bagheera:

 

tweake:

 

its not so much the pumping of gas but running the till's. you can't even pay with cash because none of their tills work.

 

 

 

the other thing here is that even with next to no gas in the car (assuming your silly enough to run it that empty in the first place), you can still drive a long way, probably far enough to get to a gas station that has power. in fact my work car is sitting on empty at the moment, but still has 150km range left.

 

 

 

 

good luck getting to an open pump station on 150km over northland goat track roads  - if you look at the area affected by this outage there are a lot of Northland greater than 150km, and trust me, that 150km over the last bit will be closer to 100km on the bad windy road that the replacement to the sh1

 

think about it a bit more. if anyone is way out in the sticks they don't run their cars down that much. also most farms have their own fuel supply. plus whats the need to go into town if there is no power at work? plus they would never be owning ev's so the comparison is non-existent. 

ice cars simply have longer range than ev's do, so when the fuel supply is out for either of them, its less of a problem for ice than it is for ev's.