>Will government make ice more expensive? Two things are going to happen: Cars in general are going to continue becoming more expensive (it's still functional

>Will government make ice more expensive? Two things are going to happen: Cars in general are going to continue becoming more expensive (it's still functionally illegal for any American automaker to turn a profit on anything smaller than an SUV- gas or electric- the only automakers that still make normal cars are those that come from countries where trucks are largely impractical). Safety standards will increase to the point where cars simply cannot pass them, because electric SUVs weigh at least a half ton more than their gasoline counterparts hence even more accommodation will need to be made for them. Additionally, electricity will become more expensive to match what gasoline used to cost. Remember, natural gas generation forms the overwhelming majority of new installations now (it's cleaner and cheaper than coal), and there's nothing stopping obscene taxes from being applied after the fact to that, either- especially since those generators are just replacing coal plants rather than increasing base load generation capacity. The whole "but my car can store power" thing is going to crater its battery longevity should that become necessary; developed countries should not intentionally make their grids as unreliable as South Africa's, but they're going to try anyway. >EU is already backpedaling on goals for all electric. Germany fucked around and found out that it's hard to run an industrial base without a steady supply of Russian natural gas or French nuclear energy. A government's concern about climate obviously takes a back-seat to concerns about not getting deposed by a population that values being able to afford to eat and keep the lights on today and tomorrow over slightly-cooler temperatures in 50 years, and "let's not destroy our money printing industrial base" is a perfectly valid conclusion for them to make when both of those inputs functionally disappear.