Most people don’t want the EV technology our rulers have selected for us, and that’s infuriating our rulers. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
The Biden Thing’s secretary of transportation – where in the Constitution does it state the federal government shall have the power to micromanage our comings and goings? – said the other day that people who haven’t given up their cars with engines for devices with a battery are similar to people back in the early 2000s who stubbornly refused to embrace the cell phone future.
Words to that effect.
He actually said more than just that. The money quote is as follows:
“The automotive sector is moving toward EVs, and we can’t pretend otherwise. Sometimes when these debates happen, I feel like it’s the early 2000s and I’m talking to some people who think that we can just have landline phones forever.”
Observe the passive voice masking-over the force behind all of this. The automotive sector is not “moving toward EVs.” It is being pushed toward EVs. He then equates not wanting to be pushed to buy something unwanted as being stupid. There is contempt – and menace – in this statement.
The irony of it is also lost on the Biden Thing’s secretary of transportation. Most people did get cell phones because – here it comes! – they offered advantages over land lines. These included more convenience and lower costs overall, if you bought a basic model (these currently can be bought for about $50 and a cheap monthly plan with unlimited service can be purchased for about $35). They also could do more things than just a phone, as everyone knows.
People bought them for the same reason most people prefer hamburgers made of beef rather than Impossible Burgers made of . . . well, whatever they make them out of.
The two letters that determine if you are free:
NO.
Future transportation?
Mule or donkey pulled Zil or Trabant like those B&W photos from Eastern Bloc workers utopias of yore.
Nicolae Ceaușescu thought he was riding high on the horse of 1000 year empire and then one day he wasn’t.
Dear Leaders are only taking orders because virtue signal uber alles.
If only they could give these EVs a classical look they would be a sweeter pill . I mean something like a 1941 Chevy COE.
These futuristic designs are bloody ugly!
This only proves that money isn’t intelligence just persistence.
If you want people to buy what you sell hire a talented designer an artist!
LMFAO! The high powered intellects in that brothel known as congress want to make AM radio mandatory in vehicles but it causes dangerous interference in EV Trabants but it will reach the replacements via foreign language stations.
Not the Mystery Babylon Be. (h/t-FO)
My first jalopy a Chevy only had AM and that is how I found out about El Rushbo.
If manboons survives this time of terminal peak stupidity with the insane at every level of control, it will be a miracle.