And Russian zinc and Russian nickle.
EVs require 13 minerals from 13 supply chains running through 60 countries. Half of them go through Russia.
“And Russian zinc and Russian nickle.”
And don’t forget the Russian platinum group metals. Hard to make a catalytic converter without them...and those metals are expensive NOW.
Of course, the metal sitting under our cars in those converters is “free”..., ask the people who have been stealing them with impunity.
Those cars OPEC and Putin want you to buy?
Running them directly funds Russian and Muslim armies.
It gives Putin roughly $350M per day to pay Chechen and Arab Muslim fighters to rape and murder Ukrainian Christians.
Oil is a global fungible product whose priced is based on global supply and demand. Not local supply and demand.
There is no “My American based gasoline is exempt” from supporting this evil.
The purchase of a gallon of gasoline anywhere in the world supports the price of a barrel of oil everywhere in the world.