1 Most pickups sold in the US are not purchased by farmers. Heck they are selling about 2.5 million new full sized pickups a year. Consider that there are only 3.5 million farmers? 80% of those trucks were purchased by people who will A, never drive them off of pavement and B never haul a load with it. It's a status symbol. So people looking to make a political statement and seeking that status symbol will be the buyers or an electric truck.
2 Raising taxes on gas to force people to use mass transit may work in small European countries but here in the US? Not a chance. To start with we don't have the mass transit infrastructure. It would take decades to build and even more decades to get enough people to use it enough to offset the pollution created in building that mass transit system. Going to have to have track-age running to every small town to force the taxes. Won't work if we have to drive 25 miles to town to use mass transit.
3 Currently electric powered vehicles are a novelty. About 250,000 sell each year out of the 16-17 million new vehicles sold. Plus as someone pointed out large areas of the US, especially city areas already have an issue with the electrical grid. If everyone starts plugging cars it they are done. 3rd world status with rolling blackouts as the norm.
4 Most of the materials to make a battery has to be strip mined. Plus the processing of that raw material pollutes. For some (not all) batteries that material is mined. Sent to 3rd world countries to process with the finished produce shipped back here to be made into components, shipped back to a 3rd world country to be assembled and filled with chemicals then finally shipped back to the US. And that's environmentally friendly? Plus if you pay attention most battery powered cars cost the same to operate over 5 years as the same sized gas car. That's figuring in the greatly reduced trade value or cost of replacing batteries plus charging (electric bill). Then when people complain about the much shorter operating range in cold weather? They respond with "Don't run the heater"?
I'm not saying that this stuff isn't in our future. But it's not going to take over in the near future.
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