@chris And it is so short-term view. EVs are catching up very quickly and beating fuel cars. Autonomy is getting better, prices are going down, and as you wrote: operation cost blasts fuel cars.

An EV mandate is not just a requirement to tackle emissions, it's a matter of survival for car makers. Giving them an incentive to slow down the electrification of their product range is a lethal poison. They'll be wiped out of the market and by the time they realize it, it will be too late to catch up with the competition.

The only way to save them will be more tariffs, until North America looks like the Soviet Unions with its crap cars.