Comment Gasoline Will Always Compete with Electric (Score 1) 360
It'll be a long while until gasoline is so expensive that updating the power grid to handle electric cars makes sense.
The same upgraded power grid or the nuclear reactors that would certainly be involved in powering it, since no other method would even come close despite what the wind and solar boosters would have you believe, could also be used to produce artificial gasoline from coal, natural gas or even sea water feedstocks using gas to liquids technologies. The US Navy is exploring these same technologies to produce jet fuel from sea water and have had some success on an experimental scale.