text: "consider the ineffiencies and losses of producing and transporting gasoline from extracted, transported and transformed petroleum."
  
  The same could be said about virtually all electricity generation, be it hydro, wind, solar or coal.  There are inefficiencies is all supply chains, and that was my point. 
  
  ICEs and their supply chains are not 100% efficient, but neither are electric.  Supporters of electric cars seem to 'skim over' these facts.