When they invented CVT transmissions.
“When is this thing gonna shift?”
Why drive your car when you can on a seat smeared with excrement and smell the homeless progressive sitting - or laying - or vomiting - next to you?
Public transportation. Only for the hoi polloi.
Not for uber leader bimbos - such as Pelosi and Occasional Cortex.
Hopefully, we’ll have a very special guillotine for those two following CW-II.
Their goal (GOP and DNC) is to control and tax
and destroy freedom by passing laws
that do not apply to THEM.
Why one would think that the Leftists don’t believe in global warming or pollution caused by congestion...
The same year pregnancy was deemed to be a 'health issue' and treated like a disease.
It is all about control.
That’s it.
They cannot directly control your movements in a car for the most part, but they sure can control it on public transportation.
They like to dress it up in environmental fluff, but it is all about steely-eyed control of people.
they want the people out of the suburbs and back in to the cities where they can control them more easily.
If you live in NYC (Manhattan) what do you need a car for? This assumes that you never leave a walkable radius from thier mass transit.
Driving is under assault because the population of the US got too large to sustain the wonderful life styles us older folk grew up with in the 1950s and 1960s.
In Russia, even if the traffic is completely jammed for the common driver, there is always a special lane reserved for the elite. This is one elite perk that did not disappear with the Soviet Union.
This freedom-killing notion is surely being taught in public skools. I know of a few teenagers that have reached driving age and have no interest in getting a license much less a car.
I can’t understand it. I couldn’t wait to drive. I can still feel the excitment I had the first few times my parents let me borrow their car and go off to the mall or work on my own.
I guess the skools are doing their bit to stomp that desire out of the kids.
When leftists decided that personal freedom was not a foundational American principle, but rather just a peculiar obsession of evil conservatives.
Auto markets are already adjusting. The market for smaller ‘crossovers’ is booming. Same length but roomier than subcompact cars, higher seating position and ground clearance for declining road conditions, AWD and safety features. From cheap to high-performance luxury.
All part and parcel of Agenda 21 - now Agenda 32?? Or something .... more bike lanes, fewer car lanes, squeeze people into smaller housing in bigger groupings, make it so people have to use buses, keep them in a tight circle of work, home and shopping.
Lots of info out there, here’s one:
“Bicycle paths are being built everywhere , downtowns are closed to traffic completely, streets are narrowed to make driving more inconvenient, parking lots are eliminated, parking garages charge exorbitant fees, and high-rises are built without any parking spaces, all in an effort to discourage Americans to own a car and eventually to force them into public transportation” .....
“I am familiar with the proletariat masses having no cars during my years of living under a communist regime. We stayed close to home, within a 40 mile radius by bus or train, or as far as we could bike, or our feet could carry us. But the ruling elite had chauffeurs, elegant cars, and planes at their disposal.
Progressives are telling us or forcing us to tighten our carbon foot print belts, to use less water, less air conditioning, less electricity, to eat less meat, drive tin can Smart Cars, and build tiny apartments, while they live in mega mansions by the sea, sail in huge yachts, ride in limos, jet around the world to resorts and climate change conferences, and own many expensive cars running on fossil fuels”....
https://canadafreepress.com/article/agenda-21-2030-and-sustainable-development
When Al Gore said that the invention of the internal combustion engine was the worst thing man ever did.
On the political plane, the elites think “mass transit” has not gone far enough to move people into living in high density urban human-bee hives. The hive mentality had not expanded enough. More people MUST be moved into it.
On a deeper plane, maybe, according to Metallicman, there is one race of “extraterrestials” that many human governments are actually familiar with and cooperating with, which operates in a manner humans would see as a hive metality and is said to have not individual souls but a single “master soul”. Metallicman cliams the U.S. deep state is working with those extraterrestials. I make no claims of my own about the subjwect, only reporting from the articles of Metallicman. Go judge for yourself.
Forcing the use of public transportation is a key ingredient of then forcing all the wrong-minded people to go to re-education camps.
Perfectly serviceable left hand turn lanes have been eliminated for no discernible reason, necessitating drivers to drive past the street they want to turn left onto, for many blocks, and then execute a U turn to to the opposite direction so they can turn right. What a pain, right?
And then there are the useless bike lanes that no one seems to use. A perfectly good and vital traffic lane was eliminated to make room for these stupid bike lanes.
The streets have many potholes, waves in the asphalt, ridges that cause anything in the car to jump if you exceed 5 mph going over them, etc., making them unpleasant to drive; often you can't even drive the speed limit lest you want to damage your car. Yesterday I drove a long stretch of the Belt Parkway at night, with NO street lights functioning at all. Most of NYC's streets have the lane markings worn off, not being replaced, making it nearly impossible for you to know what lane you're in. Plenty of people give up and just drift their enormous SUV right in front of your little car.
There are numerous construction sites, particularly on the Van Wyck expressway where you rarely, even on fine weather days, see ANYONE working. So the inconvenience and squeezed lanes persist for years, obstructing the flow of traffic. Doesn't anyone check to see if these people are actually working?
The latest slap in the face to drivers is the painting of the right hand lanes on major thoroughfares completely red; those are now for buses only. You know how congested streets are when a lane is temporarily taken out of circulation by construction posts while they're doing some construction on it? Two lanes must carry the traffic of three? How would you like that as a PERMANENT condition now? Bumper to bumper is what ensues.
Then, we've had "alternate parking days" for years, wherein you are not allowed to park on given sides of the street on given days during given hours. For example, we have no parking allowed on Thursday during the hours of X to Y, and Friday during the hours of W to Z. Parking there during those hours = big fat cash cow ticket. So it's a scramble and a major pain to find parking on the "right" side of the street on those days. My neighbor came out of the building twice this week to find me sitting in my car, waiting for someone to pull out and vacate a space. Took more than 30 minutes the first night, 20 minutes the second night. You just bought groceries, you are tired, you just want to go into your home, put away the groceries and relax. NOT IN NYC! You are forced, against your will, to circle the block 5 times and/or sit in your car and wait for someone to pull out. Then, you pounce like a panther on the now vacant spot before someone else comes along. This is not in Manhattan, this is in Queens, one of the "outer boroughs". Doesn't matter. I told my neighbor it's like living like a sewer rat and I didn't want to put up with this any more.
This is why I live in the country. Screw big cities. They’re usually dem crapholes in the first place.
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