| There's broke and there's broke. One of my in-laws bought a house in the suburbs. She kept her low-wage job downtown, despite pay being average for her vocation, and she could easily get a job closer to her new home. So now she has a long commute, and decided to get a petrol car. Despite knowing very well that petrol is taxed heavily and electricity is cheap here in Norway, petrol cars have significantly higher road tax and congestion charge than EVs here. The distance she needs to commute is well within what even a first-gen Leaf could do during winter, so she had plenty of EV options. She also knew the job had no parking for employees, so she has to park at a public parking facility, which downtown costs a fortune. Basic math skills shows that between the petrol, the road tax and congestion charge and the parking, that car is costing her half her daily paycheck each time she goes to work. Didn't take long after she got the car till she started complaining she was "broke each month". |