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Re:Electric cars make up 54% of cars sold in Norway in 2020 by cbmuser on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @10:50AM (#25646744)
In the US, 68% of the oil is used for transportation:

> https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...

So, yeah, that argument is actually valid.

Re:Electric cars make up 54% of cars sold in Norway in 2020 by vonmoltke on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @11:43AM (#25647323)
As stated on that page, motor gasoline was 45% of US petroleum consumption, so 23% of that 68% wouldn't be touched by electric cars. There's also a relatively small amount that ends up in small engines[1], but I'm willing to write that off as a rounding error.

[1] Side note: I'm impressed by the explosion of high-quality electric replacements for small gasoline engines over the past few years. All my power yard tools are electric; the only gasoline engines we own our the car and the generator.