Electric Cars: The 20 Kilowatt Lifestyle?

It takes a civilization level infrastructure to produce the 10 kilowatt civilization. (see previous post for the chart). A large portion of the current infrastructure relies on petroleum and other fossil fuels. It's pretty likely that infrastructure is running flat out, or close to flat out. It seems unlikely we have the natural resources, or the new technology to jump to the 20 kilowatt civilization.

Electric cars probably need that 20 kilowatt lifestyle infrastructure to be a practical replacements for fossil fuel cars. The machine of civilization would have get bigger and consume more rather than get smaller and more energy efficient, which is the probably phony promise of electric vehicles.

I think you can't even shift that 10 kilowatts per person around to smaller populations and make it to 20 kilowatts among those sub-populations. (hunger games style) It takes the whole western world running flat out to keep the 10 kilowatts per person thing going. I think if the technocrats try to push a large portion of the western world into poverty to shift resources to cities and wealthy enclaves, the whole thing will just fall apart.... Unfortunately, that's probably where we are heading.