Money does talk. We've had recent past presidents whose families money came from Texas oil, and others in the past as well. The switchover to electric vehicle is happening much slower than it should be as big oil money to politicians , and from investors, keeps the electric transportation industry from reaching its full potential. Politicians supported by oil companies will never vote for bills to add charging stations to highways from DOT funds so your electric car can't take you far. And somebody's got to supply that power. Maybe the electric utility companies can take on the oil companies for the market share of fuel/power supply. Of course whomever has more money will win that influence fight..
Nothing to do with the oil company's, the 2 main obstacles to electric car development (Besides the public who are very suspicious of them) are batteries (Manufactures cannot get enough of them as it takes time to ramp up production and build new factory's) as an example Mercedes has had to halve its intended production of the ECQ model due to not enough batteries available, plus it also takes time to build up the fast charging infrastructure so that people can charge up their cars when they go on a run. (Remember the ICE car has been around for over 100 years so garages are plentiful)
BTW. Texas is one of the biggest oil states, yet next to California it has one of the largest investments in renewable energy.
Also since 1990 the amount of CO2 produced by the US has only increased by 0.4%.
Bill
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