Posted on 02/07/2019 12:51:55 PM PST by ppaul
A fundamentally American freedom is under attack. The automobile defined the 20th century in the United States. Mass production made cars available to the nation's middle class and helped create the modern suburb, where most Americans now live. Driving became part of coming of age in America...Meanwhile, some cities have put their drivers on forced road diets. They are reducing lanes available to drivers on key arterial streets...The goal is to discourage driving by intentionally reducing capacity and creating traffic congestion by design...The bottom line is they want to force more residents to use alternative transportation by making driving as unpleasant as possible. Since when did the automobile, which helped drive this nation's development and success, become a public enemy?
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When they invented CVT transmissions.
“When is this thing gonna shift?”
Why drive your car when you can on a seat smeared with excrement and smell the homeless progressive sitting - or laying - or vomiting - next to you?
Public transportation. Only for the hoi polloi.
Not for uber leader bimbos - such as Pelosi and Occasional Cortex.
Hopefully, we’ll have a very special guillotine for those two following CW-II.
Their goal (GOP and DNC) is to control and tax
and destroy freedom by passing laws
that do not apply to THEM.
When my Mom got her car with the CVT transmission, she kept speeding up and slowing down trying to make the car shift gears.
It was like riding in a mail truck.
“Mom, this car doesn’t have gears. It has a....well....it’s magic, but it doesn’t have any gears.”
Why one would think that the Leftists don’t believe in global warming or pollution caused by congestion...
Yeah, the One World crowd would prefer it if us commoners don’t own anything, certainly not our own house and car.
The CVT in my car (Subaru) works great, but I just drove a relatively new Nissan this weekend that I am sure had one, and I thought it was a real dog.
The same year pregnancy was deemed to be a 'health issue' and treated like a disease.
It is all about control.
That’s it.
They cannot directly control your movements in a car for the most part, but they sure can control it on public transportation.
They like to dress it up in environmental fluff, but it is all about steely-eyed control of people.
they want the people out of the suburbs and back in to the cities where they can control them more easily.
If you live in NYC (Manhattan) what do you need a car for? This assumes that you never leave a walkable radius from thier mass transit.
Huh ... I got one about a year ago (Corolla); it works great. Smooth power from stop to highway speed.
Driving is under assault because the population of the US got too large to sustain the wonderful life styles us older folk grew up with in the 1950s and 1960s.
That’s probably because the car you got had a CVT with no overdrive.
Overdrive always goes faster.
In Russia, even if the traffic is completely jammed for the common driver, there is always a special lane reserved for the elite. This is one elite perk that did not disappear with the Soviet Union.
Yeah, but my Mom wasn’t driving your Corolla.
She’d drive for you, but you’d have to give her a beer.
That’s how we got to school in the morning.
This freedom-killing notion is surely being taught in public skools. I know of a few teenagers that have reached driving age and have no interest in getting a license much less a car.
I can’t understand it. I couldn’t wait to drive. I can still feel the excitment I had the first few times my parents let me borrow their car and go off to the mall or work on my own.
I guess the skools are doing their bit to stomp that desire out of the kids.
When leftists decided that personal freedom was not a foundational American principle, but rather just a peculiar obsession of evil conservatives.
Auto markets are already adjusting. The market for smaller ‘crossovers’ is booming. Same length but roomier than subcompact cars, higher seating position and ground clearance for declining road conditions, AWD and safety features. From cheap to high-performance luxury.
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