All fair points, though I would argue that the main reason we transport oild sint because it’s cheap, it’s because we kind of have to. You can generate electricity pretty much anywhere, oil has to come from specific holes in the ground.

But yea, I don’t think we transport oil just because it’s cheap, it’s also nessisary, at least to an extent, as long as we depend on it. Gas stations, tanker trucks, oil pipelines, ect were all originally built because we needed those things in order to make the things that use them go, including most of the things that bring the finished oil products to us.

And yes, it would be costly and impractical to move uncharged batteries back to where they are charged.

If anything, I think this comversation highlights the absurdity of modern oil infrastructure when compared to electric.

With electricity you can build machines that sustainably harvest it, keep the power generation away from the things it’s used for, and transmit it efficiency at a low cost(albeit not overseas). While on the other hand, oil must be mined in a specific location, transported, refined, transported again, and burned at the appliance, never to be used again. I know I’m preaching to the chior here but I really think the only thing holding renewable electric power back is politics, like oil subsidies and the like.