I am going to post this in its entirety, so those of my readers who are not members of X/Twitter can partake of the eloquence. You will know that these are my sentiments, exactly, as I have written here many times. It was inspired by a post by Elon Musk about how the government of Norway has incentivized their population to almost entirely switch from gas cars to electric ones. He, of course has a big stake in that transition, with his ownership and promotion of Tesla.

They sell it like a sunrise. But it’s just a new cage with quieter chains.

“As goes Norway” They say that like it’s prophecy. But it’s programming. The rollout city for post-human obedience. 97 percent isn’t innovation. It’s submission.

A statistic carved into the future by hands that never touch the wheel. They call combustion primitive But forget it was freedom.

Range. Noise. Control. Now they want you plugged in. Trackable. Updateable. Revokable. Steam was quaint. Gas was power. But this… this is capture in the form of progress.

The engine didn’t die. They just coded it out of reach. And soon, you’ll pay subscription fees To go nowhere in silence. It’s not the car they’re replacing. It’s the driver.

I say again, as I have said many times. My gas car is my Liberty. You will have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands. Below is my own comment on that post.

So the entire world, with all of its hundreds of countries, thousands of languages and dialects, and millions of points of view and religions are supposed to follow the lead of a tiny, homogeneous, wealthy northern country in abandoning the cheapest, most plentiful energy source in favor of heavy, costly, short-lived battery electric vehicles? Somehow I don’t think so.

Here’s Elon’s original post, for you to read all the comments. Many replies agree with me.