We own two of the most
We own two of the most efficient practical gasoline vehicles on the road, neither of which is new and one of which is high mileage. Most of the people I know own practical, relatively efficient vehicles as well. Nobody likes wasting money on gasoline. Neither do they like wasting money on cars that won't do the job. But a car that is impractical costs more than a car that isn't. Since EVs are aimed squarely at the demographic I mentioned earlier, they're going to sell to a very small portion of the total population. Which makes them a curiosity akin to high-end sports cars and purpose-built vehicles.
So people like me who pay taxes into the system have to wonder why our tax dollars are being spent to subsidize both the R&D and the sales of these cars when, frankly, the only segment of the population that can own them can easily afford them without our help. If I buy a high-efficiency TDI, which is much more useful where I live, or a (currently unavailable) practical-sized CNG car, I don't get $7,500 to help pay for it. Yet those two fuels are much more common and readily available (without buying any accessories such as charging stations or building infrastructure) and are far greener than gasoline or even BEVs when you consider sources.
Oil, for a very long time, was a cheap, plentiful, ready resource. Still is, though we've managed to regulate our way out of getting most of it. Obviously it's not good for the environment, but twenty, thirty, fifty years ago, those were not concerns. Now they are, but we aren't going to get off our dependence on oil in a few years or even a few decades. Every study I've seen shows petroleum being a primary energy source for the next fifty years and beyond.
But instead of dealing with reality and figuring out how to make our use of petroleum as efficient as possible, California and its followers are instead forcing unrealistic solutions that are accomplishing nothing but hype and wasted resources.