The difference is there are all these gas stations all over the country full of gasoline. People also have boats with 100's of gallons of gasoline and other storage. I've been through several hurricanes and finding gasoline even without power for 2 weeks was never an issue. The government would have to block refueling of gas stations for weeks before they could shut off movement then they'd have to wait weeks for people to run out of any stored fuel.

I remember one hurricane from high school where we were out of power for 2 weeks. We were siphoning gas from anywhere we could get it and storing it in a boat with a 1,000-gallon tank which started about half full. We had enough fuel to drive across the country and back if we had wanted to without any issues. I was driving around like everything was normal during that period. Seeing friends and family daily picking up water from the national guard, etc.

With EV's all you have to do is flip off the power and they'll all be dead in days at most with a couple hundred-mile range maximum. I'll take petrochemicals in a disaster any day of the week.

Now if we're talking no power for months that's a whole different situation and solar panels are the least of your concern. You're moving more into the realm of how many bullets do you have at that point.

> They'd have to pinpoint ration electricity to households to keep people from using wall outlets to charge their cars.

No they wouldn't. Basically every EV is Internet-connected, so they just need to tell the manufacturers to remotely disable the cars.