Cars are freedom in an increasingly enslaved world. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:

Many people aren’t especially interested in cars but ought to be be – for essentially the same reason that people ought to be more interested in government, per Lenin’s dictum about government being interested in you.
People like Lenin are very interested in cars. More finely, they understand that so long as the average person is both free and able to own a car and free and able to drive it pretty much whenever he likes wherever he likes, the average person will be a free person. The freedom to drive one’s own vehicle spoils all the plans of the people who want to control people – for it is very hard to control people when you do not control their freedom of movement.
Understand this and you will understand everything that’s happening with regard to cars – which seems otherwise inexplicable because it is otherwise nonsensical.
Understand what they know – and hope you’ve forgotten.
Try to think of all the things all-too-many of us have come to take for granted – such as the freedom to live a considerable distance from work, so as to live in a nicer (and probably more affordable) home. The freedom to put distance between yourself and the undesirable – such as (for many of us) too many neighbors too close to us. The car made it possible for average people to get out of cities and crowded towns to raise their families in what they considered to be nicer places. The car made long trips – a for vacations, as to visit family or friends in another part of the country – easy as well as inexpensive.

That must be where Orwell got the inspiration for politics is interested in you even if you aren’t interested in it.
Now that everything is politicized, people can’t even think.
I walk out now when the family bursts into the Trump versus Biden discussion that they never seem to tire of.
One Auntie trolls Bro hard with Brandon is doing a great job and has the country on the right track, one of his buds got up and walked out over that.
She is one of those CPUSA (D) for life union uber alles types still stuck on that democrats helped grampaw 80 years ago or child labor laws.
Saw a dank photochop of Herr Adolf giving a speech on the steps of some government building with the caption…democrats since you learned nothing from history here we are.
Eight states, all on the left/right coasts intend to ban the sale of gas powered vehicles and it wasn’t the Mystery Babylon Bee.
CA even wants electric powered aircraft!
There won’t be any personal mobility in 15m control grid matrix concentrations.