It's supposed to make us happy to be digital slaves, confined to a radius of travel around our pods.
Mandating "smart" EVs will be a big part of this control grid matrix.
Posted on 12/08/2022 6:15:13 AM PST by lowbridge
Winter is coming.
OK, technically meteorological winter arrived last week, beginning as it does every year on Dec. 1. Astronomical winter, which is the one that shows up on your calendar as “First Day of Winter,” doesn’t kick off until Dec. 21.
But if you drive a Ford F-150 Lighting electric pickup truck, it may have felt like winter to you for quite a while already, especially if you live in a colder climate and follow the manufacturer’s recommendations for extending the vehicle’s range during the snowy season.
Because I don’t want to be accused of taking anything out of context, I’m going to just list those recommendations in their entirety, commenting as I go. (I’ll put Ford’s wording in italics for clarity, and I won’t cut anything they wrote — you can double-check me here if you’re the less trusting sort.)
(Excerpt) Read more at ijr.com ...
LOL!
It's supposed to make us happy to be digital slaves, confined to a radius of travel around our pods.
Mandating "smart" EVs will be a big part of this control grid matrix.
Easy fix. Put a propane tank and heater in the cab.
No problems.
It won’t be optional in 5 years. It will be mandatory.
Somebody posted a story about a tesla gonad 3 in 14 degree and colder weather. The poster seemed impressed he could make a WHOLE 55 mile, 110 mile round trip on a single charge. Wow, I’m unimpressed. I go further than that just for groceries and to Home Despot.
Diesel is down to $2.85 a gallon down at the Valero station in Fritch, Texas hometown of Ron White. Why you say is diesel down. Well, it has to do with demand and supply.
https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/weekly/distillate.php
Time to top off the fuel tanks.
Hey, where’s our Globalists who make a point of defending EVs on every thread?
You could drive around with a portable kerosene heater, but I don’t think that’s recommended.
“However, if a vehicle’s range decreases significantly in the winter because of the heater, then people won’t (or shouldn’t) buy the truck.”
Of course, but I was trying to help out our resident Globalists, who haven’t yet shown up to this thread.
And don’t go up hills if possible only go down hills.
i’m waiting for the calculation of when peak lithium comes up. There is enough lithium to create batteries for 10B leaf cars. I think tesla uses twice the battery.
Not a joke?
The whole idea is a joke.
The fuel saved by EVs cost $26 a gallon for the subsidies. Some great deal for US huh?
Residents will be confined to their local neighborhood and have to ask permission to leave...
Like the Old Soviet Union.
What about headlights and the radio?
Shouldn’t they be on the ‘Do Not Use’ list too?
EVs are for suburban housewives to virtue grandstand in the Starbucks line.
Gotcha. Sorry I missed that :)
Once they get beyond the niche market, no rational person who really needs a pickup truck for their livelihood will ever buy one of these EVs. Ford will never make a profitable return on the huge capital investment it foolishly made in electric vehicles. Neither will GM. Both will go bankrupt and become government entities. That is exactly what the Left wanted. Owning a reliable vehicle gives people too much freedom and autonomy.
Waiting to hear to buy a horse to use for travel!
Great pic. I lived two miles from my workplace and it took me about 20-30 minutes to commute via bike. In philly the buses will kill you as look at you.
Actually in the USSR they had “internal passports,” but nobody really kept anybody as confined as this plan.
Few had cars, but RR and plane travel was relatively cheap, being heavily govt subsidized.
An example: an orchard farmer in Georgia could load 2 suitcases with fresh oranges, fly Aeroflot to Moscow, sell the oranges for cash rubles, and then buy consumer goods. He’d load up the same two suitcases and fly back to Georgia.
He might have his internal passport checked, but if he had no “problems,” (not a known dissident), he’d be allowed to buy the tickets and board the train or plane and travel anywhere within the USSR. He just couldn’t leave the USSR itself. (Or visit “sensitive” military sites or border regions, etc.)
This unfolding scenario, being geo-fenced to a radius around your house to “save the planet,” is actually a lot worse than travel restrictions in the old USSR.
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