Don't worry though, like Gilligan You'll own nothing, but Klaus says You'll be Happy! :-)

Imagine (in a few short years) no individual cars, no lawn equipment, no fireplaces or fire pits, no water heaters (Biden's after those now) no dishwashers, no hair dryers, no clothes dryers, and on and on.

In a FAIR, and FREE market we'd not have any of these problems. Our bright boys and girls could very easily invent things that use less and less energy to run on. Hell, they already have. Corporations buy up the patent-tech and shelve it.

~NightSky

PS BTW, I HATE LED lights.

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Carmakers and policymakers desperately want people to buy plug-in electric cars, but they have a problem: drivers don’t share the same passion.

Almost 100,000 plug-in vehicles are sitting on dealer lots, and Ford is slashing the price of its electric pickup truck. Demand from drivers is simply not keeping up with the dreams of the corporate and political elites. A recent Bank of America research note suggested that possibly “consumers are happy with their ICE vehicles and don’t want EVs.”

We’ve been down this road before. We've seen corporations try to convert their customers to a new green technology, telling us we will love the new high-tech stuff better than the old stuff. This is exactly what happened with the good old-fashioned lightbulb. That story ended with the federal government forcing us to buy the new tech against our wills.

What is an industry to do in such cases? They lobby to ban the tech that stubborn customers keep buying. In the early 2000s, the three major lightbulb makers began lobbying Congress to set bulb efficiency standards higher than what traditional incandescents could achieve, and to outlaw bulbs that didn’t meet those standards.

Cars will get the lightbulb treatment at some point in the next 10 to 15 years. Many, if not most, of the internal combustion engines manufactured, sold, and driven today will be illegal to make, import, or sell by 2038.

While Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has, through executive order, banned the sale of gasoline-powered cars starting in 2035, the federal ban on gasoline-powered cars will not be so direct. It will, like the Bush- and Obama-era lightbulb law, ban most gasoline-powered cars by setting efficiency standards that cannot be met by the old technology.

Federal law currently allows the Transportation Department to set Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for cars. That is, carmakers can sell cars that don’t meet the 28 mpg standard currently in effect, but the average fuel economy of all their cars sold needs to be 28 miles per gallon.

The Biden administration has dialed that standard all the way up to 40 mpg, which obviously makes it a challenge for carmakers to make big, heavy cars — because for every 20 mpg car it sells, the automaker must now sell two 50 mpg cars. Raise this average mpg standard high enough and you effectively outlaw all but the most fuel-efficient gasoline-powered cars.

Congress or some crafty executive branch lawyers could probably tweak the law to allow even less room for gas-powered pickup trucks or minivans.

The free market is pretty annoying to corporate planners, because consumers get to make their own choices. It takes government to force people to buy what industry wants them to buy. Soon enough, this old story will play out in our car dealerships