Why not?
Fossil fuel energy has lifted billions out of poverty and strife and would continue to do so if politics weren't corrupting the facts.
Advocates of electric vehicles seem to forget that they need ELECTRICITY to work and that the majority of it is, and for the foreseeable future will always be, generated primarily by coal, gas and nuclear sources of electricity.
Even in the ridiculous utopia of environmentalist nirvana there is absolutely NO WAY renewables (solar and wind) could produce enough energy to power the electric vehicles they want us to use - wind/solar will ALWAYS require backup and that backup will ALWAYS have to be coal, gas or nuclear.
Apologies for the off topic rant (in response to the off-topic comment).
Interesting view of modern life you have there.
Perhaps you should tell it to the people these days who are already powering their own homes and their own electric cars from their own solar PV panels every day?
I'm sure they will be horrified to hear that what they are already doing every day is actually impossible!
Maybe they have been driving imaginary cars to and from their imaginary homes charged by their imaginary renewable energy?
Don't forget to also let them know that energy storage by the various means available today such as pumped hydro, batteries, molten salt and ice is also imaginary.
Thank you for enlightening us.
I'll go back to my cave now and light some more coal to keep the dinosaurs away.