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In response to "Walmarts are installing charging stations. It’s going to happen. It’s like most things in that it suddenly becomes a tipped scale. -- nm" by Qale

I hope it results in a crunch for petrol. Curious to see how that would go.

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Apr 11 '23, 14:29

Electricity and roads are a perfect match: both of them are abstractions that have very flexible uses.

Petrol is a whole other thing. It's a single-purpose consumable with massive infrastructure needs to support it; when the demand subsides, that infrastructure will have to stand down.

No, I don't think it'll fully go away any time soon. But with any luck, it'll begin to get less prevalent. Begin fading into irrelevance, like compact discs.

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I think that Petrol = gasoline in your single use write up. The consumer facing portions (petrol stations) will stand down - JD Apr 11, 14:43 1
- Correct. But winding down the consumer stations allows a lot of related infrastructure to stand down. - Beryllium Apr 11, 16:31

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I hope it results in a crunch for petrol. Curious to see how that would go.

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