They are cowards. Just say that there are too many people and you want the poor to die. Nothing lifts poor people out of poverty like cheap energy. Everything in your house, in your freezer and refrigerator, everything parked in your driveway, everything you have is a result of cheap energy. The more poor people the more control you can exert. USA middle class is very close to being finished off and they are ecstatic.
Winner, Winner.... best get your chicken dinner before it's outlawed.....
Initially, one or two aspects were irritating.... but THIS ^ long-game is the literal killer. ALL forms of energy are being driven up in price, very deliberately. It would be bad enough, if it was just greed.... but it's way more sinister.
And.... it's not just the cost, as bad as that is. California's grid reliability continues to decay, in no small part due to the large amount of their operating budget being diverted to Alt NRG projects, and away from traditional line-maintenance. Zero-Sum Game. I won't be surprised if that ^ nonsense is also a factor in the Maui fires....
Most of us like to make fun of Cali.... but, there is the Time factor...... unfortunately, much of what looked weird in Cali/Left Coast 20 or so years ago is now more "normal" elsewhere.....
So, you end up with a grid that is way less reliable, delivery much more expensive electricity. So, unless this is being run by total idiots (not the case, IMO), we are being forced into a future where way less people can afford to be mobile, AND the ones who can afford at least the loan for an EV will have their mobility constrained much of the time, due to the ongoing "Climate Crisis"..... Notwithstanding the Gulfstream-class, who will continue to flit about the World, lecturing us on how evil us peasants are.....
Right now, I can go to a fuel station, with legal-tender (cash) in my pocket, and buy any reasonable amount of gasoline or diesel that I want, put it in approved legal containers, and I'm good.
I do appreciate that ^ statement now, today.... but it will read as peak-freedom/mobility, once all the EV fleet is under grid/computer control.....
Rgds, D.