As witnessed during the pandemic, when the demand goes down the cost effectiveness to extract the stuff from some places goes away. Wells here in NM shuttered and oil revenues vanished. Some refineries were shut down due to the reduction in demand. The fact gasoline prices went down was more a consequence of having a surplus from the inertia of the pre-pandemic demand, after a while that surplus would be consumed and the price point would correct. With the proportion of fuel vs other petroleum products shifted there will be impacts to industry and goods as well.
I drove an EV for 10 years and kept meticulous records on operation and maintenance. At the same time I had a Mercury grand marquis, by today's standards a "big" car. In that time frame I could show that the marquis was a more cost effective car to own. EV's may not need the regular maintenance that an ICE car does, but when something does need attention it's more expensive. With some EV's a replacement battery may be more than the car is worth after 10 years or so. Surely over time all that settles out and at the end of the day it is what it is, and people that can afford it, will.
I don't see solar as being as major a player as that article suggests. It's a bit more deployable than wind but at the end of the day it's an expensive way to generate power, and like wind it suffers from intermittent generation (weather, night). On a residential scale I see it as a way to sell financing costs to unsuspecting homeowners, on large scales it's a way to cram fees and expenses onto utility rate payers. Then throw in most of the panels come from an enemy of the U.S. and are created by a pretty environmentally unfriendly process, so I'm not seeing what problem they solve. This too will settle out as systems are deployed and real world numbers derived.
Mark B.
Albuquerque, NM