Imagine, if you will, the day a semi truck load of EV batteries, being transported by an EV tractor, experiences the tractor batteries bursting into flames, igniting the freight.
How much damage is That going to do?

Doesn't look too bad from here. A drunk on a ship. It got fixed up. The bean counters at ,was it BP? They wanted to keep their heavy mud,so they started pumping it out, replacing it with sea water. Even a rough neck with a year in the field knows better. It's my understanding that several people refused, were fired, until someone took the job and did the stupid things. And they had crap blow out preventing equipment.
The crap they sprayed was the screwup. But, hey,mismanagement of a crisis is where government excels.

Do we get to include the toxic crap of recycling and mining? Can we include All the trouble of The Green New Deal?
The windmills suck. Solar,Meh,, marginal,,
But, hey! They haven't done the damage that oil has. What a goofy point.
How MANY MILLIONS of barrels, how many Billion miles of transportation have we seen from oil?

And look at the miniscule part of transportation EVs represent and the troubles they have caused and the obvious trouble they are very likely to cause.

Weak sauce, E.
EV? Ohh,goody, a fire that won't put out. It's gotta burn out. Brilliant.

How MANY MILLIONS of barrels, how many Billion miles of transportation have we seen from oil?

And look at the miniscule part of transportation EVs represent and the troubles they have caused and the obvious trouble they are very likely to cause.

I'm happy to hear that. That is frikken Cool

Isn't that the reasonable way? Unless they figure out a safer battery, recyclable, the EVs have a serious limitation in how good they are as a desirable substitute for what we have.
I keep seeing pictures of Mines for materials for batteries, only to do some digging and Maybe that isn't Really what the words by the picture claim.. So, exactly how nasty and how many yards of dirt need moved to get the stuff for a battery? Will it require huge open mines? How much of the world are we going to have to dig up to make batteries so we protect the world? I'm not convinced this has been thought out.
I'm hoping I understood your question.

Well, that Is a good question. And I'm not sure how to answer that. Is that because of oil? Or management? If we can decide to throw something away because corruption has eroded its value to the point that it is no longer beneficial, can we start with government?

If I'm tracking right, I'm going to have to say stick with petroleum and allow electric to grow into the market. Government mandated making gas vehicles taken off the market is wrong on every level. And is corrupt in itself.

No. Compare the horror of a jetliner crash. Mucho carnage is often the result. But man miles traveled per fatality shows it's The safest travel.
The number of cars,gas powered, diesel, everything Not EV outnumber EVs ,the miles of non drama in petrol transportation ,I feel safe saying, are orders of magnitude better than EVs.