@Cakers3 wrote:
@JamandBread wrote:
Within 10 years, the major car and truck manufacturers have plans to phase out the production of fuel combustion engines by 90%. There are articles and quotes directly from the manufacturers stating this.
You can't stop progress. Consumers our age have about 10-20 years left to drive. The car companies don't care what we think. They are catering to the new generation who are buying electric and living and thinking green. Complaining about the inevitable isn't going to stop progress. It's all about money and the demographic buying your product. And we aint it.
Many of us won't be around to see it, but the transition is in progress.
@JamandBread Plans to decrease fuel combustion engines started back in the 1970's but were dismissed. That is a fact.
All this new found hand-wringing about gas powered vehicles and climate change and plastic and the ocean and contaminated water - I could go on and on. All those who were demanding solutions decades ago were told to sit down and shut up you tree-hugging hippies.
Now all of a sudden we have this angst as though the damage to our Earth happened just 10 years ago.
It would almost be laughable if it wasn't so serious.
"Better late than never" isn't going to cut it, either.
I'm watching this with sadness because the solutions we "hippies" worked so hard to bring into focus were dismissed. Because money talks and most people didn't give a flying flower.
Oil was king and don't anyone DARE to draft alternative car engines.
People didn't want to give up plastic;consumed food packaged in wasteful containers at fast-food places; tsk'ed tsk'ed at such disasters as Love Canal among others then went outside to water their precious landscaping.
We have had decades of people not giving a rat's patooey and now all of a sudden the "newly awakened environment authorities" are going to tell those of us who have known all along the damage that was lying in wait under the tip of the iceberg.
Everyone wants a seat at the popular table; forgetting the price they were paying all along to get there.
SMH
Like everything, we sit around arguing until the sky falls. Then we take action. You would think we would learn. But no.
We have no choice but to make the switch now. Between the auto maufacturers switching to electric and new laws which will outlaw further sales of combustion engines in cars, the die is cast. it's going to happen and we can only hope it's not too little, too late.
Hand wringing, denying it's happening, being over 55 and pretending the auto companies still care about your opinion- it's not going to stop it.
In 10 years you will not be able to buy a new vehicle with a gas combustion engine.
p.s. I have great respect for those "hippies" who stuck their neck out only to be ridiculed for their progressive thinking. Those "hippies" are today's board of directors and CEOs. They and those they mentor will see the change through.
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