I appreciate your comment but your premise is untrue and flawed, let's examine: The splitter tool costs $899, With a 4ah Battery $999. This is hundreds of dollars cheaper than an equivalent gas power machine with a much smaller weight and profile. The battery alone costs $179. Electric wins the acquisition cost. The batteries can be recharged several thousand times before losing any of their capacity. For the sake of this break down let's use 2500 cycles. A 4ah battery will power this tool for several hours continuously before needing to be recharged. This is roughly equivalent to a gallon of gas in a gas machine. A gallon of gas is, currently, about $3. Therefore, to use a gas powered machine for equal time the fuel cost will be about $7500 [$3 x 2500 gallons]. $7500 will buy about 42 batteries. Electric wins the fuel cost. Agas powered machine will require a lot of maintenance over 2500 gallons of gas. A brushless electric motor is FAR less complex than a gas engine and will require virtually no maintenance [cleaning and care]. Electric wins the maintenance cost. This is not a scam, it is a sound financial decision. Using solar power, this machine is a free to operate fire and forget solution. A one time cost that is more reliable, will last longer and is far cheaper to run than a gas machine.