I'm a strong proponent of nuclear power. In fact I went to school for an emerging "energy systems engineering" program at a state university over here. My intention waa to go toward the nuclear power field and attempt to raise awareness and try to shift public opinion. How naïeve I was!

As it turns out, even 10 years ago the wokism was creeping in. I had profs that hated that I was a blue-collar white guy trying to get the education I needed to go into that field. They actively made the classroom environment hostile and the grading was def biased. Since we worked in lots of groups between classes and had similar answers, we started noticing that certain individuals grades were lower or higher for the same work. Such is life.

I work on my own vehicles so I can buy old cheap cars and not support the agenda-of-the week which is also a double edged sword because I do something similar for work. The old saying goes "the mechanic's car gets worked on last." My commute is hard on cars. Its still cheaper than carrying a payment but not by much.

It sounds like the BEV works for your family's situation and thats good! I think that if the infrastructure is there then the tech will advance.

Imagine if we could use what Nikola Tesla was planning/discovered with power over air! That would solve a lot of problems with storage and distribution.

Maybe the fusion reaction that was published recently will be viable and able to be scaled up. Maybe it will be censored and memory holed like everything else that brings down costs and increases production unless it makes the right people money. Maybe the DOE will let us use breeder reactors so we can reprocess all the spent fuel rods sitting around instead of worrying about bad actors doing something with them. Who knows!

What I know is that God wins and we're all along for the ride!