Breakdown of UK Public/Private and EV/ICE Per Mile Costs:
* Home (Off-Peak EV Tariff): ~3p per mile
* Home (Standard Standard Variable Tariff): ~8p per mile
* Standard Public EV: ~15p per mile
* Petrol Car: ~17p per mile
* Diesel Car: ~17.5p per mile
* 50kW+ DC Public EV: ~22p to 23p per mile
I'm currently paying around 95p/litre for gas, which works out at around 23p per mile, in something with a 4.6 litre V8 that's registered as a low-emission vehicle (so cheaper tax) that mostly gets used to drag heavy trailers about the place.
If I need to use a car it's because I'm unlikely to be doing less than double-digit miles to somewhere with no public transport.
If I pop out to the supermarket for groceries, I wouldn't even think of cycling. It's quicker to walk...
At the moment for an ICE @ 40 MPG it's ~22.6p per mile for diesel in the UK
Imagine how clean our cities could have been if 20 years ago the government had gone down the route of getting people to convert cars to gas, instead of giving them a couple of quid to scrap them and buy a "cleaner greener" diesel.
EU's Energy Tax Directive (ETD) enforces a rigid minimum excise duty of €0.330 (33 cents) per litre on auto-diesel used as a propellant. Ireland's VAT rate is 23%. Pre-tax costs account for about 62% and various government taxes/levies account for 38%.
It's running at about €2.16/l in Ireland so that's about $9.30/gallon today. It's €2.70 in Germany and around €2.50 in Greece. For reference Greece's statutory gross minimum wage is €920 per month and Germany's is about €2,400. People are going to starve/freeze this Winter.
Convert everything to run on LPG.