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Several states in the United States at this point are starting to ban the sale of new vehicles sometime in the future that are petrol or diesel powered. Other countries have stated the intent to do the same. 

This is going to be terrible for us as a people overall and I am highly opposed to it as somebody who has no intention of ever buying an electric car.

An electric car probably makes more sense if you have nuclear or other reasonably clean energy powering it and you're within a city or other place with sufficient infrastructure. The size of the United States alone prevents this from being a reality considering there are huge stretches of the country where the population density is under 10 people per square mile. 

But more than anything I am opposed to vehicles I cannot work on myself on some degree. Yes I outsource some work to mechanics that requires highly specialized and expensive equipment such as tire machines and hydraulic presses but regular maintenance I mostly do myself. Fluid changes, plugs, distributors, steering components, belts and engine accessories are all things that I can easily get to on a fuel vehicle. 

On an electric vehicle this is simply not the case. You have high voltage AC electricity that can kill you. Nothing is documented. No parts are available. And when your drivetrain runs out you have to basically throw the entire car away which is long been a problem with hybrids as well even if on some level this has improved a teeny bit. 

No amount of concessions would ever get me into an electric vehicle; at the very least with a diesel vehicle I can produce my own biodiesel or other fuel, hell in a madmax situation I could literally cut open transmissions and oil pans and thin the gunk out with other oils and an old Mercedes or Volkswagen or other diesel vehicle would probably take it without problems; I know from experience being in college one of my buddies fueled his on filtered machine shop cutting oil, unmarked barrels of transformer oil, gear oil and waste oil that we managed to get for free. Sure it produced nasty clouds of purple smoke that you definitely didn't want to breathe in but it ran fine especially if you put diesel in it on a later date. But an electric car? Better hope a tow truck can put it on and take you somewhere where you can charge it up or if not you're going to be stranded possibly in the wilderness. 

Bottom line, this is an attack on the poor and those who do not want to be forced to alter our lifestyles adversely in the name of some nebulous idea that we are somehow going to save the environment by doing this and not by, I dunno, planning cities better to reduce traffic, because idling is the majority of needless pollution from vehicles, improving/reactivating railways to reduce reliance on trucks, eliminating 1970s technology from vehicles that actually causes us to waste fuel (catalysts actually prevent an engine from running at peak performance and efficiency because they require high exhaust gas temperatures to work), and other such things that are simply too hard or that don't fit someone's personal agenda that somehow me driving a truck or SUV in a town of 600 people where I actually use it everyday to transport goods, am somehow more responsible for contributing to the problem and not these rich elites being flown in private jets. 

Bottom line don't buy electric cars if you value your right to repair and the rights of your fellow citizens and if you are a voter vote these morons out before they take away your rights. Ditto with this self-driving car nonsense which they are probably going to force down our throats as well assuming that computers are always 100% right is how Tesla has killed people.