Man this piece contains so many obviously wrong and dishonest arguments mixed in with a defeatist attitude. It even manages to contradict itself. It simultane

Man this piece contains so many obviously wrong and dishonest arguments mixed in with a defeatist attitude. It even manages to contradict itself. It simultaneously argues that it takes 3x the number of workers to produce a battery pack as it does to produce a engine and then says that the switch to EV's will decimate jobs. It claims it takes 100 barrels of oil to build a battery pack capable of storing 1 barrel of oil worth of energy implying that's a bad thing as if you use the battery once and then dispose of it. Good quality lithium ion batteries last for 5,000 cycles and Tesla claims their current battery technology should last up to 500k miles implying something like 15,000 cycles. A barrel of oil makes roughly 20 gallons of gasoline so if the 100 barrels of oil to make a battery pack is true that sounds pretty amazing to me. On the mining thing Lithium mining is some of the cleanest mining in the world because you can extract it from water pumped in and out of the mine. The list goes on.