I think that gasoline diluted with ethanol is one of the most pervasive examples of how the wealth has been stolen from us.
There are multiple ways to view it, but the simplest way to think of it is that folks spend more currency for less gasoline at the pump.
The price of gasoline changing doesn't matter if it keeps getting diluted. The real price of gasoline is the 100% pure stuff. Bucc-ee's tends to have it for less than $4/gal, but most stations sell it for $4/gal and up. Plus, it's an effort to find it. Most gas stations sell only adulterated gasoline.
Just my two cents.
Just tossing out a slight correction - gas cars will soon be positioned as luxuries for the rich. EVs will be the common goy car, as they are easy to electronically limit and functionally cannot compete on range.
This has already happened in certain countries, e.g. China, where most of the country's people's first car was an EV that could be purchased for an insanely low cost, with the 'only' limit being that they stay with X minutes of a large city.
They've never known the go-anywhere fix-anywhere with analogue tools freedom of a gas car, and will never be able to afford one. Even ford shitboxes cost 3 times an decked-out EV over there. Mid-tier BMWs can cost a half million, in USD.