There will be a carbon tax in this next tern gasoline will be $10 plus like Europe that’s how they get people out of their ICE make it so only the upper class can afford them. Add in increasing EPA limits on gas station emissions of hydrocarbons so the retrofit cost is so high stations shut down or switch to hydrogen or electric just to stay open. Passive resistance is not going to work, they will crush that with the bureaucratic state. Chevron will be ignored why because no one will physically stop them. Good luck you are going to need it. I have an EV as a prepper thing they can never shut off the Sun and my solar systems now plural make more than my homestead can use if the grid is down I just throw power away. It amazes me that so called conservatives don’t embrace off grid energy as a pillar of the personal independence movement. Every one of my hardcore prepper friends has a full.off grid set up plus a lot of us also have battery and propane back ups AND not OR is the mindset.
I agree with most of what you say.
“I have an EV as a prepper thing they can never shut off the Sun”
But they can shut down the car at will. Without all the gizmos, gadgets and doodads, the car won’t run. And should the worst happen, the car won’t be able to be fixed should it break.
Other than that, yes, personal off grid power is a great thing to have.
Beyond my means, now and way beyond the millions who live in any highrise.
So as you say, good luck we will need it.