This^

The government has been meddling with farmers my whole lifetime. The result - the huge majority of our food is produced out West on megafarms. Think of how easy they can control the food supply now, and how difficult it would be if all our food came from local family farms.

And for everything else - Walmart, Target, Lowes push all the small stores out of business. Along with Amazon.

It's all about control.

Is the push for electric cars really about the environment? Because imagine if everybody depends on the power grid for transportation. How easy it to get power shut off if you are an authoritarian government?