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>Trans. Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently recommended that people struggling with gas buy an electric car

I got a hybrid, which were discounted when nobody wanted them when gas prices were in the toilet in late 2020.

A non-plug-in hybrid that gets 40-50 mpg is (or was just before the current car shortage) the most economic option according to my best calculations. Once I tried to estimate the fossil fuels that go into food and stuff and found riding a bicycle is not a lot better or worse than a 50 mpg car with one person in it.

Everybody seems to have an excuse for doing something else though. I have to admit that it took me years before I followed my own logic, but I finally did (because I found something I liked better than a Prius with similar mpg).

A non-plugin hybrid has 1% of the electric range, so I don't think the difference in battery size vs. a full electric is unimportant. Batteries get better, but the ratio, not so much.