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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Electric-Car Owners Shocked by California Blackouts
2019-10-12
[PJ] Everybody knows that electric cars are going to save the planet from climate change or something. Unlike regular cars, which run on gasoline and make all the polar bears cry as they sink into the sea, electric cars are powered by... um... magic? Mjölnir, the hammer of Thor? That must be how it works, or else owning an electric car would impose some sort of cost to the environment. And that can't be, or those guys wouldn't be so insufferably smug.

You know those intentional blackouts they're having in California to reduce the risk of wildfires? Well, guess what happens now?

So if you're a Californian who bought an electric car to save the environment, now you can't drive it because of the risk to the environment. If you really cared about the planet, you wouldn't go anywhere or do anything or participate in 21st-century life at all.

Whatever happened to those algae-powered cars we were supposed to have by now? Remember Obama talking about those? Imagine driving around smelling like a dirty fish tank. Smirking at all those planet-killing dummies in their outdated electric cars. That's the thing about being woke. There's always somebody woker.
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  WALK DUMMY OR buy a horse?
Posted by: ranture   2019-10-12 18:42  

#11  Poetic justice and irony.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-10-12 18:01  

#10  ^Never attribute to malice anything that can be explained by stupidity (I admit in this particular case it's a mind boggling one)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-10-12 14:17  

#9  I interpret this as a probing attack by the Gretabots. Just how much will the proles endure before they go kinetic?
Posted by: Matt   2019-10-12 14:00  

#8  Think of it as evolution in action
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2019-10-12 12:46  

#7  AU: i would contend the REAL bitch would be the electric car users having to lower themselves to an evacuation ride in a carbon-spewing vehicle.....
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2019-10-12 12:42  

#6  The real bitch is when the wild fires are raging, electrical power has been shut off, the batteries have been run down and their homes are surrounded by choking smoke and towering flames, the owners of electric cars will have to use good old foot power to get the hell outta there.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-10-12 12:16  

#5  the wa state legislators passed a bill that became effective first of this month to add $75 a year to car tabs of hybrid and all electric cars. but money can only be used for building out charging stations. so my non plug in camry gets no benefit.
in 6 years that fee is to go to general road maintenance fund but i am not betting on it.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2019-10-12 11:24  

#4   Yes Pebble beds and thorium set ups in containers.
Posted by: Clyde Dribble8052   2019-10-12 08:59  

#3  Electric cars are fine. But first, build me a few pebble bed nuclear reactors, bitches!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-10-12 05:30  

#2  The Flintstones were more woke
because they used pedal power.
Of course, Fred must have eaten a lot of hay
and made a mess of the street out the other end.
And of course, he must have produced more methane gas out the back end too after working himself up with all that exercise.
Posted by: boomerc   2019-10-12 05:23  

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Posted by: Dron66046   2019-10-12 04:35  

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