I will keep repairing my 20 year old Astro van. I will never buy another car. Parts are easy to find.
I will keep repairing my 20 year old Astro van. I will never buy another car. Parts are easy to find.
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Given the option between a proven, reliable, inexpensive ICE vehicle and an expensive, short range, limited vehicle with a 10-15 year life, people will almost always choose the proven reliable solution.
How do you force people to stop buying affordable ICE vehicles? You create a shortage of ICE vehicles. In turn creating a shortage on parts for older vehicles. This allows older vehicles to fall further into disrepair. Inflation forces more vehicle maintenance to become deferred, forcing more into disrepair, removing them from the roads. As an example, it took a month to order an engine air filter for a 2020 vehicle with a common engine.
The combination is in turn forcing both old vehicles and especially newer vehicles to become price competitive with electric vehicles. Now apply "climate change 'crisis'", combined with anticipated hostile legislation to ICE, suddenly the EV "solution" becomes more attractive to the bulk of society who have no clue EVs provide roughly a 120 mile distance and die within 15 years; requiring a battery pack of $15,000-$25,0000 to keep them on the road. And, the secondary market fo EVs is not only terrible, but you are required to pay extortion to the manufacturer for the right to drive it when you buy it second hand. And the secondary market will provide vehicles with ranges of roughly 80 miles, unless you spring for a new battery pack. Assuming it's not outright dead or exploded, burning the vehicle with it. In either case, forcing more pressure on a new vehicle while reducing availability.
In other words, the car shortage is all about creating an actual long market shortage, including already owned vehicles, so they ultimate take complete control of travel (limiting it), forcing people to buy EV's, which in turn will die every 10-15 years. Thereby ensuring much higher volumes of new vehicle purchases.
This also has the effect of removing the bottom 20% of the workforce from the workforce (can't afford any vehicle), or force people into controlled public transportation, assuming it's available. Public transportation is largely only available in high density urban areas. This in turn drives more people into high density urban areas where populations are much easier to monitor and control.
Given the option between a proven, reliable, inexpensive ICE vehicle and an expensive, short range, limited vehicle with a 10-15 year life, people will almost always choose the proven reliable solution.
How do you force people to stop buying affordable ICE vehicles? You create a shortage of ICE vehicles. In turn creating a shortage on parts for older vehicles. This allows older vehicles to fall further into disrepair. Inflation forces more vehicle maintenance to become deferred, forcing more into disrepair, removing them from the roads. As an example, it took a month to order an engine air filter for a 2020 vehicle with a common engine.
The combination is in turn forcing both old vehicles and especially newer vehicles to become price competitive with electric vehicles. Now apply "climate change 'crisis'", combined with anticipated hostile legislation to ICE, suddenly the EV "solution" becomes more attractive to the bulk of society who have no clue EVs provide roughly a 120 mile distance and die within 15 years; requiring a battery pack of $15,000-$25,0000 to keep them on the road. And, the secondary market fo EVs is not only terrible, but you are required to pay extortion to the manufacturer for the right to drive it when you buy it second hand. And the secondary market will provide vehicles with ranges of roughly 80 miles, unless you spring for a new battery pack. Assuming it's not outright dead or exploded, burning the vehicle with it. In either case, forcing more pressure on a new vehicle while reducing availability.
In other words, the car shortage is all about creating an actual long market shortage, including already owned vehicles, so they ultimate take complete control of travel (limiting it), forcing people to buy EV's, which in turn will die every 10-15 years. Thereby ensuring much higher volumes of new vehicle purchases.
This also has the effect of removing the bottom 20% of the workforce from the workforce (can't afford any vehicle), or force people into controlled public transportation, assuming it's available. Public transportation is largely only available in high density urban areas. This in turn drives more people into high density urban areas where populations are much easier to monitor and control.
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