“I think many Freepers have never been outside of the United States.”
You say that as if it’s a bad thing. I’ll stay out of the rest of the world if this crap car will stay out of the United States.
This crap car isn't coming to the United States, not in any model that so much as vaguely resembles the one this article is discussing.
This crap car will, however, be sold in the millions upon millions to the residents of developing nations enabling hundreds of millions of people to become consumers of petroleum. You don't need to ever leave the country to have this unpleasant but very real fact affect you greatly.
Remain willfully ignorant of the outside world at your peril. Don't feel bad. You're hardly alone among Americans who haven't the slightest clue --or care, of how the world outside our borders functions.