What you're saying sounds reasonable, but I still question whether the "lower carbon footprint" fully justifies the significant carbon costs of transitioning to EV's. And what about the enormous carbon footprint of installing all the required charging infrastructure required, or the upgrades to the electrical grid needed to support it.

In my opinion, a better way to lower the reliance of transportation on fossil fuels would be to tax the shit out of gasoline. This would incentivize smaller, more fuel-efficient cars and perhaps convince the American motorist that living in low population density suburbs distant from their workplace is a really, really dumb idea. The revenue from these carbon taxes could then be plowed into subsidizing public transport until it becomes self-supporting, as it already is in the rest of the industrialized world.

Mr Biden's heart is in the right place, but I fear he is still too obsessed with not degrading middle class lifestyles, keeping middle class taxes low and creating middle class jobs. These are certainly laudable goals, but they should not dictate energy policy. The middle class suburban lifestyle is a major reason why we have this problem, we should not be helping to perpetuate it.

We are all entitled to a roof over our heads, a job that can support it, and efficient public transport. But no one is entitled to a spacious ranch house in a suburban park with a long commute to where he works and shops.