The rolling blackout happening in Texas ought to be proof that our current energy and environmental policies would not allow any significant expansion of rechargeable electric vehicles or even the electrified motorways envisioned in this article. We have wasted billions building wind farms, solar collectors and ethanol plants while environmental regulations have stymied the building of new fossil fuel plants, hydroelectric dams and nuclear power plants. Now we have to import electricity from Mexico just to make ends meet. While the US has more oil than Saudi Arabia, we must import most of our oil because of government regulations, now these regulations are forcing us to import electricity too.