I know! Sometimes I feel like the last guy running around at the end of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers when I go to work on the North Shore of Mass.
The people down there (and now in NH) believe this stuff hook, line, and sinker. And they won't believe anything else. And then they drive away in their Chevy Suburbans and Yukon's.
You could take them at their word and set their SUVs on fire. Looks different when it’s not Earth First doing something about it on some dealer’s inventory.