Well that was a well thought out, reasoned statement Sean Omalley.
First you direct quoted me accurately.
Then you say I said ‘secret hidden agenda’. I did not say secret.
There are a huge differences between conspiracy theories and hidden agendas.
A conspiracy as its name says requires collusion among all of the major parties involved. Such as the once predominate Seven Sisters Oil companies doing everything foul to keep any others from sitting at their table.
Hidden agenda is like General Motors offering to municipalities that they could run their light-rail, and trolly car systems more cheaply and efficiently IF they were instead given the licenses and allowed to buy their rolling stocks and tracks systems. Their agenda was actually as well proven was to run these into the ground, broken, with poor service and replace them all with their own made rubber wheeled, ICE transit busses. GM being; as they began and evolved, was just being GM. Get Big, stay Big, and buy out all possible, and eat up all competition.
So you speak from the stand point of BIG, top down controlling.
I speak as is appropriate from the stand point of the individual DIYing their life solutions.
What can I make from the once-new; or craft from scratch myself.
Heck of a lot better capability from taking a once was expense purpose designed and built agricultural tractor versus one of those old Jeep or mini-car conversions into a kind’ sorta tractor done in the 1940’s and 1950’s.
So as an end user there is a heck of a lot of practicality and usability in small full framed load carrying small pickup trucks.
Use a minimum of a 2000cc to 2700cc inline ICE engine, with a true gear type 4 or 5 speed transmission and you are there. Simple. Repairable.
Go back and actually watch to the end that YouTubers full presentation and he postulates a manufacture could by-pass step-aside like Tesla did, the majority of the Top-Down restrictions and mandates by going full EV on a small pickup platform.
Bill Schiller’s 1990’s EV conversion pickup he sought out and bought only done now 21st century.
That big flat area cargo bed the same as the Tesla’s virtually full floor battery bank.
Now here is the real trickle down to us common folks reality. The US fleet of roads mobile vehicles can really only be new replaces at a rate of of between 8-11% annually. It’s in the money and cost of that money able to be committed to a continual replacement.
So for us common folks what does 7-10-15 years later trickle down has to be still useable, repairable. Have the parts and tools available to do repairs. Have the information available to how the factory designed and programmed its systems. And here Tesla’s business model sucks big time.
You made the example about the new Chevrolet Silverado four cylinder full sized trucks. I watched a video of proud GM engine engineers showing what they had made. I watch RV trailer tow guys reviews on the (when new) capabilities of these in real world conditions versus the recent and current V-6, V-8 gasoline and deisel trucks in comparison. Did well.
Now that 7-10-15 later still usability? If it follows too many US vehicle manufactures previous turbo-boosted wonders . . . you’ll be using the larger simpler engine vehicle platforms. The once was new Wonder engine and transmission systems clapped-out, stresses worn beyond use. Too expensive to restore. The cheapest to use by far is the system that just runs and runs and runs NOT needing restoring!!
So HERE is the agenda I referred to . . .
The Vehicle manufactures do not and never have wanted us to be driving their previously made vehicles out to 10, 15, 20 years. Past once a 3-5 years they’d losing too many sales. Have to idle their factories. Now that has with actual real vehicle sub-system improvements moved out to 7-10 years.
The various Governments regulatory agencies do not want us keeping vehicles on the road past 10 years. They want us to be using the more newest vehicles with the newest emissions and safety standards.
I could go on and on for pages with the 1980’s, 1990’s changing standards mandated to force the manufactures to get the sub-system better and better. One example serves: spark-plugs. Once needed to change out annually just as a matter of course to keep out of mis-firing. Then a 50,000 mile mandate was made. First higher energy capability ignition systems. Then better plugs in platinum tipped. Why? The standard had then changed to 80,000 manufacturers responsibility. And now onto Iridium tipped. True 100K capable.
I’ll shorten. None of those previous change mandates was to eliminate the private ownership of personal vehicles.
The new evolved 21st century agendas are.
Have us all living in rack-'em; stack-'em; squeeze together clusters and Eco-Villages. Where public transit can be made to work.
True Rural living you need personal owned operated and maintained vehicles. Period.
Henry Fords Model T proved that. Andrea Citrons common Rural folks vehicles proved that. The early LandRovers & Jeeps sold and used in Africa proved that. Then the Toyota’s reproved in Africa and outland Australia. Even the later 1980 and 1990’s Suzuki’s sold and used there proved that.
And this is why the credit trading system sucks big time. And always has. It allows the bigger hungrier, aggressive fish to eat up and displace all of rest. Turns the majority into just a commodity to feed and serve that scrambled to the Top-Tier.
Commodities trading is a fixed game. Made even HillaryC. too nervous to play long term she said. She learned well. Do not serve the games fixers. Become one.
Steve Unruh
Of course for me there is thin line between smart and just cheap and lazy.
