In The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson put words to the sentiments of many colonials of the time when he described British government actions in America as a “long train of abuses.”
Today, that train is run by the feds in DC, various state and local governments, and the politically connected media and special interests who seem to roll over our rights at an accelerating rate.
But another train seems to have appeared. It’s a train composed of numerous recent reports about consumers and auto-makers rejecting the highly-hyped, climate-canard-connected, government subsidized “electric vehicle” push of recent years.
From Ford dropping the price of its F-150 “Lightning” in July because so many were sitting on sales lots (where the trucks have to be fed power to keep the batteries viable), to the corporation later announcing a long-term delay in what had been a planned $12 billion investment in making more EVs, to GM dropping its plan to start another EV pickup plant, and Toyota sounding alarms and dropping big EV plans, early and consistent critics of this anti-market, anti-freedom, move by the feds to steer automakers towards expensive, unreliable, heavy, fire-prone EVs and away from fulfilling consumer demand for efficient, low-priced, well-built vehicles that run on inexpensive, plentiful, portable, storable gas and Diesel have been proven right.
Despite billions in Biden Administration subsidies to push auto-makers into changing their plants to only make EVs, despite federal government mandates on emissions that will push automakers to have to eliminate internal combustion engines from their lines by 2030, automobile manufacturers and, recently, 4,000 car dealership owners, are sounding the bells of protest.
It has been a long battle, between the forces of government fascism – the mixing of political and corporate power that sees the polis subsidize and coerce formerly private businesses – and the market, where consumers are at the wheel, are free to show their preferences in a competitive system where politicians don’t tilt the scales, and sellers cater to them, not politicians.
And now Volkswagen -- a year after its CEO announced it couldn’t sustain viability of its EV battery manufacturing in Europe – is hemorrhaging money so much due to its jump into the EV cesspool, that it has drastically cut EV production.
Peter Johnson notes for Eletrek that, as crazy as it sounds, European consumer demand has halved:
“Arno Antilitz, Volkswagen’s CFO, explained on a media call last month that EV orders are down to 150,000 in Europe. That’s 50% lower than the 300,000 from last year.”
Yes, shocking – pun intended.
Who could have predicted that consumers would find EVs untenable, expensive, and dangerous?
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Eric Peters, of EricPetersAutosDotCom, that’s who. For years, this automobile expert and reporter has dissected the canards behind the “climate change” argument, exposed the unworkability of electric vehicles, and drawn attention to how labor-intensive and environmentally hazardous the EV battery manufacturing process is.
And he has been joined by good company.
Popular auto-fixer and video commentator Scotty Kilmer has let loose his take on the government push, as translated through Ford, onto dealers who do not want the EVs because they aren’t liked by consumers.
"Ford has had to cave in on their demands to their dealerships to put in so many EV chargers and train people because they were sued by their own Ford dealerships. They were trying to force them to do things that were not in their original contract with Ford, I guess, well whatever.”
He adds:
"It shows the dealerships don't want to deal with electric cars, they've already told Ford 'Please, don't send us any more of these electric cars until we have the ones we have'. Because they're sitting around and nobody's buying them."
But, despite the corporate participants trying to work with each other in response to NON-DEMAND from us, will the politicians change their tack, or sail all of us over the edge of the EV-mandate ocean?
Perhaps it will take us speaking up much, much more.
We’ve had help from people like Kilmer and Peters, and had guidance from Jefferson and the American Revolutionaries.
Can we be the great-great-great grandsons and granddaughters of liberty and stand up for ourselves, and the principle of freedom?
This is an important time to decide.
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