Electirc cars are better in some respects. Nonreusable energy will get more expensive while reusable energy will get better.

The market will figure out if electirc cars are a workable, maybe it want work. Maybe we should have hydrogen cars or maybe something else. Maybe we just have to live with it, use all the oil and only then we will stop. Sure you can add a carbon tax or something but that will at most drag things out (or maybe make the adoption of diffrent cars faster).

Fundamentally the way we will live and how we will produce energy will be guided by markets.