Quote from: K-Dog on Dec 22, 2023, 08:54 AMBut gas prices matter and once they did not. I can remember gas so cheap a minimum wage worker could keep the tank full. I never concerned myself with how much it cost to drive from A to B in the same city. Now I think about it all the time. Where I live I have to drive at least five miles to get to anyplace I want to get to. That is an exaggeration, but I am in the middle of a 'bedroom' community. Stores are at least five miles away with the exception of one strip mall that has groceries and a drug store.In the early 70's when gas prices quadrupled I'll bet they mattered. When the rationing was taking place in some US states in the late 1970's, boy then it wasn't even about prices but just could you get the stuff.
So, it is a five dollar bill to get anywhere and back. At my retail job that is 15 minutes of servitude.
Okay, 5 miles to get anywhere you want to. Call it 10 for fun. One way. 20 miles total. An EV gets about 4 miles per kwh, 5 kwh to get anywhere you like, call it $0.12/kwh locally....$0.12 X 6kwh (for less than 100% charging efficiency) = $0.72.
When it comes to fuel costs anyway, could a micro-economic effect this simple have an outsized macro-econmic oil produced effect? Certainly something is happening whereby an event predicted to crush the modern world within months has gone unnoticed for half a decade. The more suffering amongst the fossil fuelers just increases the momentum to the EVers?