It's just as likely that your car will be turned off with software after you drive too fast or dare to use it during a brownout. No "siege warfare" or "imaginary scenarios," just a mandatory OS upgrade.

Anyway, it's not that gas delivery can't be stopped. It's that stopping electric delivery is far easier and more flexible and therefore can be deployed in a low intensity situation. With gas you have a huge network composed of many individual chain links, from the suppliers all the way down to the local gas station, and each of those links has a reserve of gas. You could force that to stop, but it would be a colossal undertaking that would only be justifiable with declaration of war against the population or something equivalent.

On the other hand, electric delivery is centralized to a few centers of authority and can literally be turned off by flipping switches. For example, your power company can cut you off easily. Crucially, however, electricity can also be monitored easily. So if the government implements a limit for usage during "peak hours," as the EU is proposing, you could be personally throttled in normal circumstances and there wouldn't be anything you could do about it. Or it's also possible that in order to enforce "climate lockdowns" the government can throttle or cut off your entire neighborhood to stop people from traveling. Again, this is effective with flipping a few switches.

In case for some reason you're dumb enough to think none of this will apply to you because you'll charge your iCar at night, away from peak hours, they've got you covered there too. Bidirectional charging, or the ability for a car to send power instead of receive it, has been proposed as a way for EV owners to "help" the grid. Right now it's discussed as a voluntary feature. One only needs to glance at CA's history with water rationing and brownouts to see how long that'll last.

It's just as likely that your car will be turned off with software after you drive too fast or dare to use it during a brownout.

Anyway, it's not that gas delivery can't be stopped. It's that stopping electric delivery is far easier and more flexible and therefore can be deployed in a low intensity situation. With gas you have a huge network composed of many individual chain links, from the suppliers all the way down to the local gas station, and each of those links has a reserve of gas. You could force that to stop, but it would be a colossal undertaking that would only be justifiable with declaration of war against the population or something equivalent.

On the other hand, electric delivery is centralized to a few centers of authority and can literally be turned off by flipping switches. For example, your power company can cut you off easily. Crucially, however, electricity can also be monitored easily. So if the government implements a limit for usage during "peak hours," as the EU is proposing, you could be personally throttled in normal circumstances and there wouldn't be anything you could do about it. Or it's also possible that in order to enforce "climate lockdowns" the government can throttle or cut off your entire neighborhood to stop people from traveling. Again, this is effective with flipping a few switches.

In case for some reason you're dumb enough to think none of this will apply to you because you'll charge your iCar at night, away from peak hours, they've got you covered there too. Bidirectional charging, or the ability for a car to send power instead of receive it, has been proposed as a way for EV owners to "help" the grid. Right now it's discussed as a voluntary feature. One only needs to glance at CA's history with water rationing and brownouts to see how long that'll last.

It's not that gas delivery can't be stopped. It's that stopping electric delivery is far easier and more flexible and therefore can be deployed in a low intensity situation. With gas you have a huge network composed of many individual chain links, from the suppliers all the way down to the local gas station, and each of those links has a reserve of gas. You could force that to stop, but it would be a colossal undertaking that would only be justifiable with declaration of war against the population or something equivalent.

On the other hand, electric delivery is centralized to a few centers of authority and can literally be turned off by flipping switches. For example, your power company can cut you off easily. Crucially, however, electricity can also be monitored easily. So if the government implements a limit for usage during "peak hours," as the EU is proposing, you could be personally throttled in normal circumstances and there wouldn't be anything you could do about it. Or it's also possible that in order to enforce "climate lockdowns" the government can throttle or cut off your entire neighborhood to stop people from traveling. Again, this is effective with flipping a few switches.

In case for some reason you're dumb enough to think none of this will apply to you because you'll charge your iCar at night, away from peak hours, they've got you covered there too. Bidirectional charging, or the ability for a car to send power instead of receive it, has been proposed as a way for EV owners to "help" the grid. Right now it's discussed as a voluntary feature. One only needs to glance at CA's history with water rationing and brownouts to see how long that'll last.