I don’t know what the legal implications are for quoting a public forum but Bridie Schmidt and Giles Parkinson have been big supporters of the EV and renewable energy movements with the RenewEconomy and Driven websites.
Indeed. I’d assume they’re within their legal rights to lift it. And yes, it’s something that supports those tribal narratives.
Thing is, I didn’t buy a Tesla because I’m on the environmentalist bandwagon.
While I’m certain her contributions to tribal narratives are well meaning and heartfelt, and not necessarily the sort of anti-humanism that seems to be getting normalised these days (eat the bug, or go vegan, live in the pod, don’t have children, don’t raise the children you do have yourself - leave it to (us), punish others children by making them terrified of the future every single day, punish them again as they grow up by locking up all the good real estate and flooding the job market with cheaper overseas workers instead of forcing businesses to train our own etc.). Those are the values that I see among many environmentalists. I couldn’t possibly share common cause with them, as a matter of principle.
I bought the car because I’m the sort of aspie who looks at logistics of situations and thinks “that many people can’t fit on so few trains” or “this country can’t keep buying oil from our enemies overseas, someday a couple of tankers will stop for some reason or another, a storm, a war, a trade embargo, a Chinese military exercise near the Solomons, a few poorly timed mechanical issues, and the country will be on its knees within a few weeks as literally everything here is dependent on those few ships”.
Plus EVs are fun. And cool. And they steer topics of annoying Uber rider chatter from infuriating smalltalk about the weather over to stuff that’s actually engaging. At least among those riders who insist on talking to their driver. And they’re cheap to operate. And very little goes wrong with them. And servicing my old car every 7 weeks/10,000km was really annoying.
Personally I think electrification is important for stability and peace of mind. I love that the car is entirely agnostic about its energy source. And you aren’t risking starving the third world by using valuable farmland and farm output to produce biofuels (looking at you, Manildra!). The fact you’re not breathing in fumes, not messing with the rest of the atmosphere (leave no trace), and so on, are just bonuses.
But yeah, umm, that went on a bit too long. A heads-up would have been nice.
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