to burn 1,000,000 barrels of oil to operate the cars because they are electric.
That's where the cutback in oil consumption comes into play and there is no way we would be using the same amount off oil by going to an electric source as we did with a gasoline engine.
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Yeah, I get that. But you're not solving the problem. The problem being, oil. Whether consumption is reduced or not is sort of irrelevant. You still need just as much oil every step of the way, up to and including the "refueling" of an electric car. Electricity isn't made from thin air. You might be reducing the quantity of oil needed by a little bit, but even if everyone on the planet was driving an electric car and there were no more petroleum fueled vehicles at all, we are still just as dependent on oil as before the electric cars. We've changed nothing.