People in the US are going to vote for a 16 lane highway so their individual cars can go faster, they are not going to vote for a train to replace some of the demand for the 16 lane highway.

> Funnily enough, things happen when you do them instead of hoping others will.

That is not how allocating tens of billions or trillions of taxpayer dollars works in the US. You have to have the sufficient votes in the legislature to “do things”.

> That is not how allocating tens of billions or trillions of taxpayer dollars works in the US

Of course this is oversimplified FUD, but I was under the impression that we were talking about the relative merits and effectiveness of policies designed to result in "electrified infrastructure" and it is absolutely clear that your original assertion of tinkering with taxes does not and never has worked except as part of an actual plan.

These are the same leaders who, when Trump at the UN warned four years ago that Germany is endangering itself by increasing dependence on Russia, laughed on camera (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfJv9QYrlwgepe>).

Germany is now facing the consequences of the greatest mistake its leaders have made in 80 years, an existential threat to the German (and thus European) economy and even nation-state. You know this. Yet you instead lecture the USA—home of Tesla—on how ACKSHUALLY it need to build more e-infrastructure. The mind boggles.