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Old 08-18-2017, 01:11 PM   #26 (permalink)
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I have comparatively cheap electricity at $0.13/ kWh compared to many other places in the world. That is equivalent to to gas at $4.40.
It may be theoretically equivalent to gas at $4.40 a gallon, but considering that a typical gasoline engine only manages to extract about 11kWh out of a gallon of gas, you're paying for electricity at a rate of about $1.45 per gallon if you're planning to use that electricity to power a car.
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