Oddly, fuel prices where I live (SF Bay Area) really haven’t changed much. Still a bit over $3 per gallon for regular. Has been that way for several months at least.
Tom Keenan > On Apr 26, 2020, at 3:09 PM, Lee Hart via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > EVDL Administrator via EV wrote: >>> Electric adoption will happen much quicker if the security of the oil supply >>> changes or the price of oil skyrockets or people become aware of the harm >>> and >>> cost pumping, refining and burning fossil fuel poses. >> >> Awareness of the harm won't do it. It's not sufficiently immediate, and >> it's not personal. A few people kind of care, but it's mostly lip service, >> forgotten as soon as the car sales person starts to push yet another big ICE >> SUV. > > Sadly, I agree. Most people are too wrapped up in their day-to-day "instant > gratification" lives to care about any big-picture issues. > > Today, gas is cheap; so they don't/won't think about EVs. > > "Herd memory" is also a strange thing. What's happening today drowns out > whatever happened before; so it comes as a total surprise if it happens again. > > Thus, they barely noticed that gas prices have fallen 2:1. But watch the hue > and cry when they go back up 2:1! They barely notice that the air got cleaner > without all the ICE pollution. But here them shout when it shoots back up > again when the crisis passes! > > If we lived in a logical world with rational people, we would have already > switched to EVs. Instead, we balance at the tipping point, with powerful > forces pushing us back away from the brink. > > Lee Hart > > -- > Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all > our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, > and a sterner sense of justice than we do. -- Wendell Berry > -- > Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
