It's also about control. With EVs they can simply shut off your car from working.
So #AUStriches Federal Government is introducing new vehicle emissions standards which would ban the sale of new Toyota Hilux and Ford Rangers amongst others in 2025.
This is all being supported by Covid-style modelling from University of Melbourne’s Climate Futures Academy - check this link to their site to see the kind of postmodern neo-Marxist garbage this government-funded institution is pushing: https://www.unimelb.edu.au/climate/news-and-events
The “estimated” premature deaths are fucking nonsense and yet politicians and academics are going around parroting the findings as though they’re gospel. No-one in the media is challenging it either.
In the real world this is going to force people into buying EVs which are completely unfit for purpose, driving up prices on cars and home batteries, and literally leaving people stranded in this giant country.
The parasites literally have no clue how the real world works but they’ll make #AUStriches find this out the hard way.. 
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Yes I think that’s a big part of it, but also driven by the climate cult ideology where many of these people genuinely think unless we stop carbon emissions we’re all gonna die.
Difficult to know who is a useful idiot for this regime and who is a true believer but at the end of the day it doesn’t matter - they’re all cunts who are going to destroy a ton in the pursuit of their goals and we are the ones who have to deal with the fall out.