Oh goody. These are some of my favorite to debunk.

1. Yes, the energy currently comes (mostly) from fossil fuels. But it doesn’t need to. There exists carbon free electricity and the grid is getting less and less carbon dependent all the time. Gasoline cars will always require gasoline.
2. Yes. And it is a fucking tragedy. Cobalt is also used in gasoline production. But somehow the critics gloss over this. Child labor is abhorrent and should be opposed on its own, not under a spurious anti-ev fig leaf. Also, cobalt need not be produced with child labor. And many newer battery chemistries limit or even eliminate cobalt all together. A final note, many will deliberately conflate cobalt and lithium. They are not the same and do not have the same child labor concerns.
3. Yes. But, in addition to the point outlined in (1), above; once you have driven about 20k miles on the current grid the balance swings back to the EV being better. YMMV, some production facilities are greener than others (see Volvo EX30).

That is bullshit. And has been for decades. First, the gas tax only goes for Federal and State HIGHWAY maintenance. If it doesn’t have a little shield-type logo on the sign, it is funded out of the local general fund. Second, the gas tax isn’t sufficient for even that limited subset of road maintenance. Third, taxing gas used to be a good proxy for how much the given vehicle was damaging the road. But that proxy is no longer as relevant as fuel economy has increased. Fourth, even taxing gas was still a good proxy, replacing it with a fixed fee is a poor solution. Granny who drives to church every Sunday is being charged the same as Sally Sidehustle who drives a couple hundred miles a day as part of their Uber/Lyft/DoorDash trifecta.

Volvo.