Driving to work 110 miles a day meant I had to get gas once per week, driving out of my way, stopping to get gas cost me 500 minutes per year as opposed to the two seconds to plug in at home. Totally a no brainer. I HATED stopping for gas on the way home from work at 11 in the evening, or whatever hour really. I think of people tied to ICE engines the way people were tied to outhouses a hundred years ago.
You have to look at other body language components along with the lick. This is a lick is missing some stress signals that may mean it’s less anxiety driven or only partly anxious. A video would be more informative.
There is no whale eye here (whites of the eyes), eyebrows are ‘somewhat’ relaxed (not totally sleepy relaxed, but not ridgidly flexed either), ears are not flattened/down in an anxious position (see the linked article below for stressed vs relaxed face and note Clara’s whale eye, folded ears, and eyebrows in the stressed image).
xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas ( xkcd.com )
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xkcd #2907: Schwa ( imgs.xkcd.com )
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Apparently, the tongue lick means the dog is anxious, but it is cute. ( lemmy.world )
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xkcd #2846: Daylight Saving Choice ( imgs.xkcd.com )
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