Trump: America’s Greatest EV Salesman. Trump’s foreign policy and the escalating volatility in the Middle East have stripped away the illusion of cheap, infinitely available gasoline. An EV parked in the garage, plugged in, represents certainty. People are starting to view EVs as a financial hedge.
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At least up until this past week EVs were dirt cheap like 33% off MSRP some of them, cars were much cheaper used and new, we will see how things change!
Steven Miller looks a lot like PeeWee German.
We’ve already known this for decades. Glad the morons can catch on AFTER a crisis that affects them personally. Too bad they can’t see the importance of planning ahead for climate change. We’ll just have to wait until we’re under water before they have an epiphany that we should do something.
Fossil fuel and their talking heads and paid propaganda podcasters are trying their best to make green energy look impractical and no one wants it.
This article is written as if it were 6 months from now and we’d been seeing months of sustained high gas prices and a corresponding EV surge.
This was obvious years ago. Saw a show where they were talking to people about how they were dealing with the loss of power due to disaster in I think it was northern California. The one guy had a setup with solar and a few small wind things and lots of batteries. He drove an EV and even had it setup so he could use the EV to power the house. Other than cost why is this not what everyone wants for the future? If you live rural it just seemed like s no brainer.
I love my EV, powered by my home renewables.
I have solar panels, battery storage and two EVs, I’ve forgotten what a “gas station” is
Today the average retail price of gasoline in the US is north of $3.40 and climbing rapidly. Premium is $4.25. And the markets haven’t yet priced in the possibility of an extended conflict in the Middle East, which looks more likely every day. Qatar predicted that oil could approach $150 per barrel, and others have predicted US gasoline prices could hit $5 to $6 per gallon if the conflict doesn’t end very soon.
So the delusions many Americans were under that Trump would get gas prices under $2 per gallon are quickly being replaced with fears of yet another imminent consumer energy crisis, this time deliberately inflicted by their own president. EVs are looking more and more like a no-brainer from a purely financial perspective. Add that to their other qualities of being more convenient, more fun to drive and more reliable and we could see even the most diehard MAGAs start to embrace EVs, as they’ve recently done with solar power. We can hope anyways.
I’ve dedicated my career to sustainability science and engineering. I have friends with EV1 patents. But I’m also a stickler for well reasoned arguments because shitty arguments don’t get past peer review.
There isn’t a single piece of evidence in this article to back up its assertions. How could there be? We’re one week into the war- it takes MUCH longer than that to gather auto sales estimates.