I believe the maximum good could be extracted from a complete rebuild of the infrastructure pointed specifically at competing with highways.

The easiest way is the "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" approach and engineer railroads to quickly and efficiently load and unload automobiles. That way, people could drive their vehicles onto the trains, the train in transporting them and their vehicle would eliminate the park your car then rent another at the other end annoyance and expense, and most positively physically get those cars off the road. The big win for it is that if the train were electric, then it could artificially make every car that uses it, all the way back to a Ford Model T, into an "electric car" for the trip, and completely avoid the car's pollution. And of course there are other benefits like reducing traffic accidents.

Yes, it would be a monumental engineering and infrastructure investment, but a revolutionary leap in efficiency and pollution mitigation and safety.

All for it, but just do it by building EV's that are in EVERY way better than ICE's. My ICE will do what I want done and no EV on the planet will currently match its performance. Fix that, and make the EV affordable, and I'll buy it. I would LOVE to have an EV, but I need certain things done that an EV cannot do. Yes, it has to do with range and charging.

The Chinese will ruin the car markets the same way they have ruined others, but undercutting manufacturing expenses with slave-labor wages and real slave labor, as well as manipulating currency so that yes, the Chinese would fuck up the domestic auto industry, it would go away like the domestic electronics industry and the domestic textiles industry and the domestic (you name it) industries while putting everyone you know into poverty and probably yourselves as well. Is that what you want, the USA as a 3rd-world nation? That's what awaits if we let the damned communists wreck our prosperity. I say let no Chinese cars enter the country, and build all the cars we can right here in the USA. The alternative is worse than the Great Depression, as there would be no chance of recovery, ever.

Oh, as a conservative, lemme take a crack at that!

Global warming appears to us to be a weapon of the left to destroy society as we know it, via spending it to death on climate situations that cannot be cured no matter how much money is spent, for the purpose of replacing our self-government with the dictatorial aspirations of the leftist elites. Their goal is to seize total control, for their fun and profit of course, while subjugating the vast majority to virtual slavery. They have gone too far in that direction already from shipping the good-paying jobs of manufacturing out of the USA, and have made multiple attempts against the life of the President who is trying to bring that industry back to the USA.

The estimate at one time was fifty trillion dollars to do what is necessary to mitigate climate change. I'm not sure if that was world-wide, or just the "US share", but it doesn't matter in the manner of being at ground zero for a five megaton nuclear explosion or a 50 megaton nuclear explosion, the results would be the same. Fifty trillion dollars is ludicrous, unattainable, and an amazing thing that those who propose it have not been more forcefully opposed than what you have seen to date. And since it is unattainably expensive, the thought is to continue as we are, and learn to adapt to what ensues, while not pauperizing the world and coming under the jackboots of a leftist elite that will do nothing but pleasure themselves at the expense of the masses.

"And what if killing industry could helpo fight Global Warming?"

It sure will. We can roll back the industrial revolution, do everything with animal power, put the majority of the population back to the production of food on farms and ranches, and probably see the vast majority of the world's 8 billion people starve to death. But the planet would recover.

It was when Soviet planners and 5-year agricultural plans that failed miserably because the economy can't be planned from a central authority successfully. Only free market capitalism can allocate resources in the proper proportions to satisfy societal needs. Gov't edits for things like EV's are doomed to failure. The way to get 100% EV use is to make EV's the best choice for absolutely everyone. Nothing else will ever work, people will end up keeping their 35 year old ICE vehicles that do what they need done.

Last weekend I ran America's oldest, longest, toughest car rally, the Press On Regardless rally in the northern part of the southern peninsula of Michigan, and the southern part of the northern peninsula of Michigan. It went past midnight 2 days in a row, when even many gas stations were closed, and no EV chargers were seen anywhere out in the woods of those areas. There were two events, one on Friday, the other on Saturday, with Friday being about 280 miles, and Saturday about 240. High accelerations and cornering forces consumed gasoline at an accelerated rate, forcing refueling of my car that normally gets nearly 400 miles on a tank on highway driving. Run the Press On Regardless rally in an EV? Don't think it's going to happen any time soon. Maybe if Toyota comes out with their 900 mile per charge solid state battery, I can buy it and run that rally with their 900 mile EV. But again, that would be the market determining successful choice of the customer for an EV, not some government edict making ICE unavailable. I'd just keep my 2019 Ford Edge ST until the wheels fall off, with no gov't edict preventing me from running the Press On Regardless rally.

"Take 10% of salary"

Missed the part about nuking income taxes, did we? "Nuking income taxes" means taking 0% of everyone's salary. IOW, it's a LUXURY TAX == consumption tax that the poor pay $0 of.

US Income Taxes chase manufacturing anywhere-but-here, great-paying manufacturing jobs leave the country and are replaced with "working poor" wages of retail and service industry. Duh... its extremely easy to see.

Cure? Nuke the income taxes. The President hopes to replace them with the "External Revenue Service" of tariffs, but this may or may not work out. If it doesn't, the other effective rescue would be the luxury tax called the FairTax, which is HR 25 in the house of representatives and is the only truly progressive tax every proposed (income taxes, with their payroll tax component, are hideously regressive and most of the reason Warren Buffet's Secretary pays more income tax, on a percentage basis, than he does,) Pass the FairTax and restore prosperity to the USA. Yes, it WOULD bring back manufacturing.

The biggest problem the US Gov't has with a lot of our universities is their blatant racism in failing to protect their targeted students from harassment, intimidation, and outright attack. No, its not black folks, it's Jews that are being mistreated without a sufficient protective response from the involved universities. Violating our civil rights laws is an excellent way to generate a negative response out of our government. They need to get their act together and provide equal treatment under the law for all.

"nobody is complaining"

Oh yes they are. I still lament the switch to a smart phone and only having a charge for 1 day, rather than about 4 - 5 days on my old flip phone. But complaining doesn't do much good, so I don't voice it all that often any more.

"majority of people"

Very tired of hearing this phrase. If our great objective is to get the ICE vehicle into museums and leave as much of that black goo in the ground as possible, and fer gosh sakes NOT BURN it if we do have some irreplaceable use for it, then "MAJORITY" is irrelevant, and needs to be replaced with "EVERYONE." EVERYONE should be able to own / use an EV conveniently and economically. For that to happen in the US, there has to be a whale of a lot more places to charge, they have to be much more reasonably priced, and / or the electric cars themselves have to live up to the Toyota tease for their vaporware solid state battery of 900 miles.

With a 900 mile battery, I can venture 450 miles from home, and do it all on home electricity at 16 cents per KwH. That won't power ALL my driving but will make it way cheaper than having to stop twice and charge up for 300 miles at 75 cents per KwH which is what the lone fast charger in my area at a Chevy dealer that is NOT open 24/7/365 is documented as charging for his charging.

I have a garage and park my car in it every moment it's on the property. Had the garage built without windows so's the bad guys can't look in and tell whether I'm home or not. Believe me, in Texas, running into a homeowner with an AR is a huge deterrent to home burglaries. So if I'm here, the car is hidden inside. But until I can either find a fast public charger on a 1-for-1 basis as often as I can find a gas PUMP, not STATION, OR until I can drive 900 miles on a charge so's a 1000 mile driving day (yes, I do those a LOT) only requires finding 1 fast charger in the first 900 miles to complete it, I will continue to buy ICE. Or, if in 5 years, when my present car is 10 years old, a hybrid that is of the nature to be tuned for performance, so I don't have to measure the zero to sixty with a calendar, will also be an option. Dodge Hornet R/T looks kinda attractive right now at 0 - 60 of 5.6, but I have $$$ for exactly one vehicle, and a willingness to pay the outrageous charges for insurance now for one vehicle, and the Dodge Hornet R/T does NOT have a trailer hitch. I don't need to pull a trailer, but the utility of that is a thing called a hitch carrier, which is great for working around the place, clearing yet another ton of surface rocks off the property and also affixing a great big hook for pulling on stuff, like removing climbing vines from trees. Get a good running start and out they come. It's a good compromise for those of us who also don't want to try to afford a more appropriate-for-the-role tractor. But massively more numerous chargers at reasonable charging rates, OR incredibly increased range for each charge with the ability to charge very quickly, are my price for converting. One or the other, or I won't be getting a BEV. And the world needs us ALL to get BEV's and quit using the slippery black goo as much as possible.

Hey, maybe you're someone Hannity would call a "Great American" who believes in free speech.

Have been hearing reports from numerous sources that there is a huge anti-free-speech movement in Europe. This is probably part of that. Maga here, and I'm with you, whether you like it or not! Go 4Chan!

Wind is pretty darn consistent in the Dakotas, the Saudi Arabia of Wind. Solar's real constant, at least in the daytime, in the desert southwest. We could power the entire country on solar 100 miles by 100 miles square, in the desert southwest, with appropriate batteries. Whole country, JUST solar. Take a few ounces of metals to construct the delivery system, tho, unless you want to charge and then truck the batteries. Might happen if the progress-destroying EPA won't let the power wires be built. The highways are pretty much the wild west for regulations against things like that. Hard to target batteries riding on trucks when you let other stuff ride on trucks without restriction.

But I believe the government should not have the power to do this.

That said, the use of "farm destroying" phrase may be the pinball's hammer to get this trend to exist over parking lots, on the sides and roofs of big buildings, over canals, even highways. Imagine enclosing the ENTIRE interstate highway system so that it doesn't rain or snow on it. Save huge piles of money for snow removal, as well as prevent hugely expensive and painful accidents caused by snow, ice, even rain. Downside might be a hit to the scenery one sees while driving. Possibly some smart construction could make it not be in the way most of the time, but present when the need to keep the snow off I-90 in the north so's they never have to close those "road closed" gates we see when traversing it in the summer ('cuz we don't have the balls to go up there in the winter! )

Just one thing, no fed $$$ for building solar or wind. If it's economical, then it's economical, so build it with $$$ from the sale of the electricity. Otherwise, build nukes.

My latest extremely brief consideration of Linux was dashed when I asked if there was a Linux version of a program I use for reviewing my dashcam video called, "Dashcam Viewer." I purchased it some years ago, it works great, integrates a map with the video so I can know exactly where every shot was taken, and so forth. No, no Linux solution for that, nor were the common Windows-sim software likely to succeed in making such a program run. Back to Win. Maybe give it 5 years and then consider it again, see if anything has changed.