what i don't understand, what seems to give away to kayfabe to me is this: if i were an important person, concerned with climate change and emissions and carbon or whatever, the path forwards does not seem like it would be getting every one to buy evs to replace their cars but rather denser (walkable) development and investing in rail human transport to make it agreeable and convenient. the former is like herding cats, getting every one to change their behavior, the second is changing through central planning how people make decisions about their lives which is right in the wheelhouse of our dear progressive technocrats in washington and elsewhere. it is clear that something other than saving the world is going on here.
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