Re:Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research...
by jaclaz on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @05:54AM
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I would like to introduce another factor.
When you buy a Tesla you pay upfront the whole price (yes I know you can have some financing and re-pay it monthly) no matter how many miles you put on it, with the gas you pay as you go, i.e. the costs are directly connected to the use you make of it.
It is the same thing (I use to have this argument often) with "green" (energy saving) houses, once you strip from the equation "moral" or "ethical" considerations (lowering the carbon footprint, etc.) the fact is that you have to pay upfront a large sum of money that may (if the house is actually used) be repaid/compensated by the savings over the next 10/15/20 years, in the meantime you will have to pay (anyway) the utilities fixed fees (and rest assured that those will continue to raise).
When you buy a Tesla you pay upfront the whole price (yes I know you can have some financing and re-pay it monthly) no matter how many miles you put on it, with the gas you pay as you go, i.e. the costs are directly connected to the use you make of it.
It is the same thing (I use to have this argument often) with "green" (energy saving) houses, once you strip from the equation "moral" or "ethical" considerations (lowering the carbon footprint, etc.) the fact is that you have to pay upfront a large sum of money that may (if the house is actually used) be repaid/compensated by the savings over the next 10/15/20 years, in the meantime you will have to pay (anyway) the utilities fixed fees (and rest assured that those will continue to raise).