I would argue that you don't, since you're advocating for a car that must plug in when you get home.

Let's see. Peak electricity usage is in the evening all across this country starting around 3pm and ending around 10pm. So your solution is to make everyone buy an electric car that they plug in when they get home (6pm-ish), which will drive peak usage even higher, and then charge them more money for it so that they use less electricity.

[treasure] There was no cake smiley but when you figure out how to have all of this candy, AND eat it, then come back and talk to us about forcing people into something that requires greater use of a commodity that you're then going to, in the words of our illustrious leader, "necessarily skyrocket" into oblivion.

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