Okay, I am not sure that irony is actually the best word here, but this does have the funny ironic feel about it. The vote to mandate electric vehicles was delayed because of an electrical outage. Go figure. Will that stop them from moving forward with the vote? Of course not, but it should provide some needed clarity to the situation. Electric vehicles are not ready to be our main source for automotive travel. That reality is quickly becoming more and more obvious as time goes on and is becoming more and more the conventional wisdom. But since when did liberal ideals pushed into real-life policies ever have to make any real-world practical sense?
On the same topic, Buick dealerships shrank from 1870 dealers at the beginning of 2023, down to 1000 today. The reason was a mandate from corporate that every dealership wanting to remain in business needed to commit a minimum of $300-400K to prepare for the company direction of going completely electric by 2030. So nearly half of the Buick dealerships decided to allow themselves to be bought out and close up shop rather than commit to a future direction of selling EV.
Now GM is scrambling around trying to figure out how to move forward with little over half their Buick locations left. Seems like the push from the car manufactures (pushed by politicians) is not going over well with the actual people responsible to the public (the dealerships). Dealerships have their hand on the pulse of the people in a way that these corporate leadership obviously does not understand (or does not want to understand).
We really need to put a lid on all of this green technology nonsense. When the time comes for the public to move to electric vehicles, the public will tell us. Are there people who want to buy and drive electric? Sure. I have no problem with that. But trying to force everyone else to follow that lead over politics is simply bad business and quite frankly bad policy right now.
My doctor bought a Tesla a while back and was telling me about it during my checkup. He asked if I would ever consider buying one. I told him -
"Look doc, I realize that we all have to die someday, but I just don't want mine to be screaming and clawing at the inside of my car's windows as I fucking burn to death."
The look on his face was beyond priceless.
I saw where almost half the GM dealers are leaving because of the company EV policy. And Ford is facing something similar. People still don't want EV's.
Though the Cybertruck intrigues me.
At some point EV's become 100% subsidized by the federal government and the auto makers will be giving the fucking things away.
Just another example of how every idea that comes from the modern left is a profoundly fucking stoopid idea that must be propped up with OUR money.