You can absolutely blackmail innocent people. Not all information you don’t want to get shared is illegal.

E.g. If you send someone nudes and they blackmail you with: money or post online, the only one that committed a crime is the blackmailer.

Of course that doesn’t quite apply in this case, but it is dangerous to generalize.

I wonder how plug-in hybrids are that bad in terms of gas-to-electric ratio. Might need a proper source on that. Most usage should be from work-home travel, and that should be reachable with just electric power.

Maybe the solution is not simply to block hybrids, but to solve the reasons they don’t drive electric. This could be putting more chargers at home/workplace or something else entirely (idk what the analysis pointed out as reason)

But have you considered that those assholes lobbied very hard to protect their interest? Shouldn’t their money and time investment be rewarded?

/s just in case