Do we?
99.9% of people never drive in the outback. I've been up and down the east coast by car and motorbike, and over to Adelaide, but the only time I've been to Perth is a brief stop at the airport while going from Johannesburg to Melbourne.
The whole thing is - you can still have your ICE car, getting an EV is not compulsory. Fuel will be available at service stations (maybe less stations) for the rest of your life.
But the change is coming, because it makes sense. It's like an argument I had with someone on here a few years back who didn't like LED lights and wanted to keep his old 60w / 100w incandescents. If you want to spend more to run them, go for it, but don't think progress is going to stop because you don't like it.