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We could argue who is to blame for higher gas/oil prices until the cows come home, however I ask the questions; years from now will we look back at this as the
by Grazester 4y ago
We could argue who is to blame for higher gas/oil prices until the cows come home, however I ask the questions; years from now will we look back at this as the defining moment we realized we needed to hasten our move away from carbon based energy sources and renew investment in nuclear energy again to facilitate that move?
I think gas/oil prices going up like this needed to happen.
- bluGill 4y agoI don't think it really matters much in the long term. Either way it was obvious to the industry that electric cars were coming. High gas prices are making them a little more in demand, but it takes years to design an electric car. Any EV with announced availability before around 2025 was already in development before gas prices went up. High prices might push some schedules up a few months, and I'm sure everyone is scrambling to see if they can make a few more than planned, but in the end most are running a plan made years ago. 2025 is a number I made up for discussion. I have no doubt you can find places where it is wrong for some specific car, but I think it is close enough for discussion.
- rightbyte 4y ago> I think gas/oil prices going up like this needed to happen. Maybe. But you can do the same thing with taxes on gas and not induce a famine in the process.
- Grazester 4y agoPassing a tax or further increasing the tax would not have been gone over easily. Famine? if there is it's not because of some local u.s. oil policy. Have you seen what's happening in the wider world?