At
the time Chemistry was part of the cirruculum which I was required to
study, I neither used to like it nor used to find it easy, which
unfortunately does not allow me to comment on the scarcity of oil
with freedom. Having said that, I would like to believe that oil
somehow happens to be an organic compound which happen to be
regenerative by their very nature. Considering that, and the extra
components which are needed for efficient batteries, humans were
previously mining for oil and the usual metals – iron, aluminum -
in large quantities; now include lithium and the associated cousins
into that list and consider the machinery which is used to mine these
materials, which does not sip fuel, rather drinks it like a person
who has been thirsty for a couple of days.
Based
on all this, I really do not know what to make of all this. Whether
to appreciate an effort to curb emissions, or to just criticize an
effort to be politically correct and most probably nothing else.
