General Discussion

not overtly dispute the Republican characterization of the Democrats' earlier party. No Democrat I can name called for getting rid of all gas stoves, cars and heating.

I would characterize what they did as two things. The first was to use tax credits to encourage shifts to clean energy. By decreasing the difference in price of an electric car or sometimes hybrids, it reduced the premium between them and gas powered cars The second thing was to regulate power plants to control carbon and methane has emissions. Here, because those decisions are made years before and impact many years in the future, it is not clear decision making won't still favor cleaner technology.

Another factor is that we live in a global world. Although it is not good for our economy, it is good to read about the progress China has made in creating good affordable electric vehicles and improving how long it takes to charge them. As I am in my 70s, I remember how the cars most people I knew shifted from American cars to Japanese.