{"id":251253,"date":"2024-05-18T15:43:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T15:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/what-to-tell-family-friends-neighbors-so-they-dont-buy-another-gas-car\/"},"modified":"2024-05-18T15:43:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T15:43:15","slug":"what-to-tell-family-friends-neighbors-so-they-dont-buy-another-gas-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/what-to-tell-family-friends-neighbors-so-they-dont-buy-another-gas-car\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Tell Family, Friends, &#038; Neighbors So They Don\u2019t Buy Another Gas Car!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>No one should be buying a gas car these days. Here\u2019s a list of reasons you can use to convince your family, friends, and neighbors to buy an electric car next time they need a new vehicle.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_330207\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-330207\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-330207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1: How long before gas cars find themselves in this state? Photo by Fritz Hasler.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Electric cars are a new, soon-to-be-dominant technology<\/strong>. Once you drive and own an EV, you will realize what an incredible paradigm shift they are. It is as big a shift as tube TVs to flat-screen TVs, landlines to smart phones, and Atlantic ship crossing to crossing in a jet plane. It\u2019s almost as big as the shift from horse &amp; buggy to automobile. Get with the program! Sale of gas cars will be banned in Norway next year and after 2035 in California! It won\u2019t be long before the value of your gas car will be <em>zero<\/em>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/18\/what-to-tell-family-friends-neighbors-so-they-dont-buy-another-gas-car\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at cleantechnica.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! No one should be buying a gas car these days. Here\u2019s a list of reasons you can use to convince your family, friends, and neighbors to buy an electric car next time they need a new vehicle. Figure 1: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":251254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What To Tell Family, Friends, &amp; Neighbors So They Don\u2019t Buy Another Gas Car! - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/18\/what-to-tell-family-friends-neighbors-so-they-dont-buy-another-gas-car\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What To Tell Family, Friends, &amp; Neighbors So They Don\u2019t Buy Another Gas Car!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. 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