It's the same reason with the government's push for EVs. They want to be able to control the population movements by limiting the distances/range and methods of obtaining that said energy. It is very easy to do with electricity.
I find it quite fascinating how well the sheep are conditioned and oblivious to all of this prolific invasion of government into their daily lives. They just accept it, or to put it bluntly, take it up the ass and believe it's normal.
Then the whole illegal problem we have. That alone is making our nation weaker by the minute.
I see the US being a different landscape in the very near future.