Setting aside your MuskLove, what is it you're proposing with regard to the adoption of EVs?
I didn't suggest we can't do it, I didn't suggest it wouldn't be profitable for some individuals. Global warming is good in the short term for arctic countries like Russia, too.
I suggested that reworking our national infrastructure around a "green" technology may have the unintended consequence of entirely cancelling out any "green" benefit we may hope to realize. Zero tailpipe emissions isn't zero impact.
But if we focused instead on renewable fuel technology there's nothing sexy about selling you your own car that has already been manufactured and that you've already paid for, you can't introduce it with pyrotechnics and dancing girls and say "Hey consumers! Here's your same car but now the liquid you put in it is renewable and carbon neutral! Introducing the CYBER-NEW-SET-OF-FUEL-INJECTORS-AND-A-LITTLE-COMPUTER-BOX! You won't be able to flaunt it in front of the poors because it's all hidden under the hood and besides they could afford it too! " so, since what we really care about is flashy toys and empty virtue signaling I guess this cybertruck is the future. Not a particularly good one but we are the same species that still hasn't fixed Flint's water. Speaking of that it's coincidentally another promise Musk made and didn't deliver on.. well finally last month he provided UV filters to 12 schools which might be coming on line by the beginning of the new year.. but UV doesn't filter out chemical contaminants so they don't address the problem that actually exists. Hey there's a trend here!)
So no chance of setting aside the usual drivel about Musk. Oh well.
Maybe I missed it, but has anyone in this thread said that other sources of renewable energy shouldn't be pursued? Has anyone claimed that simply using an EV makes it a "zero impact" option?
How far is the U.S. from having "renewable fuel technology" in place for widespread retrofitting and adoption?
Why are you so quick to dump all of that virtue signaling baggage onto prospective EV owners? Maybe they just want a vehicle that works better for them than an ICE powered vehicle, and an EV fits that requirement. No need to look down on anyone. One of Tesla's goals has been to make their EVs more affordable (which they've done). That runs counter to what you've said, doesn't it?
I see the need to improve electrical grids for more EVs as a good thing. A modern power system is a flexible asset that would seem to have more benefits than widespread adoption of "
CYBER-NEW-SET-OF-FUEL-INJECTORS-AND-A-LITTLE-COMPUTER-BOX".