Reply #38: You are confusing cause and effect.

[kristopher]

You "prove" there is no conspiracy by pointing to the economics of EV vs ICE. Your argument, as I understand it, is that these economic factors are somehow just there and have no connection to the fossil fuel companies except as they are able to provide the the least cost alternative in the equation.

That isn't a proof of no collusion among fossil fuel interests. The longer the economic disparity can be maintained, the better it is for the fossil fuel interests. If they fossil fuel companies DO NOT act in every legal manner possible to prevent technical and economic advancement in an area that presents a substantial threat to their profitability then they are violating their fiduciary responsibilities to their stockholders.

The claim that they haven't worked actively to obstruct development and deployment of the most promising technologies that threten them (including EVs) is simply absurd.