Do you think the oil companies are going to try to crush the electric car again?
Actually, it’s the automotive industry and the consumers who are fighting the electic car. The oil companies and the utilities have been pushing for the electric car for years because it will consume even more fuel per mile than the current gas guzzlers, while costing the oil companies less money to deliver it to the consumer — it’s a lot cheaper delivering oil by train and barge to 1 power plant than it is to deliver it by truck to hundreds of gas stations, and also they reduce their middlemen from thousands of small time competitive operators (who have to take a bigger cut just to stay in business) to a handful of large utility corporations with economies of scale and government enforced regional monopolies. While it’s far more efficient for them, it’s grossly inefficient (in terms of cost and time, as well as convenience) for the consumer. The cars will cost more (and require even more petroleum based products to build), have less power, cost more to operate/fuel (burning even more
