Right, but the oil companies are still making and selling it. Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 17, 2017, at 7:17 PM, OK Don via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Tractors, combines, trains, and most airplanes don't burn gasoline. They > burn Diesel or heavier oil, or Jet-A. The general aviation fleet that still > burns gasoline uses such a small percentage of the total gasoline > production that we're still buying 100LL , yes - LEAD - gasoline because > there has not been enough demand to warrant the development of a no lead > 100 octane aviation fuel. There are a couple of attempts at that now, but > we're still 2 -5 years out from being able to buy fuel for our Cessnas that > won't foul the plugs while taxing to the runway at the airport pumps. (I > haul my fuel from the local no alcohol auto fuel source in a 55 gallon > barrel). > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> Well they don't seem to take into account there still won't be electric >> tractors, electric combines, electric trains, electric airplanes. Plastics >> and many many other products are still made from petroleum products. Also, >> how do they figure they are going to charge those electric cars? >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Jul 17, 2017, at 1:28 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> ELECTRIC VEHICLESOil companies are increasingly nervousPublished: Monday, >>> July 17, 2017 >>> >>> Oil producers are waking up to the long-term threat posed by electric >>> vehicles. >>> >>> By 2040, the rising share of EVs could drag down oil demand by 8 million >>> barrels, more than the combined production of Iraq and Iran, according >> to a >>> recent analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. >>> >>> That's based on OPEC and oil companies hiking their EV forecasts within >> the >>> last year to substantially higher levels. Exxon Mobil Corp. boosted its >>> 2040 EV fleet size estimate to about 100 million from 65 million. BP >> PLC's >>> prediction shot up 40 percent, to 100 million EVs by 2035. And Statoil >> ASA, >>> Norway's state oil company, thinks EVs will comprise 30 percent of new >>> sales by 2030. >>> >>> And OPEC, which two years ago predicted EVs would reach only 2 percent >>> market share by 2040, has raised that estimate to 12 percent. >>> >>> While oil producers are less bullish on EVs' potential than automakers, >>> their revisions signal a consensus that EVs are poised for drastic >>> expansion — due largely to falling costs in vehicle-grade lithium-ion >>> batteries. >>> >>> Electric cars will outsell conventional models by 2040, with 530 million >> on >>> the road accounting for one-third of the world's cars, according to >>> Bloomberg New Energy Finance (Jess Shankleman, Bloomberg >>> <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-14/big- >> oil-just-woke-up-to-the-threat-of-rising-electric-car-demand>, >>> July 14). *— AAA* >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > > > -- > OK Don > > *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of > our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain > > "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who > learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence > for themselves." > > WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* > 2013 F150, 18 mpg > 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg > 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
