It has happened with all resources. I won’t assume your intent but you invoked oil so I do want to point out the difference. In a battery lithium is not consu

It has happened with all resources. I won’t assume your intent but you invoked oil so I do want to point out the difference. In a battery lithium is not consumed completely after every use like oil. The lithium in a battery is used hundreds or thousands of times. When the pack is dead it can still be downcycled and eventually the individual cells recycled. With the lithium being recovered and reused. Yes, there is or will be a “lithium rush”. But it will look a lot more like gold or aluminum than oil.