Oh come on, our "gasoline powered car" is not a gimmick ?
First, we expend enormous amount of energy to extract the raw form of oil via oil rig, to make it usable we expend enormous amount of energy to refine it to gasoline. Also, We expend huge amount of energy to transport the oil all over the world for consumption. We even go to war to secure the control of the oil field.
How much energy is wasted to produce 1 gallon of usable gasoline through all these processes? only to be wasted (70- 80% ) in the internal combustion engine again ? haha
To make thing worse, the oil rig powered car pollutes our air and contributes to global warming.