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Nobody is coming for your cars and “forcing “you to drive electric. When that happens I might raise an eyebrow. 🤨
It’s not gonna happen overnight. It’s going to take time to get the infrastructure in place.
It’s still in “early adopter” phase, but so close to getting out of it. Therefore, yeah, it’s gonna be expensive and require tech abilities. Nobody bought an Apple I computer for $666 back in 1976 and expected to do anything more than tinker and experiment. Now I can buy a fcking watch with more computing power than I had on my desk 20y ago.
Does it mean in 20y we’re gonna be paying $10 a gallon for something resembling gasoline to put in our obsolete but awesome cars? Will it be harder to find? Yeah. I’m expecting that. Supply and demand and all that free market BS.
I wonder how the push to get power and telephone to every house back in the 30s(?) would have gone over today. Iirc tho it resulted in advancement, competition, etc etc. and generally was a boon to those who didn’t have either. There were a lot of failed systems and devices (just ask Mr. Edison) before we arrived at our current standard. The market and the science decided.
A few new nuclear plants here and there would totally kick *ss and solve the grid issue but people are generally reactionary and afraid of things they don’t understand.
Elon publicly said he wants to outlaw all manually driven cars as he considers them death machines. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
(Not aimed at you specifically but) And in other news, Tim Apple thinks everyone should have a Macintosh computer and Coke thinks Pepsi sucks and nobody should drink it.
Yeah I think trying to get the car to drive for you is stupid and is still a long long way off and is gonna get more people killed.
And This whole “slippery slope” BS is just that. Nobody’s forcing you to buy one. Nobody’s hauling you off to the gulag if you don’t. The “free market” will decide. It is deciding. If Chrysler doesn’t want to make Hellcats any more…. 🤷♂️ Convince them they're wrong. If a bunch of TV fanboy nerds can convince a studio to bring back old programs…. Just saying.
And with that, I’ll just say this as I put my admin hat on, no doubt branding me a commie pinko sympathizer by most of you again, ….
Let’s stay on topic and leave the political BS and world domination slippery slope conspiracy stuff out of it. Please? It’d be nice to actually discuss a topic without all that.
Kthx.