A lot of talk about EV, electric vehicles, but public transportation is where they’re really pushing towards. EV is a ruse, as evidenced by their hate for nuclear and coal both essential to expanding the power grid to accommodate EV charging requirements, it ain’t happening.
EV are very expensive, and as the wildfires over the last couple of years in CA showed, the government can cost you both your home AND your car when they shut off the power to stop the spread of fires.
So much of our electricity (over 1/3) is still provided by coal; their arguments make no sense. It is just a war on private vehicles - and detached single-family homes (as well as the children that fill them).
It is an open attempt to lower our standard of living.
Public transportation became a much more difficult “sell” for most Americans during the COVID fiasco. The lockdowns and restrictions made people understandably fearful about riding buses and trains. And it’s impossible to justify the cost of building and operating a mass transit system when many of the people who used to be the core ridership of these systems can do their work remotely most or all of the time.