The recent outbreak of ‘range anxiety’ among combustion-engine owners in the Southeast US when the colonial pipeline went offline illustrates very clearly how t

The recent outbreak of ‘range anxiety’ among combustion-engine owners in the Southeast US when the colonial pipeline went offline illustrates very clearly how thin a myth of ‘independence’ has been built around gasoline cars. You can hit the open road and just keep driving - as long as a complex global energy distribution network keeps up just-in-time fulfillment of fuel to gas stations along the way. Whereas an electric car, powered with charge gathered from the sunlight that struck the roof of your own home? That’s truly independent.