Revi wrote:"I have always liked the car with the bicycle wheels as well." Adam B
It was a little ridiculous, I'll admit.
Not ridiculous. Quaint. Quirky. Offbeat.
Revi wrote: I still drive around in a small electric car.
I drive around in a bigger one.
Revi wrote: It's hard to do something different in this culture.
EV's certainly aren't that.
Revi wrote:We are all driving around in these gigantic cars, even though we know what's going to happen. We do what our culture tells us to.
Some of us maybe. Seems like complying with what your "culture" tells you is also a personal choice. My culture never told me to ride motorcycles. Build a log cabin with an ax. Never told me to be the first in my town with a pluggable hybrid. Never told me to hitchhike across the country to see what there was to see, to hang out in Atigun pass all night on June solstice just to be amazed by the sun never going down. Did your culture tell you to go to far away lands and try and help people? Sure...culture sort of lays down this overall framework, but any American should reserve the right to go explore and adventure and try out anything they'd like.
Revi wrote:
There are people in this town signing up for gigantic trucks that they don't need every day.
No different than Texas. And who are you and I, EV drivers, to say what they "need"? Sometimes the need is psychological, right? Big truck makes me big man! Big truck means I can, one day, maybe, after I buy it, tow some big boat down to Bar Harbor and sail up and down the coast. After I buy the boat of course. But between now, and then, it makes me feel all special in side, me and my big truck. Sounds a bit silly to me, but I am familiar with the attitude.
Revi wrote: They wouldn't spend money on a lot of other things, but they spend money on trucks. It was silly of me to think that I was going to change the thinking around here.
Think of it as being wise before the times were ready for you. Forward thinking isn't silly, it is just thinking that the world hasn't quite caught up to yet. In the meantime, you keep EVing around and wait for the rest of the world and "culture" to catch up!
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