47-59 The Future of Our Trucks

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As America changes before our eyes, it will profoundly affect our trucking hobby. Our current Presidential Administration has committed to the Green New Deal. Manufacturers like Ford and GM have pledged to end all gas-powered vehicle production in just over 8 years. Some states such as California are banning all gasoline-powered vehicle sales. The upshot is, that truck you've invested years of time and maybe tens of thousands of dollars in could become virtually worthless.

So what will you do if this transpires? Sell out, hoping to get a dime on the dollar? Horde gas like a Mad Max Road Warrior? Hope and pray that SEMA is able to convince legislatures to allow us to keep our trucks, and hope you can find gasoline somewhere in a 100-mile radius? Yank out that beautiful new turbocharged LS motor in which you've invested thousands, and install an all-electric drive train? Or perhaps the few remaining gasoline-powered vehicles will become sought-after and extremely valuable?

My opinion of EVs is that they are false ecology. Electricity still must be generated somewhere, and whether coal, nuclear, wind, solar, or hydroelectric, it all has its environmental consequences. EVs just transfer the pollution somewhere else (see photo below).

Sorry Moderators if this appears political, but in fact it is a very real and imminent threat facing each one of us on this forum. We can't ignore it much longer.