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alistairC on April 11, 2007 - 12:08pm

No! No! I want my electric car, dammit! before I'm too poor to afford it.

But I realize may end up with a pony trap when I get too old to ride my bike...

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TheTransition on April 11, 2007 - 10:08pm

No! No! I want my electric car, dammit! before I'm too poor to afford it.

If I do an analysis of the numbers from Khebab for the price of Oil below, my fuel costs won't be higher than my maintenance costs for my 4 cylinder Camry until about 2012.

I may well be a wide eyed optimist but I think it's likely the costs of electric cars will decrease substantially by then.

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