"Lefty?" Why are you assuming that, especially considerubf Elon Musk is himself a Ron DeSantis supporter?
"Exception to the rule?" Please explain how lithium is mined differently for electric bikes than it is for electric cars.
"Do you understand how lithium is mined ?" Do you understand the difference in quantities needed? There's a big difference mining something once to build the car versus mining something continuously to fuel it over its lifetime:
And then add in recycling of the battery materials versus the pollution from burning gasoline. Read more
here.
"Electric Cars aren't efficient." They are more efficient than gasoline-powered cars. Matter of fact, most EVs are so efficient that even when powered with electricity generated exclusively from coal they pollute less. Look up efficiency of gasoline engines - there are
indisputable facts that a gasoline engine can't be more than 35% efficient, due to thermal and other losses.
"You can't even make batteries without coal mines . " Sort-of. It is true that refining of some battery materials requires high heat, which today is economically viable only by burning fossil fuels (not necessarily coal), but again, overall the impact on the environment over a vehicle's lifetime is less for EVs than for ICE vehicles. Here's another good article:
https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-much-co2-emitted-manufacturing-batteries
"Electric companies are in trouble with supplying off the grid now . " That's not really true. California, for instance, hasn't had troubles since the illegal Enron-enabled diverting of power, also due to more renewable sources being added to the gird. And since most vehicle charging takes place at night when electricity demand is low, EV charging actually helps increase power plant utilization, which lowers overall cost per kW.
Of course, you actually believe that more CO2 is better and that EVs are part of a giant conspiracy to control all of us. So, you're your own worst enemy in any logical argument.