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Attention over time

7-day rolling share of analyzed posts/comments mentioning this entity · 90 daily points ending 2026-10-05

Final complete day: 2026-10-05. Attention was 0.2% — this entity appeared in 16 of 7,698 analyzed posts/comments in the seven days ending that day (17 mentions).

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1. 2026-10-05 23:37 UTCComment

   If you like specific cars, getting a traditional gasoline powered engine makes sense.

2. 2026-10-05 23:03 UTCComment

   > Yes gas is expensive, but as income increases, gas prices become more regressive and tend to not matter as much. Not only this, but accounting for inflation gasoline in America hasn’t risen much or has actually gotten cheaper depending on what specific data point you pick. $4.50/gal 10+ years ago is a lot more than $4.50/gal in 2026.

3. 2026-10-05 22:38 UTCComment

   Toyota lost me as a Camry customer when they started offering only Hybrid versions. Give me a 4 cylinder gasoline engine that lasts 200K+ miles and I’m happy. When I buy a car I buy to keep it for as long as possible. I know a lot of people are not like that, so I’m sure auto manufacturers aren’t going to cater to the minority. And they know a 200K mile car means less return business. I don’t want nicer interior trim, and more features that I was perfectly fine without for 20 years. I want maximum reliability. And I can tell you that interior material quality has gone down. Every manufacturer’s interior is more “plasticy” than ever. And no thanks to everything having a screen (or screens). It will be one more thing that will be expensive to fix when it fails. I get it, the manufacturers are scrambling to have the most features, but it’s raising the cost of even the base models. And overall longevity seems to not be what it used to be. Big companies care about growth and being more profitable than last quarter, not making a car that ensures that customer won’t need to buy another one for 20 years. Despite your confidence, I am confident less and less cars are reaching 300K miles. I know it takes maintenance to make it that far but it’s usually just that, maintenance. Rather than replacing a motor or transmission that has failed. I think you’re giving the auto makers too much credit when you say automakers are offering these improvements without raising prices. New cars have never been more expensive.

4. 2026-10-05 18:34 UTCComment

   Sure, but I assume the ends of the study are supposed be for informing oil prices and demand, just from the name of the website. There are "pure combustion" cars that will burn less fuel over their lifetime than a hybrid - like a pure combustion 1.0L euro/SE asain econobox will assuredly burn less fuel, and normally outsell a hybrid Tundra. if the question is “what does this mean for oil demand?”, then excluding hybrids and looking only at drivetrain sales share is a pretty weak metric, as without hybrids included in "pure combustion" you cant be assured that the percentage of share changing having an actual effect on oil demand or climate impact. While if hybrids *were* included, there couldn't *be* a disconnect. Excluding hybrids means a falling “pure combustion” share does not even guarantee that the new-vehicle cohort's gasoline consumption fell. Including conventional hybrids in the gasoline-burning category wouldn't quantify the size of the reduction, but it would remove that particular disconnect of displacement of that combined category by BEVs necessarily reduces the number of newly sold vehicles dependent on gasoline for propulsion.

5. 2026-10-05 17:15 UTCComment

   That isn't what you asked, though. The question is the question you asked in your post, where you are building a straw-man argument that the "other 50%" are some monoculture that is making an irrational decision, and asking why. I am quoting a portion of your post to respond to and saying that no, the other 50% is not a monoculture, and in my particular case, I am part of it, and am actually quite sensitive to gasoline prices. My response to gasoline prices is to continue to drive infrequently and drive small, fuel-efficient cars. I am a late-adopter to new technology and likely won't be buying an electric car for a long time still.