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We were talking about energy generation and we were also talking about oil use.
Yeah about how electric cars could reduce our need of oil.
You haven't shown any correlation between the two. The price of solar and wind have been reduced by increased subsidy, not a lessening of manufacturing cost.
The price, without tax credits, has gone down on solar panels by 1/5 since I started pricing them 5 years ago. When I bought them last year they were only $1 per watt, all while the price of gasoline went up.
Not "so many of us", a few of us. And what we generate is nowhere near our need. So the vast majority rely upon transmitted power from a distant location.
The point is, that is changing as more people like myself install affordable onsite systems.
First, that 49% is a little high, regardless, you're trading one shortage for another. Electric cars rely upon rare earth metals that internal combustion engines don't. Let's just take ONE of them - lithium. Are you of the impression that lithium is of unlimited supply or renewable?
The 49% is from government statistics. With new research, we may find other more abundant materials that work better than lithium. That's the point of research.
Affordable oil is finite as well and burning it for transportation is damaging the environment.