There is a growing and almost violent disagreement between those who own electric vehicles (EV) and those owning traditional cars which use internal combustion engines (ICE). I will not go over all the arguments pros and cons for EVs other than to say that all the cons have engineering solutions which when fully implemented will mean the extinction of ICE cars and trucks. How long this will take is hard to know for sure, but the sooner the better. This is because once green house gases are released into the environment there are no engineering solutions, only biological ones, one of which is extinction.
Governments all over the world know this and are doing what they can to incentivize this transition. Due to the absolute hatred of anything that might impinge on their freedom to destroy the planet, the ICE crowd are not going for it. Incentives are never going to work.
What might work are disincentives to owning an ICE. Here are just a few of my great ideas. All new ICE cars will have the following as standard equipment:
*Radios that only receive NPR stations.
*Available colors will be Barbie Pink, Puce, Lavender, Peach, and Chartreuse.
*The new car smell will be replaced by patchouli oil.
*Dashboards will either have a bud vase or a Nancy Palosi bobble head doll.
*Seat belts will be lacy, rainbow colored, and the car will not start till its buckled.
*Breathalyzer interlocks.
*The voice of the built-in navigation device will have Latino accent.
The problem with these disincentives is that they only apply to new cars. I am afraid that something more may be needed to discourage you from driving an existing ICE car. Like:
*When the police pull over an ICE car they will be required to ask for license, proof of insurance and vaccination.
*Pump your own gas stations will be outlawed and all gas station attendants will be either homeless, undocumented and/or transsexual.
*Emission testing will be mandatory in every state and all testing centers will be located in high crime areas. If your car fails to pass, it will be impounded on site, and you will be required to ride the bus home.
*Traffic fines will double if you are pulled over in an ICE car while wearing a MAGA or cowboy hat.
*Gasoline additives will now include aroma therapy oils.
I know that none of these great ideas will ever be enacted and if they were they would never be enforced. Hell, they can’t seem to elect a speaker of the house or stabilize the funding of the government. My only hope is that this blog goes vial and the dumb shits believe it is one of the many Bill Gates plots to destroy America. I know that if this happens it will only make them angrier about EV’s, but at least we can have a few more laughs about how stupid these idiots are.