I used to want an electric car, hell if 2020 hadn't happened I might have sold my second car and bought one. Really glad I didn't. I've turned and run from electric cars. I don't want one at all even though I totally expect them to get forced. I'm even getting sick of literally everything that still runs on gas having a turbo now. Right now want to get my hands on something with a V8 or maybe a Porsche at the bottom of it's depreciation. New cars are too concerned with sucking all the fun out of cars.
I used to want one because in many ways they're much simpler than a gasoline car. But between the inevitable forced obsolescence that comes with replacing batteries and Our Betters wanting to have some way of controlling where and when we can drive, I think my current plan will be to try to keep my current car and truck running as long as I can.
My main fear in that regard is that gasoline eventually becomes a specialty item in a way I don't see happening to diesel.
Diesel is used too much commercially to be phased out. No battery is going power a cargo ship and the US government has intentionally regulated nuclear into the ground to the point that there are no US nuclear powered commercial cargo ships even though one was successfully used from 1962-1972 after Eisenhower commissioned the project.
The NS Savannah wasn't even a cargo ship, technically - it was classified as a merchant ship, and was basically a cargo/cruise ship combination.
One big propaganda barge, basically.
Still, the engineering they put into the thing was hella cool. But it basically failed commercially - weirdly enough, some nations have issues with nuclear power plants rocking into their port cities. Wonder why...
See what I liked from that era while I'm sure a lot was not viable or propaganda, it was still effort to do cool things. Nuclear cargo ship, turbine car, going to the moon. Now they'd rather launder money for effort into corruption pockets while screaming about race.
I used to want an electric car, hell if 2020 hadn't happened I might have sold my second car and bought one. Really glad I didn't. I've turned and run from electric cars. I don't want one at all even though I totally expect them to get forced. I'm even getting sick of literally everything that still runs on gas having a turbo now. Right now want to get my hands on something with a V8 or maybe a Porsche at the bottom of it's depreciation. New cars are too concerned with sucking all the fun out of cars.
I used to want one because in many ways they're much simpler than a gasoline car. But between the inevitable forced obsolescence that comes with replacing batteries and Our Betters wanting to have some way of controlling where and when we can drive, I think my current plan will be to try to keep my current car and truck running as long as I can.
My main fear in that regard is that gasoline eventually becomes a specialty item in a way I don't see happening to diesel.
Diesel is used too much commercially to be phased out. No battery is going power a cargo ship and the US government has intentionally regulated nuclear into the ground to the point that there are no US nuclear powered commercial cargo ships even though one was successfully used from 1962-1972 after Eisenhower commissioned the project.
The NS Savannah wasn't even a cargo ship, technically - it was classified as a merchant ship, and was basically a cargo/cruise ship combination.
One big propaganda barge, basically.
Still, the engineering they put into the thing was hella cool. But it basically failed commercially - weirdly enough, some nations have issues with nuclear power plants rocking into their port cities. Wonder why...
See what I liked from that era while I'm sure a lot was not viable or propaganda, it was still effort to do cool things. Nuclear cargo ship, turbine car, going to the moon. Now they'd rather launder money for effort into corruption pockets while screaming about race.