How much oil is needed to manufacture 1 billion tires?
Christmas decorations are the least of our problems.
Tires are really the least of our problems.
Lets assume the energy is produced by alternative means, that leaves us with 5 gallons of oil per car tire.
That's 5 billion gallons of oil for 1 billion tires.
There's around 35 gallons of oil per barrel. That's 142,857,143 barrels of oil.
The US produces roughly 9.5 million barrels of crude per day. It would take around 15 days to make 1 billion new tires if 100% of US oil was dedicated to the cause.
Now that I've done the maths, it doesn't seem like such a huge problem. So I concede to your point.
Huh. I didn't know that gasoline-car-tires are incompatible with electric-car-tires. That's too bad, because if they weren't, you could continue using the tires from your previous car on your new car.
Long gone are the days when most vehicles on the road had 15" rims.