Agreed with the public transit bit, but there's nothing inherent to electricity as a transportation fuel that makes it easier for the government to control your travels.
The point was the fuel type is inconsequential to their unstated actual objective to remove your ability to acquire and maintain a personal conveyance.
They're taking a different approach in California. California is famous for its traffic. Voters consistently vote for anything with any hope of reducing congestion. The Democrats take transportation dollars the public voted to use for reducing congestion and they use it TO REMOVE TRAFFIC LANES FROM MAJOR STREETS. They want to encourage congestion to make traffic "safer" for pedestrians and bicyclists and to "encourage" public transportation.
Californians are the epitome of the left. They vote for public transportation so less affluent people are kicked off the road. They claim it is for the good of the environment, but it is just that they want the other people off the road, not themselves.
No, except that it requires infrastructure that doesn't yet exist, particularly in the rural west. They can obviously shut down gas shipments any time already. But if they force the switch to electric all they have to do is just not install the charging infrastructure in the first place.
They have to take out power to everywhere for that to work. You can charge from any standard 120V outlet.
It can take hours to charge, as opposed to filling a gas tank in one minute.
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