Electric cars are a good way to appease one's conscience without actually solving the problem.  On the surface, they seem to solve the environmental problem of dirty energy. However, manufacturing the battery requires the use of extremely toxic chemicals, and the battery itself contains very toxic materials that must be disposed of once its lifetime has passed.  Guess what they do with the batteries then.  That's right, heap it onto the landfills.  Which is just another way of polluting the environment.

Furthermore, charging said batteries for your trip requires a source of energy.  Some of this energy may come from "clean" sources like hydroelectric energy. But a lot of it comes from toxic sources like nuclear power plants or the burning of coal.  Hydroelectric energy alone isn't nearly enough to meet the world's hunger for more power.  So even if you ignore the battery issue, the act of driving an electric car ultimately boils down to more pollution of the environment.

There is no winning this game.  It's called thermodynamics, and no matter how you try, you'll never get free energy. Energy has to come from somewhere; none of the known "clean" sources of energy have a high enough yield to satisfy the world's demands.  Either that, or it's just too darned expensive to be feasible.  As long as the energy demand remains at current levels, you'll never solve the pollution problem.  The best you could do is to shift it from one type of pollution to another, like shift from burning gasoline to burning coal or using nuclear power plants.

The only way to fix the real problem is to change our lifestyle.  From an energy-hungry lifestyle to an energy-conserving one.  Unfortunately, humans are unlikely to adopt such a solution.  Just like maintaining a healthy diet, the vast majority would rather pop a magical pill or buy some miracle scam drug or so-called "super food" (that changes every 10 years), do anything but change their bad habits and unhealthy lifestyles.  Instead of changing an unhealthy diet people would rather eat the same unhealthy food as they always have, and then order a Diet Coke in order to appease their conscience.  Electric cars are the automobile equivalents of Diet Coke: they let us continue the same unhealthy lifestyles that we've always lived, while letting us pat ourselves on the back that we're, oh, burning less gasoline.  In the meantime, pollution continues to increase and the environment continues to deteriorate.

The left eye said to the right eye: between us, something smells!

The right eye replied, yeah it really blows!

A lithium ion battery was running low, and a helpful salt shaker helpfully plugged him to the wall socket. However, the police turned up and arrested them both.

Why?

A salt and battery charges.

English is a weird language.

We drive on the parkway but park on the driveway.

Noses run but feet smell.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

Doctor: I'm afraid to inform you that your DNA is backwards.
Patient: And?

And if a psychiatrist puts you in a straitjacket, you would be shrink wrapped.

My wife tried to beat me at scrabble but I wooden letter. 😁

Cool, sounds like apt pinning is what I'm looking for. Will try it and see.

I know what I did is unsupported / foolish / whatever.  But I got it to (mostly) work.  So now I'm just looking for a way to clean things up.  Reinstalling isn't really an option since this is my primary PC.

The CEO of IKEA was elected for president of Sweden.

... he is still assembling his cabinet.

I was hit by a bottle of Omega 3 pills. Luckily, my wounds were only super fish oil.

Why did the chicken cross the road?
- to get to the other side.

Why did the cartoonist cross the road?
- to get to the Far Side.