Do you think when electric cars become the norm eventually electricity prices will match gas prices?

Yes, but not like people here seem to think. When gas prices get too high, people will start buying electric cars with a lead acid battery system as they are cheap to buy, cheap to run, reliable, and durable. They are not fast or sexy, but they will get you to the bank, grocery store and work for little money. Electric cars which use exotic metals in their batteries will be available for much more money. For the price of these, gas will be better for a long time. However, lead-acid battery powered cars will be much much cheaper, and are available today. Try ebay. My household has a 1982 comutacar and a mustang. We rarely run the mustang as most of our needs are very local.

Actually, there already is a shortage of electical generation in many areas. Look at California, which has not only outlawed generation of electricity with almost everything (Coal, nuclear, hydroelectric, diesel), but has even outlawed the importation of electricity from other states that produce it that way. On the optimistic side, MIT is in development of an electric slurry which will take the place of batteries in cars and will generate something like five times as much energy per pound as currrent lithium batteries. So in ten years or so, electricity may be viable. If solar technology develops also, it may be possible to generate your car with your garage roof.

There's a very good reason why electricity is so much cheaper than gasoline (almost 5 times cheaper). It takes electricity to make gasoline. * According to the Department of Energy, it takes about 6 kilowatt-hours of electricity to refine a single gallon of gasoline. This is very close to the same amount of electricity it takes to charge the battery of an electric car for the same driving distance. * This is why gasoline will always be more expensive than gasoline - and why an electric car will always pollute less.

i agree... this was pretty obvious when a majority of the big names in the oil business (T. Boone Pickens, etc) immediately started investing in the renew-ables sector. Eventually they will try and find a way to control that market as well....guess only time will tell!

Your absolutely right.... Governments have always had a habit of increasing prices of whatever has a lot of demand and is a necessity.... All energy sources are examples of this....

You got it, these electric cars will never be cheaper than gasoline never. Sure but not all cars will need charged at once just like all fuel powered vehicles never need filled up at once. If there is demand we will build more power plants to match demand that is the way it has always been and always will be, and we will have to pay for the new plants at the charging station every time we charge up, these electric cars will not save us money if thats what you are asking. They will kinda help the environment, but not a lot, they still have tires, lithium batteries and many other parts that are hazardous so are they really that much better?