I suspect Gas is headed for $7 or 8. The Democrats need to make electric cars competitive somehow. Funny thing, though, If we go all electric vehicles the drain on the grid will be such that they are going to have to build more nuke plants or open up oil and gas drilling again. Wind an sun and Unicorns won’t cut it. Or, alternatively, it is to force us all off the road as the dollar gets smaller and smaller and no one outside of NYC and Silicon Valley can afford those zero emission wonders. Mobility of the citizenry has always grated on authoritarians and pushing us out of our cars and onto government transportation will be followed ̣(or preceded- re COVID vax) by internal passports openly or in some disguise.
Caliph Baraq showed that there was no problem getting re-elected with 4 dollar gas.
Kamalamadingdong Devi Gopalan-Harris may pull it off with 6 dollar gas.