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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by greglindahl on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:12PM (#21445237)
> If you extrapolate their upward line forward

Extrapolations are a bad idea for "tipping point" kinds of curves. Electric vehicles are steadily improving, and as they become better in niches (like high performance cars) the curve can change to be nothing like the extrapolation.

Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by 0xffff2 on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:49PM (#21445680)
Look at it a different way. How many years is the average car on the road? Even if we banned the sale of new ICE vehicles today, it would still take well over a decade for them to filter out of operation.
Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by WorldMaker on Monday November 04, 2019 @04:07PM (#21446514)
But there are very real, very possible existential crises that could massively impact the ICE fleet and filter out existing vehicles faster the usual replacement rate. To obvious examples: the cost of gas rises fast enough, and/or entire gas chains go out of business making stations hard to find.