>>1693804The drive to get everyone to drive electric cars is because the last couple generations of cars are too reliable and people aren't upgrading to newer ones enough, and with the economy already in trouble, keeping the demand for cars high helps prevent total collapse. Of course lots of plastic will be needed to make the new cars and to fuel the ships moving everything around, and to fuel the lithium mining equipment, and the trucks that are shipping all that ore around. The fact is that first world energy consumption isn't the only driver of o&g profits, and by the time many Americans and euros are driving electric cars XOM and friends will own a large portion of the worlds lithium and cobalt mining operations and hold patents on a lot of related tech. XOM is one of the biggest investors in solar
