The reports also said that completelt electric cars are too expensive for the average person and will remain so for some years top come.
Moreover, most of our electricity comes from coal-fired plants.
Disruption of Australian coal-mining by floods has caused an increase in coal prices, which have been rising in any case for the past two years.

Gasoline at $4-5 per gallon would cause people to rethink options? Nonsense. Canadians are used to that price range, and most Europeans would consider $5 dollar gasoline reasonable. Truckers are hurt, but the problem in the U. S. and Canada is the poor status of railroad transit; too much of our commercial transit is on highways. Improvement of railroads would take 20 years.

In the western U. S. and Canada, people are used to long distance travel; to get from Calgary city centre to the next city centre (Edmonton) is some 300 miles; no electric car today can do that.
Even travel from the northern limit of Calgary to the southern limit
and back exceeds the capacity of pure electric cars.

As noted in a post above, even the hybrid Prius is hard put to carry the kids, and their hockey or ski equipment, and is useless if a trip to the cabin or ski run in the mountains is contemplated.
I'll stick with my handy, comfortable, all-purpose SUV and, like most people here, don't worry overmuch about gasoline prices.