09-02-2020, 11:19 AM
Just because (if) new petrol / diesel cars aren't sold doesn't mean there won't still be old ones on the road. Even so, if we ever do reach that point I imagine a certain stigma will attach to running smelly old cars, and doubtless there will be more brainless scrappage schemes aimed at hauling them off the road ASAP. Petrol isn't like spare parts, only licensed traders will be able to store / dispense it. No doubt some will hang on to the bitter end, but they would only have value as long as there is one every couple of hundred miles or so. I have high hopes that western civilisation as we know it will be over by then anyway and we'll have other things to worry about.