>If your goal is to phase out combustion, why would you allow it regardless of purchase price and taxes? If statistically nobody's doing it and there's statist

>If your goal is to phase out combustion, why would you allow it regardless of purchase price and taxes? If statistically nobody's doing it and there's statistically no harm coming from it there's no reason to ban it. Your approach might fly in singapore but western nations generally think of themselves as free nations where everything is allowed unless there's a good reason for it not to be. > you'll have consumers who might buy combustion vehicles, price be damned. Those people would just track down a used vehicle. >just enough jurisdictions where automakers have no choice but to make EVs But if the consumers are already buying exclusively EVs and the OEMs are catering to those consumers what's the point of the ban? Nobody will be making gas cars if nobody is selling gas cars. A ban serves no end other than pandering to authoritarians at that point since the thing we wanted to get rid of is already gone.