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One might similarly note the awe-inspiring destructive power demonstrated by tanker trucks of fuel catching fire and causing interstate bridges to collapse.

https://archive.ph/VadwU : Tanker Truck Fire Collapses Bay Area Overpass

https://archive.ph/4INYw : I-95 Overpass Collapses in Philadelphia After a Tanker Fire

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Gasoline or diesel fires can be extinguished.

Lithium ion battery fires less so.

Surly you don’t mean to imply that a sufficiently large lithium ion battery fire couldn’t burn down a bridge?

You're speculating about something that hasn't happened, using something that doesn't exist; no body is driving batteries large enough to destroy a bridge about.

They are driving liquid fuel tankers that can do that around regularly.

Also consider that as battery tech improves new chemistries lower the risk of fire even more. E.g. sodium batteries are very stable right now and solid state will improve that further. There's no way you can make petrol less flammable.

You're going to have to face facts, battery powered vehicles are safer than petrol powered one.

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