“ It’s my way of giving my retirement financial planning a cushion against the Dims’ stupid energy policies jacking up our energy costs.”
Sounds like the enviro-extremist strategy is working as planned - manipulate the price of conventional fuels and ICE vehicles, to the point where it appears that the electric option is less expensive, and the consumer is forced into that choice.
With that said, it’s obvious you made some thoughtful and very intelligent decisions regarding your EV purchase and future energy strategy. You’ve decided what works best for you. Outside of the government intervention aspect, that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
For what it's worth, there's a slowly growing population of conservatives with EV's that I meet at charging stations. Part of that is because I live in the southeast (any trip we make within driving range is liable to have a more conservative population, even at EV chargers). A few of them got an EV strictly to save on gas. Most of the conservative EV owners, however, bought the EV for mid-life crisis reasons. These things truly are fun to drive. LOL
Another reason I got the EV is to give my wife and me a diversification on energy needs. If the Dims make gas too hard to come buy and/or too expensive (IMHO it still is), we have the EV. Or if the Dims make power hard to come by and/or too expensive, we have the ICE pickup to handle long trips. If the Dims make both power and gas hard to come by, we have our solar for our local driving ("local" being 250 mile round trip). However, most of the people I meet at EV chargers are hard core liberals who thank me for doing my part in saving the world. I sometimes show them this:
As far as solar users go, there's a faster growing contingent in the south of conservatives getting solar for exactly the reason I did and not at all thinking we're saving the world. Think more prepper, less cow fart fear monger.