Moving to Electric Transportation

Garrison Keillor began his column today:

My favorite word today is “unsubscribe” and I’ve been online clicking it on dozens of emails asking for my cash contributions to their battle in behalf of the good, the true, and the beautiful, which one wants to support, but once you do, your name is transmitted to other righteous causes and now I’m getting appeals from folks running for city council in Omaha and a group petitioning Congress to outlaw the internal combustion engine, the chance of which is less than slight, so I unsubscribe and instead I gave to a soup kitchen raising money for school supplies for indigent kids: how could I say no? 

Most people as well-traveled as Keillor know that banning the ICE is no joke; in fact, it’s already in progress.  The European Union has proposed an effective ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035, aiming to speed up the switch to zero-emission electric vehicles as part of a broad package of measures to combat global warming.

Is this happening in the U.S.?  Not now.  The ExxonMobils and Chevrons of the world essentially own our Congress, and any senator who doesn’t toe the line on this will soon be an ex-senator.

But eventually the scene here in America will change.  That’s because the automakers sell their products internationally, and are investing large fortunes switching to electric.  At a certain point, they will simply stop building ICE-based cars, and the game will be over.