[djao]

An apples to apples comparison means ... you should be picking cars that are roughly equal in price. You didn't. So it isn't an apples to apples comparison. You're contradicting yourself.

Look up what the word "average" means. If you are accusing Tesla buyers of buying privileged expensive cars, then you are necessarily also accusing the vast majority of new car buyers of the same thing. There's no way around it.

Toyotas and Kias are not representative of average new cars in America. Teslas are.

[mckn1ght]

Apples to apples means comparing based off of the objectively observable traits of the cars in question: seating and storage capacity, etc. The price of the cars is more or less arbitrary. Comparing cars on price alone makes no sense. A porsche 911 is multiple times the cost of a minivan, does that mean its utility is that many times higher than a minivan for a family of 4?

[djao]

The point remains. If a Tesla is a privileged expensive purchase then so is the average new car. There is no possible way of refuting this statement. It is simply mathematically unavoidably true.

[semiquaver]

The fallacy you demonstrated is called “begging the question” or “assuming the conclusion”.

[djao]

The point remains. If a Tesla is a privileged expensive purchase then so is the average new car. There is no possible way of refuting this statement. It is simply mathematically unavoidably true.