From the land of oil, Dallas,
another similar prediction to Dan Neil’s

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/personal-finance/2019/01/01/future-now-comes-cars

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That, according to some, will be a lot sooner than most of us think.
"It saddens me to say it,"
former General Motors vice chairman Bob Lutz wrote in Automotive News last year,
"but we are approaching the end of the automotive era."
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If car prices and gas prices crash, the irresistible economic advantage of driving an electric car will diminish. Drivers will buy junkers. They will drive without collision insurance and joyously search for the cheapest gas pumps. They will take pride in keeping the old brutes on the road.
When the future arrives, much of it will look like the streets of Havana.
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