They want us to be immobile. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
One thing leads to another. It’s the point of the thing you see.
The thing – or rather, the tactic – has been called (among other things) Fabian Socialism – after a Roman general by the name of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus who used incrementalism to grind away toward his ultimate goal. Also known as one thing-leads-to-another thing.
Axiom: Once you get your target to accept the first thing, it is easier to get them to accept the next thing.
The first step – toward getting people out of cars – was to get them to accept the moral necessity of electric cars.
This was accomplished by getting them to accept that carbon dioxide is a pollutant.
Everything that has happened since has followed from that. Electric cars didn’t just appear. They were summoned into existence. Not by the market; the suggestion is absurd. Products that cost more and don’t work as well as other products that cost less tend not to remain on the market. Electric vehicles aren’t market-driven vehicles. They are government-mandated vehicles. Summoned into existence to meet government regulations regarding “pollution.”
Take away the regulations and there wouldn’t be any EVs. There weren’t any – before they became the answer to the government’s demands for less-“polluting” vehicles.
Of course, carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.
