I get the point, but the way the article is written does it more harm than good. Way too cluttered with ungraspable large numbers. Has the author never heard of percents and proportions? Maybe a graph or two? The endless stream of largely redundant and confusing examples reads like a high pressure sales pitch.
The kWh consumed by the petroleum extraction industry could push a whole lot of EVs down the road a whole lot of miles. More, even, if those EVs were hyper efficient. Add a meaningful proportion or two to put everything in context. That would have been quite enough said. Shame the article didn’t get there.
The average US car goes about 25 miles on 1 gallon of gas.
The average EV goes about 25 miles on just the ELECTRICITY used to make 1 gallon of gas from crude oil, not even counting the energy to extract that oil.
In other words, if the entire US switched to EVs there would be LESS load on the grid, & a 100% reduction in the load on the environment.
I get the point, but the way the article is written does it more harm than good. Way too cluttered with ungraspable large numbers. Has the author never heard of percents and proportions? Maybe a graph or two? The endless stream of largely redundant and confusing examples reads like a high pressure sales pitch.
The kWh consumed by the petroleum extraction industry could push a whole lot of EVs down the road a whole lot of miles. More, even, if those EVs were hyper efficient. Add a meaningful proportion or two to put everything in context. That would have been quite enough said. Shame the article didn’t get there.
Here's a simple direct comparison:
The average US car goes about 25 miles on 1 gallon of gas.
The average EV goes about 25 miles on just the ELECTRICITY used to make 1 gallon of gas from crude oil, not even counting the energy to extract that oil.
In other words, if the entire US switched to EVs there would be LESS load on the grid, & a 100% reduction in the load on the environment.