I know that's a very emotive, convincing bogeyman. But like Obama used to say, "truth has a funny way of catching up"
All I'm saying is, the day a Tesla et. al become significantly more affordable than a Honda Civic, with the ability for seamless cross country travel, is the day one can accurately claim no dependency on oil
I’ve seen this argument made before and don’t understand why seamless cross country travel should be the requirement for people traveling in personal cars (like Tesla, Honda, etc). How many people need to seamlessly travel more than a few hundred miles regularly? It might be better to optimize for the majority of use cases, which, I suspect, do not require this.
you're 1) arguing with yourself and 2) pretending like there's no tradeoff between profit and safety.