Online searches for electric and hybrid cars increase as war-linked fuel prices hit highest levels in nearly three years
US car buyers are showing a surge in interest in electric vehicles after Donald Trump’s decision to attack Iran helped cause a major jump in gasoline prices.
The cost to refuel a vehicle in the US is at its highest level in nearly three years, with the average national price of gas standing at $3.90 a gallon on Friday.
This increase has been driven by the rising global cost of oil in the wake of the US and Israel’s bombing of Iran, a major oil producer. The conflict has resulted in the strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway that conveys around a fifth of the world’s oil, being shut off by Iran.
Its hilarious how short sighted the US car market is.
When gas prices also spiked around 2008, the Toyota Prius hit sales records year after year. Then as soon as gas dropped, Prius sales also immediately dropped, while SUV sales began to climb to records again.
Its like nobody realizes gas will ALWAYS keep going up, and it will always find a floor price above where it was before....
I can't afford any of that shit though, so I'm scrabbling together parts to build a moped out of an old bicycle.
Good thing the pig-headed, slack-jawed, gas guzzler jackasses didn't put up so much of a pointless tantrum that most manufacturers stopped producing EVs altogether.
It really hurts people like me driving a 20+ year old car with over 200k miles cause I can't afford anything else.
If hybrids and EV's were cheaper, it would be a lot better for everyone. But the current administration hates electric vehicles and saving lives, so oh well.
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