Electricity here is meant as a technology (or a set of technologies) exploiting a particular physical phenomenon - not the phenomenon itself.

(If it were the latter, then you could argue everything uses electricity if it relies in any way on matter being solid, because AFAIK the furthest we got on the question of "why I don't fall through the chair I'm sitting on" is.... "electromagnetism".)

Either way, it still feels like a stretched and inappropriate comparison at best, or a disingenuous and asinine one at worst.