They offered all these benefits for people to get electric cars. Here you're allowed in the HOV lane on the freeway. No one wants to listen when I tell them that all the same taxes from gas vehicles will get transferred to electric ones as well. Maybe calling them smug bastards is the wrong approach.

When Russia, China, Syria, Iran and North Korea launch EMPs our entire country will shutdown completely because of terrible leadership and a controlled demolition of the USA.

this is just to dip the toe on total surveilance, after all, how are you going to pay for it ?

clearly, the state needs to know where you go

The State Government will invest $200,000 to develop options on systems for monitoring and collecting the future road user charge".

https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/McGowan/2022/05/WAs-climate-action-efforts-accelerate-with-60-million-dollar-EV-package.aspx

This is just the beginning