“Create a need and a solution will follow” is a social tenet, not a scientific or engineering one. It amounts to “make them suffer and somebody will do something about it.”
Yes. I understand the dynamic quite well when something is occurring where there is no ready solution, and resources and money must be brought to bear, people must sacrifice, and solutions must be found.
This is NOT one of those situations.
This is a political problem with a forced and unnecessary solution.
I am all for production of electric cars, and I don’t judge anyone if an EV suits their need and they wish to purchase one.
But it steams me to have this forced on us. I live in one of those 17 brain-dead states that are going to outlaw the sale of ICE vehicles.
No big deal, I will probably be dead by then, but if I weren’t, I would go out of state and buy a car.
But I know what they are going to do. They will impose some kind of excise tax on it, or...they will simply make it impossible to register the car in the state.
Or both.
Damn, I DESPISE these Leftist tyrants.
And that “political problem” is government control and money for government scum.