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Moving to electric is not some optional thing that you can choose not to do. Fossil fuels are a finite resource. They will run out at some point.

We can either make the shift now or we'll have to do it later. Much better to do change early and invest in it early.

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Strictly speaking fossil fuels being finite does not mean we have to move to electric vehicles. We could switch to 'green' hydrogen, biofuels, or synthetic fuels. We'd still switch to renewables (or maybe nuclear), just not necessarily to electric.

When I was 12 my school books said we would run out of oil in 20 years

I’m older than 32 now

When you were 12 it probably said the life expectancy was X years. If you reached X+1 years would you conclude that you would live forever?

Do you believe there is an unlimited amount of oil in the world?

At least until the end of our respective lifetimes