After taxing / penalizing owners of petrolium burning vehicles into extinction due to carbon emissions and forcing everyone into EVs, they "suddenly realize" that even though the EVs don't create carbon emissions, the powerplants do ... so they force the power plants to pay HEAVILY for these carbon outputs ... which either raises the cost of electricty by 300+% OR closes plants altogether. Either way, electricty will no longer be attainable by anyone other than the elite ... and no one can travel nor cook nor cool their homes.
How about this take:
After taxing / penalizing owners of petrolium burning vehicles into extinction due to carbon emissions and forcing everyone into EVs, they "suddenly realize" that even though the EVs don't create carbon emissions, the powerplants do ... so they force the power plants to pay HEAVILY for these carbon outputs ... which either raises the cost of electricty by 300+% OR closes plants altogether. Either way, electricty will no longer be attainable by anyone other than the elite ... and no one can travel nor cook nor cool their homes.