maybe it can, but why should? Especially if you like "cars s such", you would strongly have felt the Rube-Goldbergization yourself in the last 25 years or so; while "then" everyone could do certain routine maintenance tasks themselves, "now" more likely than not the electronic controls will lock "your" car down as soon as you get your hand within an inch of the bonnet or so. Your car today is DMCA-protected against you, really...

Nevermind "gasoline" - from the US carmaker lobby view, clearly diesel is the dinosaur juice because the European makers promoted it and lied about it (while in Germany petrol is the dinosaur juice as diesel is cheaper with more mileage). Definitely a dinosaur fight if you ask me.

The lack of a charger network is lamentable but let's not forget that Benz' first motor car had to be refilled at pharmacies; the fuel station network didn't come to exist overnight either.

Transitions that happen with ourselves "feeling overridden" always leave us annoyed and perky. That's no different whether authorities put that shiney new motorway right through your neighbourhood or your local fuel station closes - or your new company car is electric because that's what fleet management went for to tick the green box. We're already in the middle of a big shift here. whether one of us individually embraces our resists it won't stop it from happening. The choice of the dinosaur fate is everyone's own by and large.