# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/101 "2024-03-13T17:24:37Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Not sure where they fuel’up the ole red Barchetta though… Crotchety Bob’s Dead Dinosaur Fueling Emporium ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/102 "2024-03-13T17:28:23Z")
Being semi-serious and not particularly cruel in the Pit, I did want to address Bob’s bitching. Because more than a hijack, it seemed like a thread-shit to me. From my POV at least, and based on comments to date, I’m almost certainly not alone, it sure seemed like you jumped into a quiescent thread, which had quite a bit of history and nuance on the discussion, WITHOUT READING any of it. Because every single point you made in your post was done better, and with a much more solid basis in fact by other posters including Sam\_Stone. And for the record, if you’re being out reasonable’d by SS on an issue touching on EV/Elon/Political points, you really, REALLY need to reconsider your life choices! So you jumped in, warm and smug in your “new” points that had been done to death, and then dropped the proverbial turd in the punchbowl with the “real car” crack. Regardless of your age, it made you look like the young “rebellious” teen who jumped into the middle of an adults conversation to scream “LOOK AT ME, I’M IMPORTANT!”. Don’t expect to be treated well when you obviously didn’t read, or at best, skimmed the thread, then jumped in with booth boots (which immediately ended up in your mouth), and THEN had the audacity to play the victim card. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/103 "2024-03-13T17:38:40Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Not sure where they fuel’up the ole red Barchetta though… I go back and forth on whether the events in the song really happened. It could just be a fantasy (dream with my uncle by the fireside). ---
**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, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/104 "2024-03-13T17:47:20Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > And that’s the trick. If you know where the charger is and just drive there your battery does not precondition. I don’t know if you can precondition the battery without putting the SC location in Google maps You can do it from the phone app from what I have read but I haven’t done it. It’s easy enough to do the navigation as you noted. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/105 "2024-03-13T17:47:24Z")
Up for a pointless diversion?? > [@Miss a car payment? Your autonomous car will repossess itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-a-car-payment-your-autonomous-car-will-repossess-itself/980552/11): > > Could be a Chevy. Could also be a [Red Barchetta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Barchetta): [[Rush-Red Barchetta (Lyrics)] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uukZgfHZIoc) ETA: the [short story](http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/19731100roadandtrack.htm) from which the Rush song originated ETA2: and a [totally cool story](http://www.bmwbmw.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=8693&hilit=red+barchetta) about the short story’s author meeting, and taking a motorcycle ride, with Rush’s legendary drummer, Neil Peart. [Because rabbit holes] ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/106 "2024-03-13T18:05:46Z")
> [@Bob\_Blaylock](#): > > That is not the behavior of anyone who thinks his own positions can stand on their own; that is the behavior of dishonest cowards who know that their position is so weak that they can only _“win”_ by cheating. Did Donald Trump write that? ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/107 "2024-03-13T18:15:26Z")
Clearly not. There’s no random capitalization. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/108 "2024-03-13T18:17:46Z")
SAD!!! RanDom CaPitAl ---
**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, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/109 "2024-03-13T18:25:32Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Because every single point you made in your post was done better, and with a much more solid basis in fact by other posters including Sam\_Stone. That’s like saying Beetlejuice three times! I can almost see the white knight approaching on his trusty steed which also happens to be a real car. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/110 "2024-03-13T18:25:59Z")
I don’t know why this rant isn’t just “Buy the car that suits your needs”? I mean, rear wheel drives suck in snow so should I start a Pit rant about how I hate Ford Mustangs? ---
**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, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/111 "2024-03-13T18:34:04Z")
Wait until there is a thread about Mustangs where people are having a rational discussion. Then wait another few months for it to die. Then unload with an unhinged and ignorant rant. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/112 "2024-03-13T18:36:40Z")
> [@Bob\_Blaylock](#): > > 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. Aside from the idiocy of suggesting that EVs aren’t real cars, it’s not true that only new EVs will be allowed to be sold in California starting in 2035. As is the case in Canada and elsewhere, the law calls for only zero-emissions vehicles to be sold, and these “include battery electric vehicles (EVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV).” ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/113 "2024-03-13T18:39:34Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > The business model has always been pull them in to buy gas and make most of the profit with giant margins on snacks and beverages anyways, so no reason not to just shift that model to charging bays as the draw. Just so. Many stations sell their gas at a loss; it’s there to lure you into the C-store, where they make their real profits selling you Mountain Dew and Snickers. Cite: my old man and his 30 years in the business. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/114 "2024-03-13T18:41:30Z")
Do I get extra pit points if it is a thread about wild horses and I hijack it with a post on the car? ---
**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, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/115 "2024-03-13T18:48:36Z")
Is it about wild horses shitting? Thread-shitting about pony cars there would be very meta. ---
**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, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/116 "2024-03-13T18:53:45Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) which use gasoline or diesel. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/117 "2024-03-13T18:54:51Z")
Whoa! This is really meta but I did an SD search for “horse shit” and it returned Bob\_Blaylock’s posts. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/118 "2024-03-13T19:01:22Z")
Yes, they do. So PHEVs are only sort-of zero-emissions vehicles. Still, they may be just the thing for people, like the OP, who worry about the availability of EV chargers. It’s possible that by the time 2025 rolls around, EV chargers will be widely enough available that is no longer a concern. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/119 "2024-03-13T20:14:46Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Yes, they do. So PHEVs are only sort-of zero-emissions vehicles. Still, they may be just the thing for people, like the OP, who worry about the availability of EV chargers But but but… Are PHEV’s “Real Cars ™” Not sure on this one. ---
**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, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-blaylock-hates-electric-vehicles-and-was-happy-to-highjack-a-thread-about-it/998798/120 "2024-03-13T20:25:09Z")
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