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redpoint5 · 05-07-2021, 03:42 PM

At $3 per gallon of gasoline and 30 MPG, that's $0.10 per mile.

It's half the cost to run that van on electrons than gasoline.

...in my Prius, it was about $0.06 per mile on gasoline and $0.03 per mile on electricity. Again, half the cost.

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