I agree to a point.
It isn’t the US government making to calls though. If you look at the world wide car production, US manufacturers aren’t going to have a choice.
But…I think the only way they get enough inexpensive energy is clean nukes. It will be amusing to watch them twist themselves into pretzels arguing that.
In my opinion, if you zoom out on this issue you will see the US economic power just unraveling at the seams. And, I think most Americans are so disinterested they will never see it coming. (Not YOU, but the folks at the grocery stores not understanding how things work.)
If I lived in Europe in an urban area where you don’t have to drive far, EVs might make sense.
But what happens when the cars are not reliable in cold weather climates, what then? Think of the ramifications on where people live, much as A/C led to mass migrations to the South.