Bust out the truck nuts, baws! Exxon says expect only 6% of cars electric by 2040

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The electric-vehicle, or EV, fleet won't grow fast enough to displace much in the way of fuel demand, according to Exxon Vice President Jeff Woodbury. Plus, heavy-duty trucks and petrochemicals are where the real action is anyway, he said during a conference call with analysts on Friday.

"By 2040, the fleet is about 6 percent EV," Woodbury said, referring to a company forecast on the growth of electric cars. Even if you boosted that number by 50 percent, it would only remove about a half-million barrels a day in demand, he said, "not substantial when you think about overall oil demand of over 100 million barrels per day, at that point."

Should gasoline demand dry up some day, that's OK with Exxon too. The company would rather "upgrade" those molecules into higher-profit fuels such as diesel anyway, he said.

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