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1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles (cleantechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

then even more oil would have been used

if the oil is in the ground, it can't have been used.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you think we literally use oil as we dig it up with no buffer?

Or that oil extraction amount isn't being constantly adjusted based on demand by every entity in charge of it?

Or that if more ICE vehicles were on the road more oil would be needed?

These are all very basic concepts

[–] federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i think there is no way to prove we would have dug up and burned any more oil than we did since we can't prove a counterfactual. what we do know is, despite an increased use of electric vehicles, oil extraction increased.