Yah, but those people won't be using refined gasoline. It uses alot of electricity just to refine a gallon of gas.

According to this web page:

http://www.consumerenergyreport.com/2012/03/21/what-makes-up...

It takes about $0.20 to refine a gallon of gas, so ~2kWh/gal. Except, It obviously actually takes less electricity than that, because there are other costs to refining. Not a bad investment in energy terms, when a gallon of gasoline contains ~36.6kWh worth of energy.

Where on that page did you get the 20 cents? Didn't see that anywhere. From this http://gatewayev.org/how-much-electricity-is-used-refine-a-g... It's more like 6kWh/gallon.

Don't forget the cost in electricity of finding deposits, mining them, transporting the pre-refined gas, transporting the post-refined gas, and lobbying Congress.

I just imagined the Congressional Cattle Prod, wrapped in $100 bills.