If the government wants to limit our energy supply to control us, all they have to do it nationalize the oil industry. They don't need to go to the trouble of ramming EVs down our throats.
The petroleum industry is far more centralized than electricity generation and is actually an easier target for government overreach and tyranny.
That is all true.
However, in a Constitutional Republic such as ours, nationalizing the oil industry is tantamount to coming out of the shadows and declaring up front what they plan to do.
Doing that without first defanging the 1st and 2nd Amendments would have a most incendiary result. Sure, there are a lot of sheep out there who aren’t paying attention, but...there are a lot of Americans who ARE paying attention, and many of those are advocates of both of those amendments.
It is MUCH safer for them over time, to lull us to sleep, make us believe there is such a thing as a “climate crisis” we need to address by reducing CO2 emissions, and that EVs are cool, the wave of the future, and emergently necessary to keep us from broiling or drowning.
It is always good, when boiling lobsters or chopping off the heads of chickens, not to let them see the boiling lobster pot or the stump and the hatchet!