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How long before you can't afford to maintain the diesel? I drove a diesel until rust caused the fuel tank to drop - I could still fix it but that is more than I have time to do myself and the cost is half way to a new car (i bought a 3 year old ev to get something nicer), with there lively being a similar amount of maintenance next year. I miss the ability to haul a 10000lbs but since nobody makes basic trucks anything I can afford was not much better (and thus only a few years from the same rust issues)
even if nobody bought a new car this year, used cars are all getting older and so it won't be long before someone has to buy new just to get anything
I think the bigger question is how long until you can't get fuel without a hassle.
Very true. Right now most cars are still petro and so stations are everywhere. The average car is about 12 years old and most poor people will choose to scrap them at around 25, so there are plenty of stations to meet the demand. However in a few years that average will not include enough petro to support as many stations - how will they respond is a question.
in 20 years petro will be a special order thing outside of a few niches. At least by current trends - perhaps some alternative will come and change everything, who knows.
That's the other thing I like about electric. I am able to generate electricity on my property with solar panels. Can't really refine oil into gasoline or diesel on my property.
Maybe you can't but there are people with natural oil springs on their land who could. I don't know any who do and the amount coming from the springs isn't much, but they could.
ethanol fuel is done by a few people at home, it isn't hard, just takes a lot of labor.
Decades. That's not really the point of what I'm saying though.