that jerry can of gas won't move a car after 2 or 3 years sitting on a shelf. a stack of batteries and solar panels and wind turbines will still be able to produce electricity to drive an EV for probably 10-20 years.

that's the use-case i'm talking about. obviously I totally agree that you can't take "A jerry can of electricity" in your trunk in an EV. ...but its already pretty chock-full of batteries to nearly its volume limit. and there is similarly a physical volume limit for how much gasoline you can throw in a trunk.

But I digress - I was never talking about single-trip backup fuel, I'm talking about long-term sustainable fuel you can **continue to** produce on a sovereign hunk of land with zero dependencies post-stockpiling.

your points aren't invalid on their own, they're just tangential to my question.