I don't want to set the author's disdain aside at all. It's 100% justified.

This is really just a tax on leaving the stone age.

Especially given that my nissan leaf weights a little more than 1/2 of what an escalade weighs. It's purely just another disincentive to electrify, brought to you by the burn baby burn lobby.

The US has become the seed state of global idiocracy.