Engine of Prosperity

For America, the internal combustion engine is the literal driver of our everyday lives and prosperity. The United States is not tiny Belgium or relatively small Britain. We are a massive nation that takes up huge parts of a large continent. Alaska alone is over twice as large as France (and electric vehicle batteries do not hold charges in cold weather like our forty-ninth state experiences most of the year). Your Tesla is fine for a run to the grocery two miles away and adequate for the two hour daily commute between your home and work then back at the end of your labors, but completely unsuited to drive from Maine to San Diego, unless you have an extra month to spare for all your two hour at a time recharging breaks, as opposed to the five minutes it takes to fuel up at the gas station. Not to mention, that there are many thousands of US gasoline pumps, everywhere from convenience stores to massive wholesale clubs, but so far, only a few thousand readily accessible charging stations, and even those are often inaccessible to electric vehicle owners because someone arrived there first and needs two hours on the plug to ensure they make it to the next charging station. Also, in many places, that electricity is anything but "green energy" and the battery in your electric car has slave labor all over it in the process of harvesting rare earth minerals to make it and Uyghur prisoner labor used to assemble it. Your "clean energy" turns out to be pretty dirty after all. Finally, the elite want your freedom of movement restricted, so that they don't have to share the road with you and can take their gas guzzling SUVs and limousines wherever they want without worrying about being stuck in traffic behind common folk like me.