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Electric vehicles were never about the environment. It’s about damaging businesses. It’s about control. It’s about POWER. And, it’s about having something to scold people about. The first electric car drivers were smug. They were saving the planet and the rest of us were horrible a$$holes just polluting THEIR world.

Now when I see an electric car I look to see if it’s smoking.

It’s about control. It’s about POWER.

Exactly.

Throughout history, the driving necessity has been food. Whoever controlled the food supply, controlled the people. In the last century, for the first world, the driving necessity has been power (in the engineering sense, not the political sense), but controlling engineering power is the current means to achieve political power.

Using carbon, and in particular carbon dioxide, as a means to control power is perfect - for the tyrants. *Breathing* releases CO2, so once they establish that all CO2 emission must be controlled, they establish that all human activity must be controlled.

To that end, they need to ignore any pollution that does not release CO2, and continue to restrict anything that provides power for ordinary people. For that reason, they still won't accept nuclear power.

One of my little touch phrases is: Hybrid cars are for people who are bad at math. Electric cars are for people who are bad at science. (Or for people who want to rigid, authoritarian control over the decisions made by the vast, 'unenlightened' masses.)