Let ME try again...

Oil has a positive EREI...a battery is negative. You GET MORE energy from a barrel of oil than you use to get it...a batter consumes MORE energy than it can supply.

"Energy returned on energy invested:
In physics, energy economics, and ecological energetics, energy returned on energy invested; or energy return on investment, is the ratio of the amount of usable energy delivered from a particular energy resource to the amount of exergy used to obtain that energy resource. It is a distinct measure from energy efficiency as it does not measure the primary energy inputs to the system, only usable energy.

"When the EROEI of a resource is less than or equal to one, that energy source becomes a net "energy sink", and can no longer be used as a source of energy, but depending on the system might be useful for energy storage (for example a battery)."

"To be considered viable as a prominent fuel or energy source a fuel or energy must have an EROEI ratio of at least 3:1"

"For example, given a process with an EROEI of 5, expending 1 unit of energy yields a net energy gain of 4 units. The break-even point happens with an EROEI of 1 or a net energy gain of 0."

"A 2015 review in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews assessed the energy payback time and EROI of solar photovoltaics. In this study, which uses an insolation of 1700/kWh/m²/yr and a system lifetime of 30 years, mean harmonized EROIs between 8.7 and 34.2 were found. Mean harmonized energy payback time varied from 1.0 to 4.1 years."

"In regard to fossil fuels, when oil was originally discovered, it took on average one barrel of oil to find, extract, and process about 100 barrels of oil. The ratio, for discovery of fossil fuels in the United States, has declined steadily over the last century from about 1000:1 in 1919 to only 5:1 in the 2010s"

"ESOEI (or ESOIe) is used when EROEI is below 1. "ESOIe is the ratio of electrical energy stored over the lifetime of a storage device to the amount of embodied electrical energy required to build the device."

"How deep should the probing in the supply chain of the tools being used to generate energy go? For example, if steel is being used to drill for oil or construct a nuclear power plant, should the energy input of the steel be taken into account, should the energy input into building the factory being used to construct the steel be taken into account and amortized? Should the energy input of the roads which are used to ferry the goods be taken into account? What about the energy used to cook the steelworker's breakfasts? These are complex questions evading simple answers.[37] A full accounting would require considerations of opportunity costs and comparing total energy expenditures in the presence and absence of this economic activity."

These are ALL NEGATIVE...meaning they require MORE energy than they output.

"Storage Technology ESOEI

Zinc bromide battery 9
Vanadium redox battery 10
Pumped hydroelectric storage 704
NaS battery 20
Lithium ion battery 32
Lead acid battery 5
Compressed air energy storage 792"