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Originally posted by moorookamick: ↑

Given that we import $44 billion/p/a petroleum products and $44 billion a year
vehicles, the conversion to EVs will not , on aggregate ($88 billion a year combined)
greatly change our imports.

Even though EVs use no petroleum ( except minimal lube), their 50% higher
price tag will negate the import fuel savings, IMO.

This is why we should be developing component manufacturing for EVs now
so that we can engage with global supply chains and given that base components
are mostly manufacture automated , our higher labour inputs are no longer an issue;
just capital for machinery/automation, raw materials & energy of which we have
in abundance.

EVs still use a shitload of steel, aluminium, copper, battery materials and synthetics.
So rather than spruik the merits of EVs , we should be spruiking the merits of
EV component manufacture here for global supply chains and leave the labour intensive
assembly to the 3rd world.

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PS: The rise of global powers historically has been via manufacturing,
not farming and digging holes in the ground!
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