No one is being forced. Like I said, it isn't going to happen in your lifetime. There is nowhere near the support needed to attempt such a thing. I doubt it ever will be forced. They are using propaganda to convince people that they want to buy them.
I wouldn’t say never, and I’d also say that “forced” doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll write a law that explicitly requires everyone to own an EV. I can imagine a country, if under the control of bat **** crazy Democrats long enough, that either makes emissions standards so tough it’s impossible to make a ICE engine that complies, or just bans them outright. In my lifetime? Idunno. Depends how long I got left. Realistically, at most 20 years. They keep talking about zero emissions by 2030. So yeah, that would be in my lifetime.
What is forced? Is that only with a gun in your face or is it also when they incentivize/penalize, manufacturers, energy providers, and consumers to take away the choices? Everything government does is by force and TPTB are using that force to take away my choices now and in the future.
I never would have thought there’d be enough support for men competing in women sports, but here we are. I never would have thought that our government would make companies fire people for not taking an unproven vaccine. But here we are.
Why does it work? I believe because the dumbmasses have been indoctrinated and propagandized by education.
If manufacturers do not limit my choice they will see force. That is not a stretch. What would happen if you and I opened a a factory and started building cars that do not meet CAFE standards? When the force negotiations ended it would look like Waco.
That’s exactly right. But not just by education. Surprisingly, boomers can fall for this progressive **** too. Maybe it’s years of watching ABC nightly news before they ended the fairness doctrine in journalism. So there after the nightly news is a trojan horse for belief.
You said it’s right now. cafe standards are going to severely limit what can be made by 2025. Today you can buy what you want if you can find it due to scarcity. I just bought a vehicle that gets 19mpg overall. Because I can.
Limiting choices through government action is force. Consider force being a continuum where the extreme end is gun-to-your-head-and-death-if-you-don’t-comply. Shaping the possible decisions based on the limited options available for choosing is forcing people to choose only options TPTB find acceptable. I forget who coined the nudge-shoove-shoot concept but we’re definitely in the nudge phase of the process.
Boomers perfected progressivism. Their parents and grandparents started it.
Exactly. nobody is "forced" to pay taxes. But do you really have a alternative? Sounds forced to me.
That would be for new cars. You'd still have a bunch of used cars to choose from to get you through your final days.
I cannot buy a new station wagon for any price in the US. (Might be able to import one.) They were a very popular vehicle and one might assume the public moved on and lost interest in them, but the force of CAFE standards is what doomed them. It is already taken choices, it is right now…
CAFE standards are what made SUVs the popular things they are today. Used to be SUVs were considered trucks. Trucks had higher CAFE limits. Ta-Da! Buy a Tahoe instead.
Don't be so confident about that. It starts small in a few states then goes nationwide.
www.thetruthaboutcars.com
EXACTLY…
