Posted on 09/05/2022 12:13:56 PM PDT by gattaca
An electric vehicle ran out of juice on a road in West Virginia. Thankfully for the driver, there was an ironic group that came to the rescue – five coal miners.
Randy Smith – a Republican member of the West Virginia Senate representing District 14 and a coal miner – shared an intriguing situation that happened on Friday.
An electric car ran out of battery charge on U.S. 48, and stopped right in front of the Mettiki Coal access road in Tucker County. Luckily for the stranded driver from out of town, workers from the fossil fuel mine were ready to help out.
"Some days are just better than others," Smith wrote on a Facebook post. "Today at our mine off Corridor H an electric car from D.C. ran out of battery at the road entrance to the mine."
"Someone called one of our foremen and told him a car was broke down in the middle of our haul road," Smith added. "He went to investigate and found out they had indeed ran out of juice coming from DC to Davis for a getaway weekend."
Don't miss out on content from Dave Rubin free of big tech censorship. Listen to The Rubin Report now. The foreman wanted to tow the electric vehicle with a truck, but the EV was "all plastic underneath and nothing to hook up to."
The foreman went to the coal mine to enlist some workers to help push the electric car to the guard house. Then five miners pushed the electric car to the coal mine – which was captured in an ironic photo.
"If you look closely you can see our coal stockpile and load out in the background," Smith explained.
Smith noted, "This just shows you coal miners are good people and will go out of their way to help anyone friend or foe."
Smith added that he was "honestly glad" the miners assisted because the tourist driver would have been marooned since he wouldn't be able to get a tow truck "out in the middle of nowhere."
Smith teased, "One guy even dropped off a 'Friend of Coal' license plate when he left to go home. Lol."
The photo of the five coal miners pushing the electric vehicle went viral on social media.
The owner is the a&&wipe in shorts. They wanted to tow it but the entire underbelly is plastic so they couldn’t. He’s from DC, which speaks volumes.
The irony is so rich in this, and it says volumes.
We don’t know the driver, but he is from Washington, DC, the seat of electric vehicle tyranny, so he is most likely a leftist.
We don’t know the coal miners pushing it, but their livelihoods are being deliberately and imperiled by the same people who are whole heartedly pushing electric vehicles and using those coal miners as their prop.
Yet, they those coal miners go out and push the guy’s car up a hill because he didn’t have the common sense to keep his vehicle adequately charged. And they let him charge the vehicle for free.
Speaks volumes.
It is a different source by a different author, not using the same AP or MSN story, so I assume that is okay isn’t it?
So how does an EV get towed? Or does a forklift just pick it up from the top?
“Speaks volumes.”
Yes, it does.
Coalminers have helped to keep this country going for over a hundred years. It’s a hard life, fraught with peril. Yet, they do it. God bless them.
Absolutely. I am ashamed of our country for demonizing them to achieve political goals.
When the mines are closed, and the going gets tough with people freezing in their homes in places like Washington DC, the coal miners will pick up their helmets and go back into that dangerous earth.
Ironic? It should become iconic.
I see EVs sitting along the interstate often.
I always look for the drivers walking, so I can stop and ask them if they need a ride to go get a gallon of electricity.
So, I had to go look it up and OMG screw all that
https://evcartips.com/can-an-electric-car-get-towed/
Won’t change a damn thing with the leftists. I’m glad to see kind people still in this country, but I would have preferred letting the EV driver rot.
When I did a search, I used the headline from this source, so the other source did not come up.
Wonder which one is the tourist...
“When the mines are closed, and the going gets tough with people freezing in their homes in places like Washington DC, the coal miners will pick up their helmets and go back into that dangerous earth.”
Yes, they will. They are heroes.
Lol!
Yeah. Been posted.
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