Stephen Green takes a long-overdue look at the inevitability of electric cars and such, and comes up with this priceless observation:
We need to talk about the word “inevitability” because when it comes to electric vehicles, I do not think it means what supporters think it means.
And then the killer:
Inevitability, you see, is when government spends money we don’t have and passes laws that won’t work to bribe or force people into buying cars they don’t want.
Like Karl Marx’s sense of inevitability — the inevitable fall of capitalism and the inevitable advent of its replacement — such things which go against human nature always need assistance from the firm foot of government to be applied with a heavy hand.
If the above is slightly incomprehensible to you, you need to read Stephen’s whole piece.
