Climate alarmists give the game away by targeting…Teslas?

Identifying car brands can be difficult at times. It wasn't so bad when I was growing up in the 1970s in small town Texas – you had Dodges, Fords, Chevrolets and the occasional Lincoln, Chrysler and Cadillac, and not much else.

I'll never forget when a local CPA bought a brown Toyota – it looked like something from another planet in our town. And don't even ask me about the time the local millionaire drove through town in his new Rolls Royce – talk about a scandal.

But now things are different. The streets of every city on the planet are now occupied by a wide variety of car brands made by dozens of car manufacturers, and it can be a real challenge to differentiate one brand from another, with few exceptions.

One of those exceptions, of course, is Tesla. I mean, who right now doesn't immediately recognize a Tesla when he or she or xe or xey sees one? It seems that Tesla must be the most easily recognized brand in the Western world, especially if you're a climate alarmist who spends every waking moment shaking with the brainwashed hysteria that the world is about to burn in hell of fire caused by a 1.5-. degree of temperature increase.

Apparently, however, the climate hysteria is not as bright as we might have thought. The BBC reports This week, a group of protesters recently deflated a man's car tires and left a leaflet on his windshield berating him for destroying the planet with his gas-guzzling car.

“WARNING: Your Gas Guzzler Kills” begins the pamphlet, before notifying the owner that “We have deflated one or more of your tires.”

But it gets better. “We did this because driving your SUV has huge consequences,” the rant continues, “SUVs are the second largest cause of increased CO2 emissions over the past decade, more than the car industry. “aviation”.

The thing goes on and on, but you get the nauseating point: You're a horrible person for driving a gas-burning ICE car.

The only problem is that the car in question is, of course, a Tesla. It's not an SUV at all, because Tesla doesn't make a model that can accurately be called a real SUV, although it does make a model that pretends to be, like Joe Biden pretends to be president for about 2 years. hours most days.

The BBC quotes the owner, a man who lives in Clifton, Bristol, England, as saying “something funny about it” but feeling “slightly violated”. Certainly, and who could blame him?

But he then appeared to become more agitated while speaking to the reporter as he added: “It's ironic because I was trying to do the right thing by buying an electric car. It's ridiculous and inconvenient. I understand why [climate activism] it's happening, but I don't see the point of it.” Well, yeah, who would see the point of that, other than brainwashed lunatics who think they're doing something important by splashing soup cans on works priceless art masters or blocking traffic by sticking to the pavement?

Hilariously, the group behind the joke is called: What Else? – tire fire extinguishers. And get this, they claim to have targeted Tesla, which their brochure identifies as a “gas guzzler,” on purpose. A spokesman for the group says: “Hybrid and electric cars are fair game. We can't electrify our way out of the climate crisis – there aren't enough rare earth metals to replace everyone's car and mining these metals causes suffering”.

you know what This person makes a coherent point: there aren't enough rare earth metals to replace everyone's car. What he/she/xe/xey doesn't say is that replacing your ICE car with an EV isn't the real goal here. The real goal is to force all but the super-rich upper classes to give up their personal cars entirely.

Almost as an afterthought, the spokesman adds: “Furthermore, the danger to other road users still remains.” oh ok Thanks for clearing that up, we were all wondering that.

Oh my god. You just can't make these people up.

David Blackmon is a Texas-based energy writer and consultant. He spent 40 years in the oil and gas business, where he specialized in public policy and communications.

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