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Take A Hike: Driving Will Be Verboten

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Posted By: RockyTCB, 5/29/2025 9:20:26 AM

Anyone who thought electric-vehicle mandates and policies designed to force Americans out of their cars and into public transit or onto early 18th century-technology (bicycles) are intended to protect the environment is either naive or an accomplice in tyranny. The evidence has been helpfully provided by a Massachusetts senator who wants to limit how far people can travel. We have heard well past the point of being fed up that the world has to sharply cut greenhouse gas emissions or we’ll scorch or planet. Carbon dioxide produced by man, the fanatics assure us, is an existential threat.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: mobyclik 5/29/2025 10:09:54 AM (No. 1956906)
FTA: ''Naturally, elected officials, their high-ranking staff members, and senior government functionaries won’t have to abide by any limits.'' And as the old saying goes: ''You can take that to the bank.'' Come down here to central Florida and ride your bikes around for an hour or two, you pompous know-it-alls from the stinking communist northeast.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 5/29/2025 10:17:51 AM (No. 1956909)
A sure sign that one lives in a dictatorship: Travel restrictions. There are places where one cannot leave the city they reside in without government approval.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: whyyeseyec 5/29/2025 10:30:21 AM (No. 1956915)
Or, we can stand up for ourselves and take power away from the govt.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: hershey 5/29/2025 10:33:23 AM (No. 1956917)
You really want to curb greenhouse gasses, stitch liberals mouths shut...
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Reply 5 - Posted by: chagrined 5/29/2025 10:43:32 AM (No. 1956921)
The Global Warming/Climate Change/Climate Disruption malarkey has always been about power and control of the masses. Been sayin' it since I studied meteorology 35 years ago. There was a bunch of wild assertions then as there are now. Nothing concrete, or even close to concrete. There was never a shortage of witless wonders who would fall for the latest line of BS from the likes of Hansen, Gore and Mann even up to/and after CO2 being labeled a pollutant by the EPA in 2009. One might have thought the jig was up after the East Anglia e-mails or the ludicrous EPA CO2 declaration. But the easily manipulated amongst us just doubled down on the idiocy of the day, and would rather fight to the death to prove they were right. . .which they weren't, aren't and never will be. So now after all the evidence supporting nothing out of the ordinary is going on with the atmosphere, or the biosphere for good measure, we have this utter dolt politician pushing EXACTLY what they've been wanting all along. Control. The unmitigated gall to tell others what they must do under the guise of saving the planet. And there are still people who fall for this garbage. SMDH
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Samsquanch 5/29/2025 10:56:00 AM (No. 1956925)
I remember when I was little asking my dad why Moscow had such wide streets but you only saw a few cars (Mercedes limos) on them. He said that was the joy of living in a tyrannical, communist society.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: bighambone 5/29/2025 10:58:59 AM (No. 1956927)
That will work great in the Western States when it is -20 degrees below zero with long daily miles to drive.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: dbdiva 5/29/2025 11:20:38 AM (No. 1956944)
I see Amish buggies driving past my house occasionally. I wonder if they'll stop for hitchhikers....
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Reply 9 - Posted by: anniebc 5/29/2025 12:38:40 PM (No. 1956984)
But bicycle travel works so well in China. What other regressive ideas do the left have? Of course, bicycles for us and private cars, planes, and trains for them.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Strike3 5/29/2025 2:00:17 PM (No. 1957028)
I would drive all the way to Massachusetts just to throw a water balloon at this clown and flip him off.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: DVC 5/29/2025 2:47:57 PM (No. 1957060)
How about we travel him out to a lamp post and toss a rope over the top and solve his problems?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: cor-vet 5/29/2025 3:05:41 PM (No. 1957066)
All Mass. Senators, their staffs and their office workers need to show me by example, because I'm a deplorable, uneducated, Southern dolt, that doesn't understand what my smarter than I, more educated than I, obviously better than I elites, have no clue what they're talking about. I'll wait.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: JimBob 5/29/2025 7:57:25 PM (No. 1957156)
Ah yes, another Watermelon Weenie. Environmentalist Weenie Green on the Outside, Communist Totalitarian Red on the Inside.
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