I’m guilty of “Fat Fingers” at times.
But seriously, I want to be able to drive 100+ mph on trips without a Po-Po rectal exam.
I'm a bit fearful of the political class' manipulation of energy regulations to control us, at least through pricing of energy. Particularly the Dims. So a few months after Biden took office and issued EO's making it harder to drill for oil and natural gas, I started doing the math on my particular situation and if solar would be good to take away part of the burden. (It's very much a custom analysis thing, don't do it just because it works for me.) I had a small solar system for a year to play with it, liked the throughput and the results, and upgraded it in 2022. That was the same year it was time to replace my wife's gas crossover anyway, so I replaced it with an EV crossover. (Again, if you do the same and if it's going to be your new car and thus your favorite for taking road trips, make sure it's best for most of your trips like I did.) I also converted my two natural gas appliances to electric ones, making the new appliances being very efficient, doing other energy efficiency improvements on the home, and incorporating data from my solar inverters (which I imported into a SQL Server database so I could query the stew out of it). The added power load of the EV and the new electrical appliances was part of the math on how much to upgrade the solar without going too far (I wanted to utilize economies of scale, but not fight the law of diminishing returns).
End result: 80% of our power consumption is from solar. Only 20% of our power has to be pulled from the grid (most of that during the 4 coldest months). That's for a 2,300 sq ft all electric home and charging the EV to drive 16K miles (just the home charged miles, not counting the road trip charged miles). All of that means my power bills last year totaled $1,010, averaging $84/month. (Call it about $1,100, or $97/month if I wasn't making a little money selling excess power to the grid, especially during the summer months.) No natural gas bills. And almost no gasoline costs (what little we drive the gas pickup).
No bureaucrat is ever going to do that kind of research to figure out what's best for your situation and make it cost efficient. I'm as drill,baby,drill as it gets (I also believe we should mine too, not just coal but rare earths). But how long is Trump going to be in office? IMHO the best long term solutions to our problems with the political class is for each of us to do what we can to make ourselves more independent of the things the govt over regulates. Right now, energy is their favorite weapon to over regulate and control us a little more and a little more like slow boiling the frog. And the EV helps me escape most of that by utilizing the only energy I can produce on my own: electricity.
Here's another way to put it. Of the 22,000+ kWh I consumed last year, because only 4,000+ kWh was pulled from the grid, the govt doesn't know about the other 18,000 kWh consumed.