They really do act like they hate people having freedom of mobility.
They LOVED the lockdowns.
You need no further evidence than their punitive efforts. Once they started to get more EVs and hybrids on the road, they wanted to enact new laws to tax people by the mile for driving?
Of course, the simple explanation given for this was that they were losing tax revenue from gasoline sales.
WHAT HYPOCRISY IS THAT?
The fact that electricity will become increasingly more expensive due to higher demand, and also the fact that they could increase taxes on electrical supply doesn’t seem to jibe with the reality for them. Everything they do seems to punish human mobility (among many other things)
They need the serfs to stay on the manor.