It seems to me lately the number of people pushing anti-EV or anti-battery narratives is increasing.
I keep stumbling upon more and more social media posts where people seem to reach the conclusion that EVs are either a scam or not viable. Mostly they use one or more of the following opinions to justify that:
- the energy used to recharge batteries comes from fossil fuels
- the metals used to make the batteries are mined by kids in the congo
- the total carbon footprint of an EV is higher than an ICE
And other similar stuff that i dont rlly wanna get into.
The thing that I dont understand is how can narratives like these keep gaining traction when the only, ONLY thing we know 100% for certain about all this is that oil is going to eventually run out (and not so late according to current estimates). How can anybody believe it would not be beneficial for us to start working in alternatives to oil NOW instead of… Idk waiting until it almost runs out and then we start killing each other for the last drops of it or smth.
I tried to talk some people into this point of view but somehow I cant convince anybody who already thinks the other way this shit makes me so frustrated sometimes.
Oil is not going to run out anytime soon. We are not switching to EVs because oil might run out, it’s because we can’t keep burning oil at this rate and expect the Earth to be liveable for us in 50 years, it’s as easy as that, it doesn’t require a further explanation.
The estimates I read keep saying we’ll run out around 2060. Plus the chaos will not start once it runs out but a while before that once the prices start getting crazy. I might be very well mistaken but if you look at the insane amounts of oil we are currently using on the daily it kinda makes sense. Take ukraine for example can you imagine the amount of gasoline it takes to keep a war like that running, its pretty massive.
Well, of course there’s a limited amount of oil in the world so we’ll run out of it at some point, but the estimates are always based on reserves, and reserves change based on the price. If we start “running out” the price will go up and more oil will be available to extract at those prices, so we’ll have more reserves and more years of it. The amount of oil we are burning has been quite stable for the last few years in about 100 million barrels per day, not a lot changed because of the war (you need a massive amount of gasoline to keep the billions of cars in the world running).
In any case, if we keep burning oil up to the point where we start running out of it, the world would already be in a much terrible situation, that’s why we need to start now and with the right justification (we need to stop burning fossil fuels, no matter how much of them there is).