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onenote

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24. Very doubtful

Reply to Blues Heron (Reply #8)

Sun Dec 7, 2025, 11:25 AM

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There are probably over 290 million vehicles on the road in the US. The total number of Teslas is probably around 3 million, tops and the total number of other EVs is another million.

Fuel efficiency of new cars has improved over the past 25 years, but because people are keeping their cars longer, the impact on overall fuel consumption increases very slowly. Certainly not enough to explain the up and down shifts in gas prices this year or any other year.

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