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> It is surprisingly difficult to get numbers on how much oil is used to extract, refine and transport oil.

Not to mention the socialized costs of all the wars, military spending and human lives spent to secure stable sources of fossil fuels. If you actually break down the numbers and applied some basic ethics, I doubt fossil fuels have been cost competitive for decades.

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It's funny how the USA feels like it has to get militarily involved to guarantee something that the producers are willing and happy to sell. Even moreso when you understand that the USA has plenty of oil itself available.

It's almost as if they want an excuse for running a massive military.

We will still have those same wars after EV's. Oil has been a good incentive, but let's face it - the U.S. loves us some wars.

<snark, i'm totally against military aggression>

We're already looking at the human cost of some of the components needed for the batteries, like lithium and cobalt. That's what we'll be fighting wars over after we exhaust the supply of oil.

Lithium is considerably more ubiquitous than crude oil, however. And cobalt in batteries is already on the decline, we won't be using it much longer. Heck, most EVs sold today don't use any cobalt at all.

And its recyclable

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