That “child labor” comment probably refers to cobalt. The oil industry uses more cobalt than the EV industry, and while the EV industry is working to end child laborers, the oil industry never did. Plus, cobalt comes from copper mines so those mines would exist without battery electric vehicles.

So your pro fossil fuel talking points are out of date. By a good 5 years now. Why don’t you go to them and see what they want you to say nowadays.