Guest Post by Eric Peters
They have been made to back down.
They have been forced to ease-up on their pushing of electric vehicles – meant to push most of us not only out of driving but also out of living too far away from the urban hives where they want to herd us – which are the only areas where owning one of these devices is even plausibly practical, on account of the short-distances driven and only having to wait 30-45 minutes at a “fast” charger rather than hours (or days) at home.
Instead of two-thirds of all new vehicles having to be electric by 2032 – as they had intended – by using regulations that would effectively force two-thirds of the vehicles that aren’t electric off the market by then – it is now only about a third (about 35 percent) by then.
“The Biden administration on Wednesday slashed its target for U.S. electric-vehicle adoption from 67 percent by 2032 to as little as 35 percent after industry and autoworker backlash in the political battleground state of Michigan,” says a news story published the other day by Reuters.
Mark the italics, to begin with.
Wasn’t there something in the Constitution about the executive branch of the government being an administrative branch of the federal government? That is to say, where did the executive branch – which is not the legislative branch – acquire the lawful authority, under the Constitution, to set “targets” for anything? Is that not the lawful charge of the Congress?
Never mind.
We all understand the executive branch is in fact the imperial branch. “I am the decider,” said The Chimp – and he was only the first to say so out loud. Many Deciders preceded him and that is in part why we find ourselves where we are.
As regards cars, the Deciding began more than 50 years ago, when the first then-trivial-seeming and even valuable-seeming “regulations” were Decided upon; which is to say, the government Decided its value judgments overrode yours, as the car buyer – as well as the car manufacturer’s. Thus was the precedent set that the free market for cars was over, to be replaced by a Soviet one – in which the manufacturers built what the government allowed and people were allowed to buy what the government allowed them to buy.
Inevitably, such allowances diminished what was available to increasingly one-size-fits-all government approved transportation appliances, of which the electric vehicle is a kind of apotheosis. It is the perfect avatar of everything wanted by a consolidated central authority. Everyone driving essentially the same thing – connected to the same central infrastructure, controlled by the infrastructure down to the way you’re allowed to pay for what you’re allowed to use – which is only electronically (no cash) which ought to be revelatory.
But – like “mask” wearing and drug-pushing – the insistence that everyone will drive an electric vehicle was met with resistance, once people began to understand what was being pushed on them. The “masks” did not “work” – except as psychological devices that were used to make it appear a “pandemic” was afoot. More finely, to make everyone look as though they agreed one was afoot.
To enforce conformity, in other words.
Similarly, the drugs pushed encountered what was styled by those pushing them as “hesitancy” about taking them. In fact, it was rational aversion to being pushed to take drugs on a just-trust-us basis, which a rational person has the same aversion to when it comes to buying a used car without first having the thing checked out. Enough people smelled a rat – a thing very different from the oily shaming of their prudence and rational self-interest as “hesitancy.” Enough so as to establish what turned out to be a control group of “unvaxxed” – there they go again – people who didn’t keep catching cold and didn’t develop strange and formerly uncommon chronic health problems such as heart inflammation, Bells Palsy and sudden, “unexpected” death.
And now many people are healthily “hesitant” about everything being pushed by those who pushed the mRNA drugs – and who pushed “masks” on people who weren’t sick and styled them “asymptomatic” spreaders.
The beauty of crying wolf.
They have done so several times too many. It no longer arouses the same general alarm it once did. The same willingness to go-along it once did.
They have been upping their latest wolf-crying, about the “climate emergency,” as it is now styled. Emergency apparently carrying more psychological power (so they hope) than crisis. But it has not been enough to get enough people to buy an electric vehicle. Just the same as it is no longer enough to cry Wolf! about the “latest variant” to get people to “mask up” – or take another “booster.”
The EVs – like the little vials of drugs – stack up, unwanted. There are fleets of brand-new 2023 model year EVs still awaiting buyers, who may never come. And we are already a third of the way into 2024, almost. The car manufacturers have had to stop making what the government has been pushing because it has become embarrassing – as well as ruinous, for them.
Good. That is precisely what it takes to end the pushing of such things. When the “masks” came off in one place – as in Florida – it became inevitable that they would come off everywhere else. Well, mostly; there are still some canker sores of psychological sickness yet to be salved.
But – overall – the pushing of drugs is as over as the wearing of bell bottom cords and wide-collared shirts.
People are done with it.
Now, to be done with the pushing of electric vehicles.
Kick them to the curb, as you would a box of “masks” and firmly say No – without the thanks – to anyone who tries to push one on you. The more of us who are steadfast in our “hesitancy” to have anything to do with electric vehicles, the sooner they’ll be relegated to the same status as the used “masks” you used to see littering the parking lots, thrown away by people who’d finally had enough.
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Thank God for Eric Peters. The Thomas Paine of our time.
By 2032 these tyrants should be lamppost ornaments. I’ll still be driving my diesel.
Saw a 1985 300D Wagon in great condition on autotrader in ATL. Giuy wanted $13K for it, sorry.
There is a far,far better chance that you will see the inside of a FEMA camp than you will ever see these Elites punished.
Indeed, they deserve and very much need kicking, repeated, severe, steel toed kicking.