# Bob\_Blaylock hates Electric Vehicles and was happy to highjack a thread about it **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 13, 2024, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798 "2024-03-13T00:22:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/21 "2024-03-13T12:04:43Z")
C’mon people, just stop replying to and tagging him and he’ll go away. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/22 "2024-03-13T12:55:37Z")
**Moderating** : You bumped a thread to rant about EVs. Next time do what I did for you and just start a new thread. This was a hijack, I think that should be pretty obvious to you. Don’t hijack threads. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/23 "2024-03-13T13:02:07Z")
If it doesn’t work for your use case, so be it. If you don’t like EVs, that’s ok. You’re still being a massive dickhead with your “real car” rhetoric and by making ignorant claims like that it takes several hours to charge. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Blaylock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_blaylock/32/3235_2.png) [@Bob\_Blaylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Blaylock)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/24 "2024-03-13T13:02:08Z")
  It was a legitimate answer to the question posed in the OP of that other thread.  I stated that I have no plans to buy an EV, and I think I explained very well, why.   Others didn’t like my opinion, and attacked me for it.   This isn’t the first time that I have experienced this behavior, on this forum.   You seem to have a very big problem with anyone who expresses legitimate opinions, with which you disagree.  The sort of censorship and anti-intellectualism practiced on this forum is wildly at odds with the purported basis of this forum. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/25 "2024-03-13T13:02:42Z")
Ok, now you’re way off into la la land ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/26 "2024-03-13T13:10:06Z")
Is someone forcing the OP to buy an EV? ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/27 "2024-03-13T13:10:26Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > now you’re way off into la la land A terrible movie. I wouldn’t wish that fate on anyone. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/28 "2024-03-13T13:11:03Z")
> [@Bob\_Blaylock](#): > > Others didn’t like my opinion, and attacked me for it. Who attacked you? I’m one that responded, but mainly about your use of “real car”. Was that an attack? ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/29 "2024-03-13T13:19:52Z")
> [@Bob\_Blaylock](#): > > This isn’t the first time that I have experienced this behavior, on this forum. This is because you’re a fuckin’ moron. The moment you stop being a moron, the people here will stop “attacking” you. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/30 "2024-03-13T13:24:39Z")
> [@Bob\_Blaylock](#): > > The sort of censorship Yes, you’ve been silenced, all right. > ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Blaylock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_blaylock/32/3235_2.png) [@Bob\_Blaylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Blaylock)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/31 "2024-03-13T13:25:28Z")
  Here in California, they passed a law that if allowed to stand, will ban the sale of all new real cars in the state starting in 2035.   If EVs were really so good, there would be no reason to pass a law against real cars.  If EVs were really better than real cars, or even nearly as good, people would buy them voluntarily, without the need to force them by law.   No law was ever needed to force people to switch to cars instead of horses.  The point was reached where cars were more practical than horses, so people started buying cars instead of horses. ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/32 "2024-03-13T13:25:44Z")
I drive an electric car as a taxi. It’s almost charged now and say “range 334 km”. That would be cirka 200 miles and should be enough for an 80 miles round trip. The only thing necessary is better infrastructure. Here in Copenhagen there are lots of chargers on the street, so privately owned EVs can easily charge. Many big workplaces have chargers too. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/33 "2024-03-13T13:32:31Z")
> [@Bob\_Blaylock](#): > > If EVs were really so good, there would be no reason to pass a law against real cars. If EVs were really better than real cars, or even nearly as good, people would buy them voluntarily, without the need to force them by law. Economic incentives are used all the time to get people and corporations to do things that are to the betterment of society and the earth. Now, can you point to the place on this doll that the bad EV touched you? ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/34 "2024-03-13T13:40:32Z")
> [@Bob\_Blaylock](#): > > I stated that I have no plans to buy an EV, and I think I explained very well, why. I have no plans to buy a pickup truck. They are fuel inefficient, I don’t transport cargo, and they don’t handle well compared to a car. Therefore, pickup trucks should be banned and no one should buy them. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/35 "2024-03-13T13:41:15Z")
> [@FinsToTheLeft](#): > > > [@Bob\_Blaylock](#): > > > > I stated that I have no plans to buy an EV, and I think I explained very well, why. > > I have no plans to buy a pickup truck. They are fuel inefficient, I don’t transport cargo, and they don’t handle well compared to a car. Therefore, pickup trucks should be banned and no one should buy them… They’re not real. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/36 "2024-03-13T13:41:54Z")
Yeah, the old “lead pipes were good enough for our ancestors, why would they ‘force’ us to change from ‘real’ pipes” argument, eh? Things cost more, teenagers are less respectful, there are kids on my lawn. With a dose of claimed martyrdom and sealioning to boot. It’s the gift that I wish would stop giving ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/37 "2024-03-13T13:42:48Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > They’re not real. Like chem trails and birds? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/38 "2024-03-13T13:45:32Z")
This rant sounded familiar, > [@Please stop using singular they for posters who have an established gender](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-using-singular-they-for-posters-who-have-an-established-gender/995306/310): > > How about calling them what they really are?: Men > > Men are not, and never will be women, no matter what they believe, no matter what they pretend, no matter what they have done to themselves to try to become pseudo-women. That’s just hard, immutable science. > > And it is most certainly not _“oppression”_ to decline to recognize anyone as what they clearly are not. > > Why should real women have any need for a _“cis…”_ prefix, to distinguish them from fake women? > [@Please stop using singular they for posters who have an established gender](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-using-singular-they-for-posters-who-have-an-established-gender/995306/311): > > Why should that be a problem? As a matter of undeniable, immutable scientific fact, a _“trans woman”_ is a man, and not, in any rational sense, any kind of woman. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Blaylock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_blaylock/32/3235_2.png) [@Bob\_Blaylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Blaylock)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/39 "2024-03-13T13:47:39Z")
  I have never expressed an opinion that EVs should be banned.  For those who find an EV to meet their needs, better than a real car, I am all in favor of allowing them to make that choice.   What I most object to is that those who most support EVs want to deny me the choice to buy and own a real car that much better serves my needs.  The law is already in place, here in California, that will ban the sale of all new real cars, starting in 2035; and there are efforts to pass similar laws in other states.   As I stated before, if the point is ever reached that EVs are as practical as real cars, there will be no purpose for a law to force people out of real cars, and into EVs; people will choose to buy them of their own free choice, when doing so becomes a reasonable choice. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Blaylock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_blaylock/32/3235_2.png) [@Bob\_Blaylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Blaylock)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/40 "2024-03-13T13:51:21Z")
  Again, I had a perfectly valid opinion, for which I was attacked, and punished.  If the opposing opinion was as valid as mine, then thee would have been no reason to treat me so badly for having expressed my opinion.  As it stands, I am now prohibited on this forum from saying anything about the subject of that opinion, which is _prima facie_ proof that those responsible for imposing this on me know damn well that the are full of solid digestive waste.   No valid opinion ever needs to cheat by suppressing the expression of opposing opinions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798.md?page=3)