A good friend once opined that 'without chain fights, motorcycle gangs are merely a fashion statement.' That said, neither he nor I begrudge the beer-bellied hog aficionados their cuttes or patches or Sunday rides in the slightest.
I agree a great many people choose vehicles based on the "fashion sense" they communicate - and I too have no issue with how people choose to order their monthly budgets. That's their business. But the government is too far in the weeds of dictating what "right looks like" and that bothers me a great deal, especially when the government is led by idiots who buy into myths about manmade climate change. For me personally, because I am at heart conservative in nature, I'd like a much more efficient means of getting to the office 21 miles away. I don't like using a large 4x4 pickup to "commute" but the ROI on any of the alternatives isn't feasible - I still need the truck to haul my fishing boat and go off road for hunting. So an EV is way out of the question and a used gas powered commuter is at least seven years to break even. I won't be employed that much longer! And that doesn't even touch on the impacts to the power grid and resulting cost of electricity we're all facing as more people choose to follow the government exhortation to "go green". We desperately need a return to rationality and market-based decisions.
Unfortunately, we are going to be stuck with this administration and its green delusions for another 2.5 years. Even if the GOP manages to take all of Congress in November, Biden will still persist via his pen-and-phone, secure in the knowledge that he can veto any legislative attempt to rein him in.
I agree a great many people choose vehicles based on the "fashion sense" they communicate - and I too have no issue with how people choose to order their monthly budgets. That's their business. But the government is too far in the weeds of dictating what "right looks like" and that bothers me a great deal, especially when the government is led by idiots who buy into myths about manmade climate change. For me personally, because I am at heart conservative in nature, I'd like a much more efficient means of getting to the office 21 miles away. I don't like using a large 4x4 pickup to "commute" but the ROI on any of the alternatives isn't feasible - I still need the truck to haul my fishing boat and go off road for hunting. So an EV is way out of the question and a used gas powered commuter is at least seven years to break even. I won't be employed that much longer! And that doesn't even touch on the impacts to the power grid and resulting cost of electricity we're all facing as more people choose to follow the government exhortation to "go green". We desperately need a return to rationality and market-based decisions.
Unfortunately, we are going to be stuck with this administration and its green delusions for another 2.5 years. Even if the GOP manages to take all of Congress in November, Biden will still persist via his pen-and-phone, secure in the knowledge that he can veto any legislative attempt to rein him in.
Well written and dead on!
Well done.
Sadly the left is aggressively adding insult to injury as they foist this drek upon the masses .
They will inevitably precipitate a response from all strata of center & right
As the poet said:
…..And by opposing end them….
They’d better have there totalitarian manacles in place or ……