Your local gas station has a few days worth of gas at most. All production and transport hubs are centralized and highly regulated. The whole thing is a pipeline that has to be resupplied constantly.

Yes, that's obvious. As I said, every link in the chain has a physical quantity of gas and there are also multiple supplier and dealer networks. Gas does not enter a giant reservoir akin to the grid where it can be dispensed to anyone instantly. It's inherently less controllable and traceable. The logistics of gas are incredibly more difficult than control over the electric grid.

Gas rationing has been implemented in the US in the past with no meaningful resistance. Cutting off gas is at least as easy as cutting off electricity.

You're talking about WWII, when the population supported rationing. To take that context and suggest that proves gas rationing would be easy to implement today is silly.

I know of several people who can make their own electricity using solar panels. It's common to connect to the grid to make money, but converting to an off-grid circuit is just a little rewiring and it would become quite popular if the grid became unreliable. I've never heard of anyone making their own gas.

Off-grid solutions are probably the most attractive points of EVs, so if you have the resources to put up unlicensed panels/windmills and take the heat for running them (connection to the grid will likely be mandatory) then it's a good idea to get some kind of EV.

The overwhelming majority of Americans will not generate their own power, though, so this will not hinder social control measures.

Cutting off the electricity turns any "low intensity situation" into a high intensity one immediately, because you're threatening people's lives with a lack of heating, cooling, refrigeration, safety (lighting), and communication. If you turn off the power to a major city, people start killing each other in days. I can't see a situation where the government turns off electricity intentionally because it would immediately escalate out of control. What do you think people are going to do if they can't watch tv or eat food?

Farmers trying to protest with their tractors? Truckers protesting climate lockdowns/vaccination? Another January 6 situation developing? In all of these situations, being able to instantly target certain people and limit their ability to travel is going to be worth the risk. They would've loved being able to press a few buttons and make the threat of a Freedom Convoy basically harmless. Every major American city burned in 2020, do you think that people killing each other matters that much to them?

It's more likely that throttling happens (to varying levels of severity) instead of just cutting people off though. CA has already asked people not to use large appliances to avoid stressing the grid. The EU is openly discussing electric consumption limits. In a "risk of brownout" situation or a "climate warning" situation people could be restricted to a subsistence level of electricity - instantly.

There's no situation where the government cuts off electricity and doesn't also cut off the gasoline.

I just outlined a few for you. Anyway, in a scenario where the majority of cars on the road can be dealt with by flipping a switch, the ICE holdouts become more manageable. Population control is a problem of averages, not 100% perfection.

The only thing that makes a lick of sense in your scenario is the software updates targeting individuals, but that crapware exists in every single new gas car too so it doesn't make any difference.

It's far easier to push control measures on EVs than ICE. The software is the only gateway and the system is effectively blackboxed from the consumer at this point. Why do you think Mercedes offers a subscription fee to unlock HP for its EVs and not ICE? Conversely, messing with ICE tuning will break the car if the drivetrain parts don't match, and many users mod their ECU.

Your local gas station has a few days worth of gas at most. All production and transport hubs are centralized and highly regulated. The whole thing is a pipeline that has to be resupplied constantly.

Yes, that's obvious. As I said, every link in the chain has a physical quantity of gas and there are also multiple supplier and dealer networks. Gas does not enter a giant reservoir akin to the grid where it can be dispensed to anyone instantly. It's inherently less controllable and traceable. The logistics of gas are incredibly more difficult than control over the electric grid.

Gas rationing has been implemented in the US in the past with no meaningful resistance. Cutting off gas is at least as easy as cutting off electricity.

You're talking about WWII, when the population supported rationing. To take that context and suggest that proves gas rationing would be easy to implement today is silly.

I know of several people who can make their own electricity using solar panels. It's common to connect to the grid to make money, but converting to an off-grid circuit is just a little rewiring and it would become quite popular if the grid became unreliable. I've never heard of anyone making their own gas.

Off-grid solutions are probably the most attractive points of EVs, so if you have the resources to put up unlicensed panels/windmills and take the heat for running them (connection to the grid will likely be mandatory) then it's a good idea to get some kind of EV.

The overwhelming majority of Americans will not generate their own power, though, so this will not hinder social control measures.

Cutting off the electricity turns any "low intensity situation" into a high intensity one immediately, because you're threatening people's lives with a lack of heating, cooling, refrigeration, safety (lighting), and communication. If you turn off the power to a major city, people start killing each other in days. I can't see a situation where the government turns off electricity intentionally because it would immediately escalate out of control. What do you think people are going to do if they can't watch tv or eat food?

Farmers trying to protest with their tractors? Truckers protesting climate lockdowns/vaccination? Another January 6 situation developing? In all of these situations, being able to instantly target certain people and limit their ability to travel is going to be worth the risk. They would've loved being able to press a few buttons and make the threat of a Freedom Convoy basically harmless. Every major American city burned in 2020, do you think that people killing each other matters that much to them?

It's more likely that throttling happens (to varying levels of severity) instead of just cutting people off though. CA has already asked people not to use large appliances to avoid stressing the grid. The EU is openly discussing electric consumption limits. In a "risk of brownout" situation or a "climate warning" situation people could be restricted to a subsistence level of electricity - instantly.

There's no situation where the government cuts off electricity and doesn't also cut off the gasoline.

I just outlined a few for you. Anyway, in a scenario where the majority of cars on the road can be dealt with by flipping a switch, the ICE holdouts become more manageable. Population control is a problem of averages, not 100% perfection.

The only thing that makes a lick of sense in your scenario is the software updates targeting individuals, but that crapware exists in every single new gas car too so it doesn't make any difference.

It's far easier to push control measures on EVs than ICE. The software is the only gateway and the system is effectively blackboxed from the consumer at this point. Why do you think Mercedes offers a subscription fee to unlock HP for its EVs and not ICE? Conversely, messing with ICE tuning will break the car if the drivetrain parts don't match, and aftermarket ECU mods are normal.