In the spring of 1968, Robert F. Kennedy gave a speech that has echoed for half a century. It was a notion he’d been playing with for some time, and it became part of his campaign in his bid to become the Democratic presidential nominee. He suggested that gross national product was the wrong measure of a nation’s success. What he called Gross National Product, what many also refer to as Gross Domestic Product, measured nothing but money and output.

If you want to ensure that Vladimir Putin can finance his war in Ukraine by selling every barrel of oil he can pump, please continue to drive a big internal combustion vehicle on as many unnecessary trips as you can think of. Gas demand will go up and prices will skyrocket and Putin will be easily able to afford all of those bombs and rockets he so dearly loves to use against uncooperative civilian populations.

The land war in Europe came as a surprise to just about everyone but the price spikes accompanying it certainly did not.  EVs are the future as everyone knows but the future is now rushing at us in leaps and bounds.  How do we best adapt to this new technology? Joanna Kyriazis lays out some of the necessary groundwork we must put in place.