> Electric vehicles were supposed to be the car of the future because we were running out of oil — until we weren’t. The thing is, we’ve always been running ou

> Electric vehicles were supposed to be the car of the future because we were running out of oil — until we weren’t. The thing is, we’ve always been running out of oil — the rate at which oil is being produced is near zero. Our rate of extraction may fluctuate, but it is a finite resource. Someday, the amount of economically extractable oil will go to zero. I’m not sure when that is, but it will happen.