From a retail pov I guess. But there are a lot of things going on behind the scenes that really affect the final price. And the justification for those is entirely dependent on climate change.

The EPA, if you ask about any engine designer, is outlawing IC engines thru regulation. Nothing they have recently done or are proposing for the future will have much of any effect on human health. But they are really driving up the cost to make an engine legal.

And the ptb are intentionally trying to make petro more expensive. No, the democrats/Biden admin is not deliberately trying to wreck the US. But they did take steps to lower the supply. Add to that our handling of Russia? It just plain got away from them. They were told what might happen...

Add to that a gov restriction on IC engine r&d funds. And the redirecting of those funds and much more to batteries/storage research? And the tax breaks for buying electric.

It all adds up to making engines more expensive to own and operate. And they told us they were going to do it. Now? They should be realizing that every nation is going to take energy where they can get it. India and China have lots of coal and almost no petro. They're going electric long term. But by using coal there isn't any environmental positive.

Us? I think a mixed fleet is in our future. Using natural gas and coal to generate electricity. A minor plus for climate but it's what we have.