Backward American Capitalism (and Trump) Are Getting Electrical Vehicles All Wrong. The dirty fossil fuel industry keeping gas-powered vehicles on the road are like the horse-and-buggy companies of 1902, which laughed at Henry Ford’s Model T for a while before being put out of business by it.

This is the inherent problem with conservatism. A fear of change and progress.

Gas cars today still have a niche. But if we were designing from scratch a new system, EVs would win today hands down.

And yes public transport is needed in major cities and we need intercity trains. However, cars are still needed for rural america and even suburban.

Anyways, diesel trucks for long haul or minivans/trucks(only some) might still need to be gas today. But I suspect by 2030 the benefits of gas road transport won’t be as clear.

But then we get to planes and boats. Probably 2050 and then idk about cost. And we have to deal with the slow phaseout of existing equipment