Increased demand for power to charge cars will drive demand for build-out of clean generating capacity. Decreased use of petrol-powered cars makes voters less

Increased demand for power to charge cars will drive demand for build-out of clean generating capacity. Decreased use of petrol-powered cars makes voters less sensitive to gas prices, thus desperately needed carbon taxes, and more interested in cheaper, thus renewable, electrical generation. The current US president is lately hustling eliminating tax on gasoline, instead, in an almost certainly doomed bid to fend off loss of majority in the upcoming congressional election. A big gas tax with monthly cash payouts to people with average and below incomes (i.e. most voters) would go over better.