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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by cowmix on Sunday September 02, 2018 @10:09AM (#17897046)
It takes, conservatively, 6.5kwh of power to refine 1 gal of gas. My Volt travels around 27 miles on that much electric power.

Basically, if you stop refining gas you'll have pretty much enough power for all EVs.

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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by tedsanders on Sunday September 02, 2018 @06:00PM (#17898916)
This article disagrees with the factoid that it takes 6.5 kWh of electric power to refine a gallon of gas. It says it's a few tenths of a kWh of electric power.

https://www.cfr.org/blog/do-gasoline-based-cars-really-use-m...

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