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Once oil is used only marginally for fuel and heating, the demand will be a lot less (minus 80% or thereabouts) and going after difficult to extract sources might indeed not be economical but also not needed to satisfy demand (unless this happens very very late).

During the transition there could be cost spikes at demand levels that are awkward to fill without expensive resources, though.



Motor véhicule is 50% and aviation 5%, idk about heating.

So we assume that we replace all explosion engine by EV. Correct?


Mostly replace, yes, there is also electricity generation via oil to be replaced.


And we talking about individual cars & trucks. Correct ? Not mass transportation. Can we build that much batteries, lithium wise ?




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