>>16529461
>If energy generation for EVs uses fossil fuels, how are EVs more energy efficient and environmentally friendly?

Converting fossil fuels into electrical energy, that is then accessed on a universal grid, creates efficiency by creating more universal standards and delivery systems for energy consumption. Electrical energy for instance is infinitely less expensive, and safer, to transport and deliver to consumers than gasoline. There's also an argument to make that expanding what the electrical grid can do would be a carte blanche 'good' thing since our modern economy depends more and more on the growth and expansion of energy development.

Granted, the whole idea is to *not* use fossil fuels to generate the energy, but if you had to it would still be better than burning them in the vehicle. If only for the sake of improving air-quality in dense urban locations.

>>16529641
>oil will never be phased out

That's right, oil *will* never be phased out.
The entire automotive industry could be electric, or hydrogen, or perhaps even steam or nuclear, and the oil industry would still be necessary for fertilizers, plastic products, certain medicines, industrial and chemical fuels & lubricants, asphalt, and so forth. There's a million and two other uses and purposes for petroleum products that don't involve burning it - if anything, the longer we spend burning oil the less reserves we'll have in the future for it's other uses.

There is no good reason, especially for anyone in the sciences, to be so emotionally attached and invested in insisting that oil remain the primary source of energy. It's just energy. There's other sources of energy.

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