I hope they're not successful. I don't think they'll be fully successful (i.e. completely eliminate ICE cars). However I do fear they'll tax them or the gas put into them enough to make driving ICE cars infeasible. Think Jizya tax in some Muslim countries applied to people who won't bow to the "right" religion.
But if it gets to that point I guess I'll have to stick to either local driving or trips no longer than 250-300 miles round trip.
You're preaching to the choir. I prefer ICE cars over EV's in most scenarios. And I hate the Dims forcing a one-size-fits-all policy instead of letting us make our own choices. And if I could drill and refine my own oil I would. But I can't. Since it's clear the Dims are intent on implementing their stupid war on energy, I took it on myself to implement capturing the one energy source available to me: solar. It's nowhere nearly as efficient as oil or natural gas or coal. But those other energy sources have one very unfortunate characteristic: my access to them is vulnerable to the polices of the Dims. Solar is different. God is the only "bureaucrat" I have to worry about making sure solar is available. And I'm the only "regulator" that manages what happens with the solar that hits our property (i.e. power the house, charge the home batteries, and charge the EV, and at an optimum configuration for our power consumption habits to minimize how often we have to pull from the grid).
Admittedly that's not a good option for a lot of people, especially people who don't live in the south. But for us it works well (80% of all the power we need comes from solar, including charging the EV for our local driving and the first 250 miles of trips). It'd be infeasible for now to try to be 100% energy independent -- I'd rather keep buying the other 20% or so of the power we need. But I have a backup plan for being 100% energy independent without reducing our lifestyle if the Dims force it to that point.
As it is with 2 years of owning solar and 1 year of owning the EV, I have lots of data from my inverters on power consumption/power pulled from grid/power obtained from solar/power charged to batteries/power discharged from batteries, etc. All recorded in 5-minute candles that I export weekly and import into a homemade TSQL database (this part is easy for us code jockeys). I then compare it to miles driven in the EV, gas price as it fluctuates at the cheapest of local gas stations, etc. Even if from here on the Dims allow energy costs to go up only a reasonable 3% YOY inflation rate, the overall energy project will pay for itself 10 years from now with the savings in many ways vs. the costs (of which there were plenty too). In effect, I've moved most of our future unknown energy costs and replaced them with a fixed known cost. That assists my long-term retirement financial planning. I wish I could do that with all future costs and not just energy costs.
johnny one note.