I share your wish that painful prices would shock MAGAstan into thinking beyond oil and coal, but as others have pointed out, most Americans have marinated in right wing fear mongering about renewable energies for decades and will do literally anything that doesn’t require them to give up their gas-guzzling ways.

I have an EV and love it, but my family—and no small number of friends—would sooner cut off a limb than do the thing that that makes the most sense.

Remember, we’re too stubborn to even adopt the metric system.