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A Dry Pipeline Asks: Who Wants an Electric Car Now?
Drivers tend to shrug off high gas prices, but the gas crisis coincides with a wave of EV curiosity.
A computer hack shut down the country’s largest gas conduit and triggered panic hoarding that exacerbated shortages.
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If smugness could be bottled and burned, East Coast drivers would have had no problems this week.
The stuff was spewing out of Teslas, Nissan Leafs and every other electric vehicle silently zooming past dry gas pumps and frantic drivers filling all manner of receptacles with fast-dwindling fuel. When hoarders turned to plastic bags, the righteousness of the clean, green observers, no doubt, hit the redline.