That’s got nothing to do with these total energy calculations. When burning gas in a car you’re converting less than 1/5th of the energy in the crude oil to actually move your car. A wind powered EV is closer to 4/5th of the energy from wind ending up moving your car.

Not only is the EV itself more efficient, so is each stage before that more efficient. Something like 1/3 to 1/2 of all CO2 emissions from ICE cars occur before gasoline makes it to the car. Thus, driving an EV lowers the total energy needed without actually reducing how much people are driving.

PS: Total energy calculations are fairly arbitrary because it’s ultimately sunlight powering things, but that’s also true of fossil fuels just at really unbelievably low efficiency so that parts generally ignored.

Please explain. I keep hearing this meme, but the arguments don't make sense. For instance, people will say things like, "New World Order wants us all to use electric vehicles so they can limit our movement!" This is backwards, though, because electric cars can plug in anywhere, but gasoline stations are much more centralized and easy to regulate. If I were the Global Elite, I wouldn't want people producing power on their own rooftops, storing it in batteries, and driving around with it. Green technologies seem to lower costs and increase resilience for the average person. What am I missing?

This deserves to be flagged. Steep insinuating claims without any credible sources or arguments.

@dang

US life expectancy is declining unfortunately, but for unrelated reasons.