dhanson865
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evnow said:dhanson865 said:I didn't say oil price, I said gas price. It apparently would surprise you to know that the price of gas locally does not have a 1:1 correlation to the price of oil at the national or global level.
Data based ... what a concept !
http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=18887&p=406439#p406439" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
garbled data, garbled interpretation.
gas prices may or may not be a significant factor but even if they are they are shadowed by:
HOV stickers (people will buy HOV vehicles ignoring the cost of gas)
State rebates/incentives (that distort the cost of the EV vs other states)
So you pretty much have to find a state or states that don't have larger forcing to cull your data from and ignore the data from the states that are heavily influenced enough to ignore gas prices.
The article in that thread purely tries to make the case that national gas prices don't affect national EV sales. I can't argue with that. I just don't think that's a useful interpretation of the available data.