Rationing of electricity and control of movement. I would not be surprised if there are already plans to tie electricity ration quotas into a social credit score system to control behavior and speech.
Yes. Centralized control of the distribution of energy.
It’s a fascist thing. You vill buy one of zese nasty electric cars.
EV’s are inferior in every major category. They are machines for fools.
“What’s behind the push for electric vehicles?”
Just like Ukraine, it’s SPECIAL INTERESTS, people who can see themselves becoming rich (almost always at the expense of others) of so and so policy is enacted.
The job of politicians is to stand up to those interests, not JOIN THEM, as the Democrats do full-scale, and enough Republicans do to allow this crap to go through.
What’s behind it?
Idiocy...............
Duh... money?
What’s behind the push? The same thing that’s behind every other push from the government: control, and socialism (yes, I know, those terms are synonymous).
Money and control.
I want no part of EVs.
Don’t think of me as anti EV, I’m more ANTI child labor! Remember conflict or blood diamonds? Where’s the same concern for child mined cobalt? The Libs never discuss that one.... 🧐
The government will control the market because they will control the mining of rare metals and disposition of used batteries. You will be charged per mile driven PLUS charges at the stations.
First they came for the cars.
Now that apparently they are going to succeed in getting ICE vehicles off the road, they are moving on to what you eat.
I mark the transition back when someone decided that all toilets had to have reduced water usage, which I called at the time the 55 MPH toilet, since they came out about the same time. The Federal rule is 1.6 gallons per flush and older models would use up to 3.5 gallons.
This edict passed through with a minimum of resistance and it paved the way for all the other mandates and rules without citizen input.
The next rule will be rationing of gas and electricity.
What is behind the push? My guess is that ev manufacturers made lucrative deals with the govenrment, and co tribute heavily to the gov, and wanted the gov to mandate electric only so that they could profit big time just like Pfizer, Moderna, etc did
The push has absolutely nothing to do with the environment, or the climate, that is for sure- so the only other possible answer for the asinine push is $$
FACT: Artic ice borings going back over a hundred thousand years show climate change is constant!... Temps up, down...up, down...up, down...forever on earth....
AND WHERE WERE THE CARS????
Leftists always wanted to push the population to the cities. hey have never approved of the suburban way of life and the freedoms associated with that. They have always believed city life was utopia. Unfortunately the reality of their experiment has become obvious as Dems managed most cities. They are rife with crime, they are dirty, they have the worst schools and the highest taxes. They are easier to watch and surveil the residents, they like that.
That’s easy. It’s to control the mobility of the serfs. The owner-driven gasoline-powered vehicle gives people the ability to escape the blessings of their local government. The short range of EVs and their dependency on the government-managed power grid means the serfs will have to stay where they are, so that they can be properly managed.
It’s for their own good, you know.
The same thing that was behind the push to get rid of trolly cars and move to buses and automobiles in the 1950s - profit and the government advocating for certain politically-connected industries.
The long-term objective is to force the proles to live in densely packed urban areas, to push them onto mass transit to get around within their assigned area, and to force them to use government-run mass transit* if they want to leave their assigned area. Show us your travel papers, comrade!
(*Between the DHS, the TSA, and vaccine mandates, yeah, all mass transit is effectively government-run now.)
The end result, obviously, is to free up large tracts of formerly exurban and rural land to become estates and villas to be handed out as rewards to loyal Party members.