“Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE (auto manufacturers, drivers, mechanics, et al), needs to tell the government to bugger off with their edicts!!!!”
Nobody does this because the government is the Mafia, but with better retirement and dental. Companies have an operating certificate granted by the government. (Business license, etc.) Banks have a charter. Anyone is intimidated by the power of the IRS. If the IRS seizes your bank account you’re out of business.
What will stop the EV madness is the fact it simply can’t be done. It would require we increase by factors of five to fifteen, the output of things like coper, nickel (Russia is the world’s largest producer BTW). lithium, etc. Let’s not even mention that the power grid is at capacity. That’s why we sometimes get huge regional blackouts. All those electric cars would require a buildout of anywhere from thirty to sixty percent. If something cannot be done, it won’t be done. Relax, pour a drink and watch all of this go away.
Yep, it'd be great to see some electrical/civil engineers really dissect this and break down the true scale and costs. Of course, all we hear is crickets. Back around the time that the East Anglia University "Climategate" e-mails drove the greenies into hiding for almost two years, some of the lab coat-wearing scientist types at EPA went to Lisa Jackson/Richard Windsor and told her that they could not declare CO2 to be a regulated pollutant *based on the data*.
That didn't stop her because the actual science (or just plain old hard facts) don't matter. Power and control is all they care about - and the best interest of the nation and its citizens could not be further from the minds of the people pushing this crap. I'm sure that those EPA scientists got a nice transfer to a file room somewhere, or some other duty that was unmistakably punitive.