Of course it might have something to do with the fact that these cars do 0-60 in 2 seconds. Just a hunch.

That is at least partly true. On your first point, I believe the first Bush truly was exceptionally smart - but the second Bush was a hapless potato head....

There was a great children’s story, “I’m a pencil, and nobody knows how I’m made!” - which illustrated your point.

We can manufacture an infinite amount of clean burning carbon neutral gas and diesel synthetics already, it just costs more than extracting and refining petroleum today. However, once commercial solar drops about another 50%, it will be cost competitive with petroleum AND has the benefit that any country with sea and…

If Lithium becomes a bit more expensive, we can extract it from seawater.  search kaust filter lithium.

Not only drilling, but the entire seabed is covered in a layer of deposits already dried and concentrated - so they will literally be shoveling up the surface and processing it for Lithium.

Who says future batteries will use Lithium? Besides, we can get all the Lithium we could ever want from sea water - it just costs a bit more. Search Kaust filter lithium.