Even if that IEA data is true, which I doubt
*I doubt IEA as a source,
I think it is at best foolish to dispute the IEA data. It is used by businesses and Governments without question. Where necessary, they use IPCC standards for measurement, e.g. CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels from 14.6 billion tons in 1972 to 32.3 billion tons in 2016.
At worst, to dispute World Standard data is eerily similar to the language of Climate Science Denial.
Note: The IEA even show in their tables where data from one source does not equal the data from another source. e.g. where the country by country total of imports does not equal the total of country by country exports. That shows confidence.
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I think the use of primary energy as the metric is problematic. The true metric should be useful energy, or the actual work to be done. An EV uses far less energy per mile compared to an ICE. Fossil fuels have loads of energy, but most is wasted, so to replace them you need less energy than might appear.
How true.
The first graph I attach shows some indication of some of the energy lost from production to consumption. It does show that efficiency of energy use has gone down over the years, not improved. It does show the amount of fossil fuels wasted in producing electrical energy, i.e. the difference between primary energy used and energy produced in electricity generation.
It does not include the wastage of energy in an ICEV compared with an EV. The second graph shows consumption by use. Transportation is the biggest and growing (in 2016 nearly 30% of all energy use), and within that ICEVs must be the biggest by far, ***circa 80-85% ?). We know that an EV is two to three times more efficient in using energy (from the battery to the wheels) than an ICEV (from the fuel tank to the wheels).
So the potential energy savings from wind+solar+EVs are vast, in the same way the existing Fossil Fuel Empire is vast. The Empire will fight back - to the "last dead cold hand".
And for some time, this has to be all I'm going to say about that
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***https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/ieo/pdf/transportation.pdf