The Day Gas Became History – A Letter from 2035
- Michael Alexander
- Mar 3
- 3 min read
Friends,
Ten years ago, in 2025, most of us still believed the future would look a lot like the past — just with slightly better batteries and longer charging cables.
We were wrong.
By early 2026, something quietly shifted. Wars in Venezuela, Gaza, and Iran had dragged on for half a decade. Oil prices didn’t just spike — they stayed spiked. $8, $10, sometimes $14 a gallon in parts of the world. In America, the average family was spending $600–$900 more per month just to drive to work and school. Something had to break.
And then it did.
Not with a revolution in batteries. Not with another promise of hydrogen.
It broke with corridors.
Wireless charging roads — thin, smart, embedded strips that delivered power while you drove. No plugs. No waiting. No range anxiety. Just drive, and your car quietly drinks energy the whole way.
Today in 2035, here’s what the world actually looks like:
Los Angeles The city that once wore its smog like a badge now breathes again. The 405 and 10 freeways have dedicated Super Volt corridors in the right lanes. Commuters report saving 40–60% on fuel costs. Asthma-related hospital visits in South LA and the San Fernando Valley dropped 41% in five years. Insurance companies quietly lowered rates for corridor-using EVs by 18–27% because accidents involving range anxiety and dead batteries virtually disappeared. Thousands of new jobs appeared — not just installing panels, but maintaining the corridors, building receiver pads, training technicians, and running the data systems that keep the sliding windows of power perfectly timed.
Chicago The Windy City leaned into its name. Winter used to kill EV range. Now, with corridors running from O’Hare through the Loop and out to the suburbs, people drive electric year-round. A study last year showed that families earning under $75k a year in the region saved an average of $2,840 annually on transportation. That money didn’t disappear — it went to groceries, rent, kids’ activities, and local businesses. The South and West Sides saw the biggest jump in EV adoption. Corridor maintenance crews became some of the best-paying union jobs available to people without college degrees.
Dallas Yes, Texas. The state that once ran on oil now leads the nation in corridor miles per capita. Oil workers didn’t lose jobs — they retrained into corridor installation, solar integration, and high-voltage systems. The economic ripple effect has been massive: lower logistics costs for trucking, cleaner air in DFW, and a surge in small businesses because people suddenly had extra cash and time. One study estimated that every $1 invested in Texas corridors returned $4.80 in economic activity within five years.
And the common person? The single mom in Inglewood. The warehouse worker in Joliet. The Uber driver in Mesquite. They all got a leg up. Lower monthly costs. Fewer sick days. More money staying in their neighborhoods instead of going to foreign oil. More time with family instead of sitting in gas lines or waiting at chargers.
The data is in:
Pediatric asthma cases in corridor cities dropped 34–48%.
Household transportation spending fell by an average of 52% for EV owners using corridors.
New green jobs in these regions grew 6–9× faster than the national average.
Insurance claims related to breakdowns and range issues plummeted.
We didn’t end oil wars. We simply made them irrelevant for daily life.
This wasn’t magic. It was engineers, dreamers, local governments, and everyday people saying: “We don’t have to keep doing it the old way.”
And now the question comes back to us in 2025:
Are we going to wait until gas hits $10 a gallon and the air is unbreathable… or are we going to start building the corridors now — while we still have the choice?
The future I just described isn’t guaranteed. But it’s possible.
What do you think — is your city ready for its own corridor? Which city do you think will be the first to fully transform? And most importantly: what would you do with the extra $300–$600 a month you’d save?
Drop your thoughts below. This conversation matters.
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