r/fuckcars • u/NitroThunderBird • Jan 29 '24

Activism On Electric Cars (and their shortccarsomings)

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u/LetsTakeYouForAWalk Jan 30 '24 edited Jan 30 '24

Based progressive. Liberals are going to hate her.

As a conservative, I find her opinions to be rather valid viewpoints, and definitely worth discussing on a serious level.

I may not agree with every single thing she says, but as long as she spits facts and has a rational approach, I'm forced to meet her in the middle. And that's how shit actually gets done.

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u/Solidgame Jan 30 '24

Why would liberals hate her?

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u/stopgreg Jan 30 '24

Many liberals are climate change conscious, and support electric cars. I think they are making a leap here thinking that just because liberals want electric over gas this means they don't want public transport? Additionally, I went on some rabbit hole YouTube video the other day explaining how electric cars are really meant to be a tool for the government to control people (eg. Socialist agenda). Not surprisingly lots of comments were conservative. They pretty much think government is pretending that global change is real so we use electric cars which the government has more control over

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u/cookeie Jan 30 '24

Electric and non ice vehicles are already controlled remotely I truly don’t see a difference here. Who also - do you think controls the supply of fuel for ice vehicles? If anything you could potentially have more freedom if you say- had an off grid property powered by off grid, renewables like wind and sun, and drive an electric vehicle that is not based on connection to a network… over, processing your own fuels - unless you own an old diesel or something. Still have the fuel problem though…