Posted on 07/12/2023 1:24:27 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Not that it will be easy to get consumers to give up their gasoline-powered cars. Mr. Mills writes:
. . . policies unprecedented in scope and consequence are planned to ban the sale of the type of vehicle that 99% of people use—that is, vehicles powered by an internal combustion engine (ICE). Instead, government policies are being launched to mandate, directly and indirectly, electric vehicles (EVs).
Rarely has a government, at least the U.S. government, banned specific products or behaviors that are so widely used or undertaken. Indeed, there have been only two comparably far-reaching bans in U.S. history: the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the consumption of alcohol (repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment); and the 1974 law prohibiting driving faster than 55 mph. Neither achieved its goals; both were widely flouted, and the first one engendered unintended consequences, not least of which was criminal behavior.
The data show that there is nothing to the belief that people in general, or in the rising generation, are giving up driving...
Another pillar of the peak-car thesis is that urbanization diminishes the need for cars, especially the need for people to drive long distances. Census data, however, show that the urbanization trend ended around 2010, when net migration to nonmetro and rural areas began. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
and meat, guns, A/C and natural gas. Electricity will be prohibitively expensive too.
FMCDH
America is rather big on cars and other vehicles. Might be a mistake to mess around with that too much.
And your kids. Don’t forget that one.
My daily driver a 1957 Bel Air. Sports car a 1967 Camaro. Truck a 1949 Advanced Chevy 3/4 ton.
I’m good for 30 years until the idiots have died living in their stick huts.
Or, some “accidents” happen to the social engineers and none of those things will be prohibitively expensive.
Hmm, which is more likely to happen, I wonder? That 99.9% of people on the planet will just accept a lower standard of living for no reason, or that the 0.1% who insist on it will find themselves in an unfortunate situation?
When gas is taxed up to $10/gal what are you going to do?
They also like their small engines for doing yard work.
And they vote Democrat Party.
What is the donation-collection, personal-wealth-enrichment operation known as the Republican Party doing to stop this and protect us?
Less than Didley Squat.
till they cut off the fuel for your engines.
This is the same as when the Govt banned Incandescent light bulbs and mandated the mercury filled florescent bulbs to save the environment.
Today LED is king and the consumer has an unmandated choice that they want to make
Did you really think the Demonicrat kakistocracy would stop with murdering children of the womb and perverting the children who were born?!?
He’s a Chevy guy...
What can you do?
Thanks. But not going to sign up to read. Can the whole article be offered?
So true. Let’s also not forget families, church, healthcare, currency, speech, science and biology, and American sovereignty. Oh yah, the military will be converted to all EVs in a decade. That should go smashinglywell. I don’t want a crystal ball for 2035.
“My daily driver a 1957 Bel Air. Sports car a 1967 Camaro. Truck a 1949 Advanced Chevy 3/4 ton.”
Very cool. I have my grandfather’s 3100 1949 Advanced Chevy. My grandfather taught me how to drive in it. At the time it had a three on the column but I have changed it to a four on the floor. It still has the inclosed driveline and the original 216 cu engine. I am close to finish a frame up restoration. I do love it.
I got a nice Strobe Lite for ya...
Unless I find the Baja Bug I need,
I’ll never need it.
Never will you find that they leave things live or die on the merits of the thing.
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