Look at the bull shirt going on in Cali outlawing mowers and weed eaters and such, and politician's push for "going all electric" for transportation in not very many years, I dread to think what they are gonna do with us that would rather drive old iron.
Do they think electricity will be free?
I mean even now, when summer is at its hottest and we're getting curtailment, brownouts, and such as it is now, and telling us to reduce usage and do certain things after the sun goes down and the outside temp cools "naturally" and electric use goes down, when we are all driving oversized golf carts which are plugged in as we sleep, don't they think curtailments will be an even bigger issue than now?
We won't be buying gas but what will happen to our electric bill? IT won't go DOWN!
And places generating electricity will be using more energy to provide electric current.... There is no free lunch.
My fear is also that they tried cash for clunkers once... The next one will be farther reaching and less "optional".
And like they did to eliminate 3 wheel ATVs they banned companies from making them and then banned them from even making parts specifically needed for a 3 wheeler too. I can see a day when we can't get distributor caps and rotors or spark plugs or maybe suspension parts
Is that why nothing uses 14 or 15" tires any more.... When those are unavailable any more well now we have yard ornaments because of that..... I don't like what I'm seeing here. So much for "freedom". Or even "freedom" within a given set of boundaries.....
I am a fleet mechanic for the state .... And every year I am seeing more crap on newer vehicles that I don't want to have to work on. Which drives my desire for older things even more, every day. I have to work til I'm 67 (if I live that long) before I can retire. I'm 54 now. Too old to look for other work and hope to have any sense of a retirement income. So I'm stuck. And tired of powers that be trying to brainwash us into their way of thinking we really want what they are pushing.
Do they think electricity will be free?
I mean even now, when summer is at its hottest and we're getting curtailment, brownouts, and such as it is now, and telling us to reduce usage and do certain things after the sun goes down and the outside temp cools "naturally" and electric use goes down, when we are all driving oversized golf carts which are plugged in as we sleep, don't they think curtailments will be an even bigger issue than now?
We won't be buying gas but what will happen to our electric bill? IT won't go DOWN!
And places generating electricity will be using more energy to provide electric current.... There is no free lunch.
My fear is also that they tried cash for clunkers once... The next one will be farther reaching and less "optional".
And like they did to eliminate 3 wheel ATVs they banned companies from making them and then banned them from even making parts specifically needed for a 3 wheeler too. I can see a day when we can't get distributor caps and rotors or spark plugs or maybe suspension parts
Is that why nothing uses 14 or 15" tires any more.... When those are unavailable any more well now we have yard ornaments because of that..... I don't like what I'm seeing here. So much for "freedom". Or even "freedom" within a given set of boundaries.....
I am a fleet mechanic for the state .... And every year I am seeing more crap on newer vehicles that I don't want to have to work on. Which drives my desire for older things even more, every day. I have to work til I'm 67 (if I live that long) before I can retire. I'm 54 now. Too old to look for other work and hope to have any sense of a retirement income. So I'm stuck. And tired of powers that be trying to brainwash us into their way of thinking we really want what they are pushing.
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