Imagine when your area loses power from a storm or tornado, hurricane, or an accident.
Good point. But to be fair, often when there's a hurricane the power is out for many square miles sometimes for a week. That includes powering gas pumps. My daughter has experienced that near the gulf.
Tornadoes are different. Yes, they bring down power lines too. But usually (not counting the April 2011 tornado Alabama experienced, that's an outlier) it's very localized and only one or two gas stations will have no power for a couple of days (easy to go to another gas station).
However, if your house isn't damaged and if you have solar panels and a fairly sizeable battery storage, your power doesn't go out (assuming you don't sign up for the power buyback program which forces your system to shut off when the grid goes down). That's what happens for me when the power goes out. I currently don't have an EV and my current system is powerful enough to power only 55% of the power my all-electric house needs. The saving alone from the 1st year has taught me it'll pay for itself in 10-11 years (including paying interest on the HELOC I took out to buy the solar system).
If I get an EV I plan to upgrade it until it provides about 90% of my power, including my EV use. It's not worth upgrading if I don't get an EV -- I'm running against the law of diminishing returns. But an EV changes the math. The cost of an EV truck like the low end F-150 Lightning (relative to the cost of every 5 or so years buying an old used pickup truck like I've done for decades), the miles per kWh vs the mpg, the cost per kWh vs cost per gallon of gas, but getting about 85% to 90% of my power from the solar system, interest on car payments for the first time in decades, increase in my car insurance, but saving on oil changes, etc. And it would all pay for itself on about the 12th year. And because 90% of my power would be for free I'd drive it most of the time even when the power goes out, even if the Dims force the whole country to experience power blackouts like 3rd world countries such as California experience.
To me it's not a green energy vs fossil fuel argument or gas car vs EV argument. It's about how much ownership of my own needs can I take on so I worry less about gubment control of our lives. More and more it's become clear that the Dims are using energy to control us. So more and more I want to be energy independent in ways that'll pay for itself in 10 or so years.