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There are a bunch of issues here. First of all EVs are a mass market now. We are at the point were EV production is no longer just added to ICE production, but is replacing it. Often that means building up new factories and closing old ones. For some companies making combustion engine parts, this means they are dead as companies. Within the large car makers it similarily leads to departments and factories being closed. That is also why the fight against EVs is lead by parts manufacturers and not the large automakers themself.
The other very obvious problem are oil companies. The EU is currently at about peak ICE cars in its car fleet and cars make up a huge part of oil consumption.
Yes, I realize that, but the problem remains: namely, that everything points to EVs being the future.
Attempting to artificially halt this development in favor of short-term profits for outdated industries only serves to massively damage the future viability of the country in question.
It's obvious that manufacturers and the oil industry are willing to accept this, but you'd think they'd at least come up with some decent bogus arguments. I mean, job losses are a particularly poor argument, as the world does not stand still and, in the medium term, more jobs will be lost due to the delay in introducing future technologies than will be preserved by artificially maintaining technologies that are no longer competitive.
However, I have not yet heard any other arguments than that, which simply does not convince me.
In the future the managers and politicans making these decisions will be gone.
Yes, that's true - and the citizens are left to foot the bill.