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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.LOL...solution? Buy an EV....plug in charge at home or at a Supercharger....the fee for the "juice" is paid for on line...in the privacy of your car...and it's a third the price of gas....
Robecology
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July 23, 2019
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Do you get a commission? 
Totally serious here... What's your cost per mile for power? I drive ~1500mi a week, so I'm pretty curious. Over the past 30k miles, I'm averaging 6.4c a mile. Wondering how EV compares in the real world...
@MojoDave Sorry you think so.
It's just the science and health teacher (45 years, retired) in me that keeps trying to "sell" the EV's.
@MojoDave, @synergy Good question! And not easy to calculate; but let me explain it this way.
Tesla has bumped up prices at US states, with some rising as much as 100 percent. As of this week (beginning March 11), prices have risen (this is from an article, below).
California prices grew by 30 percent from $0.20 to $0.26 and New York costs jumped by $0.05 to $0.24. Oregon was hit with one of the steepest rises—$0.12 to $0.24. Illinois drivers will now pay $0.24 instead of $0.15. All prices are per kWh.
So let's take an average of $0.20 cents per KWH to charge; 90% charge at home (cheaper) 10% charge mainly/mostly at Superchargers (higher).
My Tesla's a 100 (KWH) S. That means it will hold 100 KwH's of charge of you charge it to full capacity.
If you travel at 65-70 MPH....you get a range of 335 miles. So that 3.35 miles costs an average of $0.20cents.
Thus if you multiply both these #'s by 10, you go 33.5 miles, and you'll pay an average of $2.00 dollars
What gas powered car gets 33 miles on $2 bucks worth of gas? Very few; if any.
So....long story short; EV's are much cheaper to run (relevant to the cost of fossil fuel energy).
The source of electricity is a factor in pollution; mine is "nuclear" powered. 23% of America is still "coal" powered....but remember - power plants have a lot more efficient pollution controls than those on a typical car....so even if your car is "coal" powered, it's almost twice as efficient as a gasoline powered car.
So in general, EV's are far less polluting than Gasoline counterparts.
Here's a great video I often share that explains some of the reasons why in 10 years, fossil fuel cars will be almost gone.
and here's he source of EV cost to power
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