Originally Posted by
VisionWings
your grocery stores use fuel to transport groceries.
your construction company uses fuel to transport your materials to site.
too use fuel to fly passengers and this either gives you a profit sharing check or concessions if the company can’t make money.
Your EV doesn’t do anything more than save you a couple hundred dollars a year. All of that could be pointless depending on the steep rise of fuel costs.
wow. I’m embarrassed for you.
You're looking at this myopically instead of looking at the broader impact of cutting personal gasoline use.
The US consumes 9 million barrels of gasoline worth of oil a day. 90% of gasoline is used by the consumer via cars and light trucks.
In 2015 when OPEC tried to push out our frackers, the world oversupply hit around 3 million a day. That was enough to push oil from $105-ish to $30-ish in 18 months. Coincidently, AA made the largest profit that year of any airline, ever. $7.8 bil net.
It's not about saving $400/yr in gas costs, it's about reducing overall demand for oil (in the US and worldwide) so the price craters and insulates the consumer from sticker shock at the pump and reduces our incentive to drops bombs in the middle east along with the ensuing inflation.
Of course, all those things you mentioned would also be impacted (in a positive way) with oil prices dropping. But the more prominent cost front and center for consumers, is the price they see on the corner gas station every day.