The downside of electric vehicles.

[Spongebob]

OLB doesn't know shit and its sad he's so ignorant and confused.  It will take decades for ICE based automobiles to completely disappear from the roads because there are so many of them and they are still being mass produced today.  It may take even longer for diesel vehicles to go away because they are extremely efficient and long lasting.  Not to mention that refineries won't be going anywhere in the next 100 years because oil is the base material for thousands of products, many of which may take centuries to replace with other materials.  Even if we stopped refining oil today, you could still convert ICE cars to burn various combinations of alcohol, veggie oil or other biofuels.  You can bet enthusiasts will maintain this activity for at least a century after EVs are dominant.  So stop it with this bullshit about poor people.  You don't care about poor people anyway.

Side note, when you refine crude oil you aren't creating material so much as dividing up material using the boiling point of the many organic compounds found in crude oil.  Some of this stuff is barely usable and essentially waste, such as butane.  Remember butane lighters?  Because smoking is so much less popular now, there's more butane in oil that can be sold as fuel for lighters and there's not a lot of other uses for this stuff.  It generally gets mixed in with gasoline in the winter but in the summer it's boiling point is too low for that so they just store it in tanks until they switch to the winter mix.  Sometimes they just burn it in flares.

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Downside, I had a silent one almost run me down in a parking lot.

I'll second this comment.

When a vehicle is 'Running on electric' they are damn near silent.
While possibly good for people living besides road ways.
Where such vehicles and pedestrians mingle? It might actually cause issues.

Cheers.

Not at work.

Suggestion:  open your eyes and look around.