We ask reasonable reality based questions over and over and over and THEY move their agenda ahead over and over and over. This has got to change at some point.
“They” are able to implement their agenda because the implementation “experts” are civil servants (there’s an oxymoron) shielded by political appointees who: 1) lack real expertise in functions of the agencies they are supposed to lead, and 2) are more interested in implementing their party’s agenda than in understanding and implementing policies that actually advance the public’s interests.
They have names. Let them be called individually to account for their bad policies. No more faceless bureaucrats hiding behind political hack PR shields.
Going back to the topic at hand, the one factor lacking in this discussion is the element of time. Specifically, the time it took to build out the fossil fuel infrastructure.
The first gasoline powered automobiles appeared just before the end of the 19th Century. Horses were still in use in Europe and the Americas into the 1920s-1930s. The Germans built the Autobahn in the late 1930s, and the US interstate highway system began construction as a government-funded post-WWII project in the 1940s. The buildout of the complete fossil fuel (gasoline and diesel) delivery system from wellhead to fuel tank began about the time of the first automobile and has continued through many iterations down to the present day. Similarly, the modern automobile is the product of more than a century of development by some of the best mechanical and material engineers on the planet. Successive generations of improvement have been built on decades of experience and mass use age data.
Yet the energy policy wonks and their political enablers think that directing a mandatory change and sprinkling some government funding on it will solve the problem immediately. That law and money will cause the electrical equivalent of all that fossil fuel infrastructure to instantly (relatively speaking) spring into existence. And they will continue believe in their power to mandate transition until we, the People, take governing power away from their political enablers, revoke the laws and regulations being used to drive these changes, and clean out the agenda-driven civil servants who will subvert any attempts to change course.