"With the price of fuel the long goose chases of motoringintercity is no longer economically viable becauseair/train travel is relatively cheap and efficient."
Quite true , but of course if one happens to live outside the major centres below the Brisbane Adelaide line , or if your travel is not ''intercity'' , or if you aren't completely logical about your transport option [ gee , is that another totally unnecessary SUV driving past, with a tow bar ?,] it suddenly becomes not truth . but wishful thinking.
People buy cars because of what they might want to do , not what they do .
I agree , about extended egos, but as much as one might bay at the moon about them , they are a factor that cannot be ignored.
To base what you feel is going to be the pace of change , or even the endpoint of EV's in Australia .on wishful thinking I dont think is sensible.
Usually this argument by me provokes a response , among others , like ''Anyway the government will mandate it whether the public wants it or not''.
Push comes to shove , if voter sentiment changes , B/S that the ''mandate will not change'.
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