Posted on 11/10/2021 4:24:51 PM PST by dynachrome
World leaders are currently meeting at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland to review the progress that has been made since the 2015 Paris Climate Accords and negotiate new, more ambitious goals for the future. On Wednesday, six major automakers—including Ford, General Motors, and Mercedes-Benz—and 30 national governments signed a pledge to stop sales of new gas and diesel vehicles by 2040 globally, and by 2035 in “leading markets.” However, the governments of three of the most significant car markets—the United States, China, and Japan—refrained from joining the pledge, as did major automakers such as Toyota, Volkswagen, and Nissan-Renault.
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What fools
Because they want you to enjoy the city life.
It’s all eyewash.
Looks like my next pickup will be a Tundra instead of replacing my current Silverado.
how are they planning on charging all those batteries?
I can drive from iowa to Colorado and stop twice for gas.
A trip like that would be impossible with an electric car
The ChiComs are gonna do it by building coal fired power plants all over the place.
I’ve read they plan to conserve petroleum fuels for the military.
Hard to tell. The transition may be painful, but new discoveries may in the end make personal transportation more pleasant, safe, economical, and free. We’ve ridden on axles and rubber tires for over 100 years. Mass public transit would do itself a favor if it offered some well-tailored privacy.
They aren't.
Phantom promise, bait and switch, etc. Bad management saying what it thinks will profit them in the short run.
Madness
That's the point, to limit your mobility.
Don’t buy any of their crap starting right now. Make their dreams come true!
My uncle has a country place
No one knows about
He says it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law
And on Sundays I elude the eyes
And hop the turbine freight
To far outside the wire
Where my white-haired uncle waits
Jump to the ground
As the turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me an old machine
For 50 odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream
I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better, vanished time
We fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime
Wind in my hair
Shifting and drifting
Mechanical music
Adrenaline surge
Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware
Suddenly ahead of me
Across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air-car
Shoots towards me, two lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires
To run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley
As another joins the chase
Drive like the wind
Straining the limits of machine and man
Laughing out loud with fear and hope
I’ve got a desperate plan
At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded at the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle at the fireside
The future; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRFsoRQYpFM
four visions of city life in 2040 - planned-opolis
“”” The coming slave society portrayed as a good thing using a woman to sell the long term plan as they know if they get the women they have the kids. Use the women to control the men and have this new utopia controlled by a few to benefit the few at the expense of the rest. This is all part of the globalists plan using environmentalists who are using fake data to con us. “””
DUMBASSES....DUMB DUMBASSES!
Oh, an opportunity to establish a new Internal Combustion Engine car company.
I should consider this at length.
They’re aiming for government subsidies, nothing else.
Parts will become amazingly expensive. Ditch 'em now.
MAKE IT STOP! 😵😵
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