>>1402826>not relevant, gasoline and passenger vehicles is the smallest user of oil.Bullshit! Every source I could find purports that gasoline accounts for between 40 and 50 percent of global petroleum consumption. If you would care to dispute this, by all means provide to me whatever information you believe me to lack should you possess such.
>Oil is used to make fertilizer, industrial chemicals, plastics, tar for roads, and oil powerplants, airplanes and powers cargo ships on the sea.Correct! But while some of those absolutely require petroleum to function in their current form (fertilizer, certain industrial processes, aviation fuel), we absolutely can affect change in other areas. Notably, we can move away from burning oil for power or heat. We can invest in more robust passenger rail to replace flights which do not cross large bodies of water. That sort of thing. Significant reductions are very possible. Also, depending on how R&D shakes out we may eventually see heavier machinery move away from diesel, but this is purely speculative on my part and not practical in the near or medium term. But that would also, y'know, take diesel off the board.
Anyways, my central point of "shifting away from EVs would dramatically impact Iranian and Saudi Arabian economic power in a way that would weaken their leadership perhaps to the point of endangering their lives" is still very merited. Stripping away nearly half of demand would do that, y'know? Petroleum would still be a useful and valuable resource, just dramatically less so.
>>1402955>I will never by a car the feds can turn off.Anon, you can be cut off from fuel just as easily as you can from electrical power. But you can at least produce electricity at home through a myriad of means - but what would you do if the feds start restricting oil supplies, refine your own in your backyard? Ludicrous.
