You touch on an extremely important issue, unrelated to electric cars, America’s national interests in energy. North America has more high grade prime fuels than any other continent. Yet, it has been our policy, for two generations, to destroy our coal and uranium based energy industries. They supply 2/3 of our juice. As a result we have poured our wealth over illiterate Arabs, turned Bedouins into billionaires. Since Nam, we have tied our security to the most savage, unstable, region on earth. Why? Their crude is cheaper than ours.
There are sane reasons to trade with all people; it promotes peaceful relationships. But to rely on foreign powers for our survival, since the 1973 oil crisis, is lethally insane. Killers have us over a barrel. This is the de facto energy policy of the USA. The people who did this to world peace sat in that Chamber and listened to the SOTU.
