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Comment by badpun

7 days ago

Car tires are made with synthetic rubber, which is made from oil.

Quick google math says you get 6 tires from a barrel of oil vs roughly 20 gallons of gas. Unless EVs mean you change tires every 300 miles or so I think we're good.

My ICE vehicles go through many more pounds of gasoline than they do tires. A set of tires is ~100lbs of material. 50,000mi of gas on a 30mpg vehicle is 10,000lbs of gas.

The big concern is burning oil products into the atmosphere: that means fuels. Using oil to produce rubbers and plastics is less of a concern.