Get Used To Being Called "Peasant"

 John F. DiLeo notes that Those EV Shortcomins Aren't Shortcomings At All. What he means by "shortcomings" are the impractical nature of electric vehicles, powered as the are by huge, expensive and environmentally destructive batteries, for doing the things normal Americans do. I recently saw an advertisement for an electric Jeep Wrangler that showed it out into the wilderness. No mention of just how they were going to recharge to get home again. So why isn't this a shortcoming?

Stay home. Stay safe. Stay still. Stay where we can watch you.

The conclusion is inescapable: In the final analysis, the EV pushers don’t see any gaps or contradictions. All the needs you have that EVs simply don’t meet, can’t meet, will never meet – well, these aren’t really needs at all.

You’re wrong to want to gather in groups of thousands, or tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands. All those EV shortcomings aren’t really shortcomings at all. Freedom of assembly, as described in the obsolete First Amendment, is dangerous, don’t you see, from the perspective of your betters.

I believe that the ultimate goal is to get us to all buy an EV, and 10 years later, no cars at all. The real goal is to keep you close to home, just like most people lived prior to the invention of the bicycle in the late 19th century. Thus 15-minute walking cities.  Travel will be for the kleptocratic elites. You and me? Get used to being called "peasant."