SDElectrician said:
If you have the money to purchase an EV (or any vehicle for that matter) it is either because you own a business (in which case you would certainly understand this concept) or because you work for a company who is able to pay you a salary because they make a profit by charging more than it costs them to provide a product or service. I fail to see the correlation between a middle-man marking up a service and wars being profitable to some. I don't know of too many small business who make huge profits from wars, it's usually the politicians and their buddies.
Er, not to put to fine a point on it, but my company has
consistently been loosing money for over 10 years now and for decades before that, with only a brief period in the 1990s when we were profitable. Year after year, my company spends more than it takes in and yet here I am, buying a LEAF.
It doesn't mean I lack business acumen, however, and what I've observed is that many local, electrical contractors are self-employed. So, when they have a job that may pay Union Scale, they could just do the work themselves and keep all the profits in the business rather than having to pay it out to employees. This means the electrical contractors
are benefiting from the higher rates, but IMHO they are
not doing so willingly. I mean, sure, they like getting paid more, but very few electrical contractors want to build up a reputation of price gauging, as you've said. But if that's what they must be paid, that's what they must be paid. My point is simply, it's not a tug-of-war between small business and employee since most electrical contracting small businesses are run by a board-certified, bonded and licensed electrician who could do the work him- or herself, and for that kind of money, why wouldn't you?