Not a particularly scholarly or insightful article Derek
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1. Energy companies don't give a flying fig what the energy source is. They're in it for the profit (as any self respecting company would be). If tomorrow's energy source du jour turns out to be macadamias, Chevron would be buying huge swathes of farmland growing the thing.
80% of America's electricity including those for EV's
is produced by fossil fuels and nuclear. Renewables sit at 20% (and will probably sit there unless a) someone makes the economics of hideously expensive and woefully un-durable solar cells and wind turbines more sensible b) makes the storage mechanisms more energy dense.
2. The title of the article is misleading. Someone might explain to Mr Kessler the difference between Stored Energy as opposed to Primary Energy. Electricity isn't an intrinsic power source in itself unlike for example oil, which undergoes a comparatively simpler process of refinement to make it ready to be consumed to produce energy. Unless you're an electric eel or a lightning bolt. Good luck utilizing those.
3. "Big Oil coming for EV's" is a ridiculous statement and is click-bait. Big Oil will come for anything that makes them money. They must be sitting in their boardrooms laughing at how virtue signalling greenies think they're no longer consuming fossil fuels with their BEV's.
I miss the days when Mobile Nations had insightful pieces that were well thought out...now, it's just easily debunked click-bait. And I'm not even an engineer or scientist
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