Did you know that it only costs $485 a year to drive an electric car, but a gas powered vehicle costs $1,117 yearly? (Electric vs. Gas Cars: Is It Cheaper to Drive an EV?, 2024)
This means that if you drive a gas powered car you are paying 632 more dollars yearly than someone with an electric car! (Electric vs. Gas Cars: Is It Cheaper to Drive an EV?, 2024)
Electric vehicle vs. gas vehicle recurrentauto.com
U.S. consumed 137.05 billion gallons of gasoline in 2023. (US Gasoline Consumption, 2025)
coltura.org
The average price of gas in 2023 was $3.52 per gallon, meaning the the U.S. spent roughly four hundred eighty-two billion four hundred sixteen million dollars on gasoline in 2023.
In 2022, the U.S. government spent a total of $419.8 billion (in 2022 dollars) on transportation. (Transportation Economic Trends: Government Transportation Expenditures, 2025)
Source: itdp.org
Source: itdp.org
Scan here to for more information abot the transportation industry's cost impact: