how do you feel about electric performance cars?

69_340_GTS said
You will always have to drill for oil and gas. It will always need refining. Because: everything, including that "clean" electric car needs lubrication. More and more vehicle parts are being made from plastics. Actually, there will be even more use of plastics in the future. We still need fertilizers, asphalt, pharmaceuticals, rubber, paint, waxes, and all sorts of other chemicals. After you make all those compounds from the crude oil you're left with a bunch of other stuff. Stuff we burn as fuel. What are the oil companies going to do with all that fuel if it isn't going to get burned for transportation?
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That's an interesting chart. I never thought about it that way.
I don't think anyone said that we will (or should) stop refining oil completely though.

The quantity of refined oil will absolutely go down as electric powered personal transportation grows...but you're right that we will still have good uses for oil.

I don't believe that they necessarily use more plastics than conventional cars and they absolutely don't use more oil for lubrication. Am I wrong about that?