The author seems to have left out all the other power uses of petroleum products. One is the additives that are required. Another might be the power to store, transport and sell the crude and refined products.
But did they take into account that the gasoline is burned and only about 25% gets to the wheels. Most of the heat goes into the atmosphere as wasted heat.
https://www.cfr.org/blog/do-gasoline-based-cars-really-use-more-electricity-electric-vehicles-do?amp
Here is another link that’s a few years old that says EVs make half as much greenhouse gases, cradle to grave. But this assumes that the EV is charged from the grid that still generates most of the electricity using coal. This was true back then but not as many coal plants are in use today; there have been hundreds that have been shut down in the US. In Texas, where Big Oil was king, there are so many wind turbines that have been installed that if Texas was its own country, it would be sixth in the world in the amount of wind power! Texas has 30 Gigawatts of wind turbines! That’s the same as 30 full-size coal power plants!
https://currentev.com/blog/evs-cleaner-cars-from-cradle-to-grave-definitive-proof-from-the-ucs/
Information on how many coal fired power plants that have been shut down in the last decade or so.
