Many people seem very keen on looking at the entire pipeline of EV, including mining the lithium and any other material, purifying the brine, etc, and also acco

Many people seem very keen on looking at the entire pipeline of EV, including mining the lithium and any other material, purifying the brine, etc, and also accounting how electricity is produced, making worst case assumption and so on. Which is a clearly acceptable viewpoint, to which I subscribe. A few of those people, though, do not look at the ICE pipeline nearly as closely, and promptly forget how oil is extracted, refined and transported around the world. The comparison should be fair. Spoiler alert: Oil doesn't end up looking so nice.