This all sounds great, and you're not wrong, but like many on HN you come across as someone who's living in a bit of a bubble. Electric vehicles simply are not

This all sounds great, and you're not wrong, but like many on HN you come across as someone who's living in a bit of a bubble. Electric vehicles simply are not on the table for a massive swathe of the population who are driving $2000 clunkers that they need in order to be able to get to/from work every day. Until we can get electric cars on the used market for that kind of price range, that still have the effectively-unlimited range of a gas car, this entire idea is a pipe dream. Penalizing people for doing what they have to do in order to go about their lives is a recipe for a populist uprising that undoes all of your changes and sets the effort back a decade. Spending millions on expensive, privacy-invading license plate cameras to charge people a fine for going through the motions of their life is dystopian and horrible - and doesn't make good financial sense. Far better to directly incentivize people to get the electric car you want them driving, rather than punishing them. If gas prices had continued to rise like they were doing a decade ago, then we might be in a situation now where it would make financial sense for more people to convert to an electric car. This didn't happen, and so right now for most people it makes no sense to do. Put an artificial barrier like your penalty in place, and they'll elect Doug Ford in order to stop you. It has to actually make real economic sense, not artificial, or it will fall apart.