Unintended Consequences, by Eric Peters

There are always two sets of reasons for government regulations: the stated reason and the real reason, which almost always boils down to power, money, and control. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:

Unintended consequences can be beautiful things – when they are contrary to the intentions of malicious people. A good example being the unintended consequences of the lying-to-people about the mRNA drugs that turned out to not be “vaccines.” People are now suspicious of those who pushed these drugs and won’t be so blithe about just-trusting them ever again. The whole edifice of authority has been placed into question – ironically by the very people who had hoped to expand both the scope of their authority as well as acceptance of it.

It’s a similar situation with cars – and understanding it helps one to comprehend why electric cars are being pushed so aggressively all-of-a-sudden.

The people who want us out of cars, who want to restrict and (ultimately) largely eliminate discretionary driving have been using the regulatory power of the government to inch-by-inch toward their end-goal of a managed society in which most people live very close to where they work and rarely travel farther from where they live. And when they do travel – when they are allowed to travel – it will be via riding in a government-controlled train or bus, on the government’s schedule and under the government’s control.

By now, this ought to be their obvious end goal.

Of course, it was not always obvious. People were told (and many believed) the government was just trying to make cars “safer” and “more efficient.” That it was all about “reducing exhaust emissions.” Just the same as people were told (and many believed) it’d be just “15 days to slow the spread.”

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