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2023-02-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-
By Forcing Americans Into Electric Vehicles, Leftists Ensure Road Trips' Demise
[Federalist] Deep within a southeastern cove of Brooklyn lies Dead Horse Bay. Vintage debris washes up on its shores thanks to a decomposing underwater landfill. Old Clorox bottles, tires, men’s work boots, and shards of broken glass toss back and forth on the tide, continually churned together with old horse bones.

The bones come from an 1850s-era factory that used the carcasses of dead horses to make glue, fertilizer, and other materials near the bay. That such a factory was necessary — and that thousands of old horse bones line a small bay in Brooklyn — point to the fact that horses were a way of life in New York City before cars replaced them. Nearly 200,000 horses lived on the small island of Manhattan at the end of the 19th century, meaning piles of dead horse carcasses and giant mounds of manure were a daily occurrence for city residents at that time.

Note that the average horse produces around 30 pounds of manure a day. If you do some back-of-the-envelope math, that means New Yorkers literally put up with dumping more than 1 million tons of excrement on their streets every year to preserve their freedom of mobility.

That’s what climate activists and their allies in the corporate press don’t seem to get. As leftists push Americans to make the cumbersome and extremely expensive switch to electric vehicles, they forget that Americans already can go wherever they want, whenever they want, thanks to gas-powered cars. Why would they give that up and pay more in the process?
Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-15 01:54|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 The "Demise" of the American family is the actual goal.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-15 02:19||   2023-02-15 02:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Vacations and Trips are White Privilege and are something they will do their best to destroy.

"This radio station was named Kowalski, in honor of the last American hero to whom speed means freedom of the soul. The question is not when's he gonna stop, but who is gonna stop him."
Posted by mossomo 2023-02-15 13:00||   2023-02-15 13:00|| Front Page Top

#3 I personally will pass on the Urkel "vacation."
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-15 13:02||   2023-02-15 13:02|| Front Page Top

#4 As for road trips, I'll be going on some no matter what the gummint wants.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-15 13:05||   2023-02-15 13:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Reduce population mobility and increase ability to control
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom  2023-02-15 14:43||   2023-02-15 14:43|| Front Page Top

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