For the last few weeks, we’ve been running a sidebar survey about whether our Electrek believed there might be some silver lining to the record-breaking fuel prices following the start of the war in Iran. After nearly 2,000 responses, here’s what you told us.

In case you missed the survey, the question read, “they say that every dark cloud has a silver lining, and the recent run of record fuel prices certainly seems like a dark cloud. Can we put a positive spin on it? In other words: what’s the silver lining of $7/gallon gas?”

Longtime reader Harry Tuttle immediately understood that, unlike most of our sidebar surveys, this one had a right answer.

My longstanding love the music of The Who and Peter Weller notwithstanding, I believe there is something to be said for commuting on a lightweight two-wheeler that gets over 100 mpg and looks like a million bucks. And, while Vespa parent company Piaggio seems to have decided that people should pay $7,999 for an electric steel body, companies like Aventura X make convincingly Vespa-ish composite (read: plastic) machines with usable range and electric drive.

More than 60% of you said that, if there was a silver lining to more expensive gas, it would be more mainstream interest in hybrid and electric vehicle adoption – with the 12% of you choosing the “fewer lifted 4×4” option arguably saying the same thing.

Its been amusing to me to see the lifted trucks that are normally a big problem in the slow lane going 10 under on the interstate.

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