At my last fillup the price of gasoline was $1.79 / gallon. I am unclear on why someone would buy an electric car right now.
Like everything else, it’s going to be a gamble.
Sounds like he got a really good deal on the price, and made his purchase decision based on well defined requirements rather than “green” emotionalism.
There’s nothing wrong with a lot of “green” technology. It just doesn’t make sense to either pay a market premium for the “green” factor alone, or use other people’s money to subsidize it.
I was an early adopted of CFLs, and am now changing out my burned out CFLs (most are over 10 years old) for LEDs. I didn’t do that because they were “green” or because I really bought into their lifecycle savings. I did it because a really HATE changing light bulbs. So paying more for a longer time between changing was worth it to me.
I also have a small “green” propane-powered outboard motor for a small creek boat I own. Cost a little more than a gas powered one, but the convienience of ditching gas for those little green camping bottles and not having to run the gas out, mix in gas stabilizer and/or have the carb rebuilt every so often due to ethanol makes it worth it. Don’t have to winterize the thing either - just hang it up on the wall mounting and know it’ll fire up fine the next time I want to use it. Whether it’s over Xmas or sometime in the Spring.
Since you don’t live in Connecticut you know.