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I'm locked in to an energy tariff for the next year, so my supply price (in theory) can't go up.
But I do have an oil fuelled heating system in our house, as we leave rurally. We accidentally ran out of oil just before the strikes on Iran, so managed to get a full tank before the prices went up by over 40%. Saved about Β£350, so from our perspective we got lucky.
It makes me even more angry to see my idiot government still promote dinosaur juice over renewable energy which is better in every way, except that it would make some very rich people richer a little bit more slowly.
Electricity prices went up too. I have no idea which went up more
But I have no regrets from buying an EV, except that I canβt get my family on board because theyβre so expensive and rare ( in the us)
Prices of everything will rise in days. Almost all trucks are diesel in Europe.
No, but I don't own a car at all. Transit and walking are nice.
The war and general inaction on climate crisis and energy is depressing.
I don't have any car. The rising prices for computer hardware bothers me way more than the oil.
Smug, but transportation runs on fossil fuels so itβll catch up in groceries and everything, so then I return to the standard anxiety and depression these days.
I have a hybrid and it feels like i never run out of gas. Ill never go back
I sort of regret buying one, not because of the car itself, but now I'm paying more in EV tax than I paid in gas.
Ev tax? When did that happen? Is it somehow higher than regular car tax?
Some states implement an ev-specific road tax on top of it. It's $300 biannually for me - that's easily triple what my gas bill was (I don't drive all that far anymore). Even hybrids get a charge too.
It's ostensibly to make up for the lack of fuel tax income, which is fine, but IMO should be based on mileage and weight, and apply to gas/diesel too - big heavy trucks and Escalades are causing more road wear than the Chevy Bolts putting around.
I would agree with you there. Tax by curb weight at least - mileage is a little harder to enforce imo
That's what oil companies want.
i have a hybrid but no place to charge it, so i basically just have a slightly more efficient car.
during lockdown when oil prices surged, our price at the pump went up by about 1β¬/l, which was almost a doubling. that caused our government to panic and start ripping up our climate directives of x% renewables in the fuel, the yearly index-linked tax increase on fossil fuels, and other stuff. the prices did go down by quite a lot, but the market was stable then. now we're in the same boat again but we have nothing to tear out.
it's frustrating, because they also started phasing out the tax incentives on ev's due to energy costs jumping up when germany was connected to our grid through undersea cables. that means the transition to a greener vehicle fleet will take longer, and that the existing fleet will grow older and less efficient. it's all a big house of cards.
I've found some free chargers around my city that are nice. One was at the Library, but it's gone now. Have you looked on PlugShare to see if there are any near you?
i have a first-gen Volt, which means i can only charge at 3.6kW and have a J1772 connector. in europe. it's not a matter of there not being any chargers around, the car is just made for overnight charging only.
We lived without a car in the city, rented out our apartments 2x parking space to cover common area fees, walked, used PT and rode my escooter
Now we live in a rural area and have solar panels on the roof and an ecar. Rather NOT have a car but only one bus a day (I take it on occasion). My total electric bill is about $20 a month and that includes charging my ecar, I get paid for excess solar going back into the grid
This is Australia through and we have a huge choice of ecars.
It is going to cause additional pain to those already tight on finances.
I been fortunate enough to be able to get a large solar array and battery storage system to pair with the EVs to help insulate against direct impacts of energy price shocks. Only good that can come is for more people with the means to start looking for more cost effective options such as heat pumps and fuel efficient cars, EVs, and public transit. Ideally it would garner more support for local renewable power generation, but the reality seems to be that some countries would rather just invade others for their oil resources.