Are The Controllers Evil Geniuses or Totally Retarded?

Numerous jurisdictions around the world lack adequate grid capacity to mass charge electric vehicles, but governments and corporations are pushing them like crazy. There seems to be no corresponding push--at all--for additional grid capacity.

Consequently, some places are ushering in new regulations to prevent people from charging their vehicles all at once.

If we're really running out of petroleum, electric cars are stupid--it's a more resource intensive form of transportation than petroleum since we've already got the immense infrastructure for that. If we're not, they're also stupid for obvious reasons.

So here's the question--are governments and their puppet masters evil geniuses or are they just retarded?

I think it's the latter. There are undoubtedly clever people puppet mastering the corrupt scumbags in governments, but they're a really specific human type that's not overall useful for people as a whole, nor to anything else other than themselves.

The people can't imagine a bunch of retard conmen are bossing them around and making terrible plans, so they tend to think they're something special about Joe Biden or Bill Gates or whoever pulls their strings.