The Existential Threat Hits Home

Guest Post by Eric Peters

Nearly 4,000 Ford dealers have publicly pushed back against the push to cram EVs down their (and our) throats. This is good news – in the same way that it was good news when people began to refuse to take the drugs being pushed on them as “vaccines.”

But the dealers – let alone the car manufacturers – haven’t yet pushed back against the predicate for the pushing.

Against the lie that it is necessary to push people into EVs – that is, to use EVs to push most people out of cars (and thereby, most car dealers out of business) – in order to avert a “climate crisis.”

This is vile nonsense is of a piece with the lying predicate that served as the basis for the push to inject people with drugs that weren’t “vaccines.” In the case of the latter, that there was a mass die-off event looming that could only be averted if the masses submitted to being injected with drugs that turned out to not be “vaccines.” Now the masses are told an existential threat looms that can only be averted if the masses accept being pushed into EVs – which they begin to understand means pushing most of them out of cars (and driving) because most of them cannot afford an EV and because for many of them, the EV is functionally useless for more than occasional use.

Note the curious commonality of the lie – which in both cases came in the form of a purposeful exaggeration of truth, meant to foment mass hysteria – in order to get the masses to accept what would otherwise be unacceptable.

Yes, there was a bug going around. Just as there have always been bugs going around. Just as every Fall, more people catch them. Just as more older people get seriously sick and end up dying when they catch them. Just as old people become more and more likely to die as they get older, even if they don’t catch a bug.

Yes, the “climate” is “changing.” It is always changing – a fact once understood by most people to be part of the nature of things – before it became “unnatural” in the minds of some people for the elderly to die.

Ever, apparently.

It has become an imminent catastrophe – in the minds of some, who genuinely believe it. Notwithstanding that it has been “imminent” for decades. Many of these are the same people who genuinely believed it was necessary to wear a “mask” – and continue to believe it.

Some may believe it forever.

Just the same as the people who continue believe that we are living in the End Times – or are about to – on account of a literally fractional increase in the fraction of the 0.04 percent of the Earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide. This is hysterical – and not in the it’s funny sense. And just as as a similar hysteria – the cases! the cases! if you remember – was used to foment panic and thereby render the questioning of it a kind of moral affront – this hysteria about a “climate crisis” is being used to get people to shut up about the push to get everyone into an EV – and thereby push most of them out of owning a car.

But there is another commonality.

When evidence began to percolate that the drugs being pushed on people were not “vaccines” – which became apparent when people who took them continued to get and spread the bug they had been assured they would not get and could not spread – and (this is the critical part) threatened their health, people began to refuse to take them. However hard they were being pushed. Because nothing is worth your health – to say nothing of your life. Certainly not a job – or being allowed to enter a restaurant.  

The drugs had become – because they were (and are) – an existential threat.

It is interestingly similar with regard to the pushing of EVs, which people begin to see as an the existential threat they are to their once-assumed and taken-for-granted right to drive a car they could afford to buy.

The dealers are seeing it, too.

It is one thing to go along (to get along) with sickness kabuki such as the wearing of a “mask” and performing various odd rituals which, in healthier times, were performed exclusively by the mentally ill. These can be seen (and were seen) as temporary stupidities that would pass. Some also saw them as a way to publicly express their virtue – which in our time seems to be synonymous with affirming whatever the Latest Thing happens to be. But all of that goes out the window when people’s health is actually threatened. When they perceive that is, their survival instinct overrides the instinct to go-along to get-along.

The same is now rebooting – and may (fingers crossed) – put the kibosh on the push to get people into EVs, so as to get most of them out of cars. Understanding is percolating. More and more people are seeing the truth – not just about the limitations of EVs – but that EVs are an existential threat to their way of life.

The dealers’ revolt is a good start. It is akin to the way Florida provided an example of both resistance and sanity contra the mass insanity that still afflicted so much of the rest of the country. Florida’s example gave courage to the rest of the country and made it much more difficult for states ruled by gesundheitsfuhrers such as Kathy Hochul in NY to continue with the kabuki.

Now, if just one major automaker – Ford could be the one – would push back and tell the Biden regime that it won’t continue pushing EVs on its dealers – or their customers – and will instead be making cars (and trucks!) that people want and dealers can sell.

That there is no “climate crisis.”

There is only this malevolent push to get most people out of car ownership (and driving) by pushing EVs most people can’t afford – and that dealers can’t afford to sell.

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18 Comments
Cricket
Cricket
December 3, 2023 7:19 pm

I supported Ford for not taking the bailout money when GM and Chrysler went bankrupt in the late 2000s by buying one of their SUVs and planning to buy one of their trucks in the near future. If Ford wants to bet the farm on EVs, let them and let them fail. If Ford goes tits up, it’s their own fault. Toyota will still take my truck money.

Rod
Rod
  Cricket
December 3, 2023 7:56 pm

Ford alone was smart enough to see the doomsday coming in 2008 and instead mortgaged most of their plants, buildings, and offices in order to have enough money to see them through the tough times they (correctly) felt were coming. The other two schmucks did nothing other than continue to burn their dwindling pile of cash. Of course when push came to shove it was the taxpayer who got thrown under the bus in order for subsidies to flow to the two slow thinkers.

The automotive food chain is pretty vicious, starting at the top with the manufacturers who treat their dealers and suppliers like chattel. The agreements a dealer is forced to enter into with the manufacturers are pretty one sided. Don’t meet quota? You are risking losing your dealership status or more likely do not realize a higher profit margin. Don’t like the terms? Then you don’t get the “coveted” dealership in the first place.

The dealers of course are likewise infected with the same slimy mindset that holds that it is all right to screw the customer any way they can (and often do).

As far as the lie goes, pay attention to the science: Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. As for machines that rely on energy to perform work, the most that can be expected from a relatively mature industry like ICE transportation machines is for small increases in efficiency, whether the ICE is marginally improved or replaced by an electric motor. The amount of work required to get a mass from point A to point B varies only with the efficiency of the machine that is used to move the mass. Of course the economics of all this gets muddled by the pushers of the big lie. Pretty much along the same lines as the true cost of corn derived ethanol is not entirely recovered at the pump-as always, subsidies, favorable tax treatments, and other opaque offsets make the “solution” expensive and uneconomical compared to the “problem” they claim to solve. Sadly, market distortions are a way of life, each and every time.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
December 3, 2023 8:01 pm

39% of Ford’s common stock is owned by 10 institutions including Vanguard, Blackrock & State Street. That is why Ford will do what they are told.

A9racer
A9racer
December 3, 2023 10:04 pm

Guy in the vid that couldn’t charge probably said something derogatory in another vid and his social credit score would not allow him to charge. They are showing us what is in store, people.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  A9racer
December 4, 2023 9:17 am

“Card declined. Code 405”

[Searches internet for ‘code 405’]

Code 405 “No electricity shall be sold to people who expose the flaws in the system.”

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
December 3, 2023 10:10 pm

I think the odds are pretty good that if Trump wins next year, he and the republicans in congress would roll back most of the EV mandates.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
  Iska Waran
December 3, 2023 10:22 pm

You forgot the sarc tag, Iska.

Walter
Walter
  Mary Christine
December 3, 2023 11:15 pm

No doubt.

Ed
Ed
  Iska Waran
December 4, 2023 9:18 pm

That’s funny as hell, Iska. Tell another one.

Arthur
Arthur
December 4, 2023 6:02 am

+1 for Scotty.

Anonymous
Anonymous
December 4, 2023 9:13 am

Whichever corporation “takes a stand” against Uncle Samuel, they could live off of the patriotism for years of ad copy.

Anonymous
Anonymous
December 4, 2023 9:20 am

The auto manufacturers sealed their own fate when they started their own financing departments.
Thus, they were stealing usury interest the bankers feel is solely their trade.
Thus the bankers stepped in and ruined the auto manufacturers from the inside out.

Maybe next time they don’t get smart and steal the “vig” off the tables of the uber wealthy.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
December 4, 2023 9:21 am

Eric, you bought one?

Not as smart as I thought you were.

Ed
Ed
  hardscrabble farmer
December 4, 2023 9:22 pm

I didn’t see anything about Eric buying an EV.

Steve Z.
Steve Z.
December 4, 2023 9:26 am

I’ve heard ..get ready to pay a lot more to insure your EV. The fire aspect of these is expensive. One caught fire in a parking garage and took something like 180 cars out and destroyed the garage. $$millions in damages. Businesses don’t want the dam things anywhere near or on the business premises. Again, because of the fire hazard.
everybody is realizing what a PITA these things are. The sizzle is wearing off and the remaining steak is rancid.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
December 4, 2023 10:22 am

The Empire Strikes Back

Tlate
Tlate
December 4, 2023 11:35 am

The grid cannot support a large influx of EVs. Remember when Newsome told Californians not to charge their EVs when their grid was maxed out due to a heat wave, I think it was. Only an insane administration would be cutting back on fossil fuels for the grid while simultaneously pushing EVs which require more electricity thereby straining the existing grid and driving prices for electricity up.

Anonymous
Anonymous
December 4, 2023 1:56 pm

Remember to avoid EV’s on the used market like the plague. Average life expectancy of the battery system is about 70,000 miles of Charge cycles !
Replacement for the batteries are depending on model $18 to $50 thousand bucks
No gas or diesel vehicles require that costly maintenance after 70 thousand miles
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