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Anti-Tesla Pickup Truck Drivers Take Over a Supercharger Station -- Again (electrek.co)
An anonymous reader quotes Electrek:
In what is quickly becoming a problem for some Tesla drivers, pickup truck drivers have again taken over a Supercharger station and yelled profanities in what appears to be an act of protest against Tesla. Earlier this month, we reported on a strange situation at Tesla's Hickory Supercharger in North Carolina where three large pickup trucks blocked access to the station and reportedly chanted "F*** Tesla"....
Now it looks like it's becoming a trend since another Reddit user spotted pickup truck drivers taking over another Tesla Supercharger. They reportedly were also yelling profanities to Tesla owners coming to charge at the Supercharger station.
Electrek also cites one Tesla owner's reports of being "coal rolled" -- intentionally targetted with extra black exhaust fumes from specially-modified engines.
Now it looks like it's becoming a trend since another Reddit user spotted pickup truck drivers taking over another Tesla Supercharger. They reportedly were also yelling profanities to Tesla owners coming to charge at the Supercharger station.
Electrek also cites one Tesla owner's reports of being "coal rolled" -- intentionally targetted with extra black exhaust fumes from specially-modified engines.
Truckers drive trucks, including Teslaâ(TM)s. These rednecks are in coal/oil, which pumps money in piss poor towns. They have picked a losing fight.
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If it isn't a tow away zone then somebody screwed up.
We will replace you. And all your coal rolling desperation does is tell us you know it too.
Take our your cell phone, take pictures of the trucks (and license plates if you can). Then call the police and report that trucks are blocking a public entrance. When the cops finally show up, show them the pictures and file a report.
How hard is that?
Or I guess you could just pull out your guns and have a showdown. Seriously are people this stupid?
You will never own a Tesla, you have never even been in the same room as a gun, and you would never confront anyone over the age of ten years. These facts are immediately obvious to every single person who reads your post.
Those that publicly claim to be a gun owner are seldom capable of effectively using a firearm. Beware of the person with a single firearm ... and keeps it a secret.
First they ignore Tesla
Then they laugh at Tesla
Then they fight Tesla <--
Then Tesla wins
I suspect that it's a ploy to dissuade buying electric by presenting a "Electric car owners will be bullied" sentiment. I have no doubt it's orchestrated as I am sure the drivers or the utes have better things to do really.
The inevitable EV revolution is being attacked on many fronts.
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I have a Tesla and own several guns. If this was happening to me, I would construe it as a threat upon my being and I wouldn't hesitate to put the assailant(s) to death.
This is why a mental health assessment should be required for both gun ownership and a drivers license. You should have neither.
but they're probably angry at technocrat elites. If they're blue collar types odds are good they listen to right wing media which is often on the warpath against silicon valley and the like. Plus if they're blue collar then odds are good they're not doing so hot economically since blue collar types got hammered in the last recession and never really recovered.
Still, I could be totally wrong. Like the author if TFA I'd love to just ask them why.
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Shooting someone because they inconvenienced you is pretty much always considered illegal. There is no threat to life, so no reason to shoot. Yes, someone who wants to do what the GP stated he did is either mentally unstable or clearly acting with criminal intent.
Will you eat out my ass?
They aren't protesting anything. They are just being jackasses. I think the pickups should be crushed into little cubes. It would not particularly upset me if the owners were inside during the operation.
"I think that electric vehicles pose a very real threat to the jobs and the future of many rural Americans" = You living in a ridiculously limited paradigm, making excuses for being unable to adapt to reality and/or progress, essentially.
If rural America can't figure out what to do outside of a coal mine, I guess we need a war for them to die in. #Solved.
I doubt it, at least until the uber-Troll-in-Chief goes off to prison and we stop ALLOWING the Republican faggots to gaslight the rest of America with their anti-science, anti-education, anti-law, anti-professional regime.
So you're half right, you just don't know how to point out the elephant in the room like it requires to be acknowledged and dealt with.
I don't see any reason to be so personal or vengeful on the attacks. Tesla runs on electricity, which can be made with many things, including coal. That is not the choice Tesla owners get to make. Tesla owners get to make the choice of not having to decide what form of energy to use, and at over 100 MPGe, they are using a lot less of whatever it is.
If you get in a Tesla, and put your foot on the accelerator, you have to like what happens next, it is pretty awesome. And if you are somehow tied to ICE engines financially, you have to worry about what happens next. There are few and declining reasons to cling to a gasoline car for the vast majority of the population.
Now if it's Tesla in particular they loathe, take the trucks out of the EV charge slots, which is inevitably going to result in a lot of fines and impound fees, and fund an EV car company that makes a cheaper car. I do not think Tesla's place in the automotive universe is certain. They make the best product, but they're up against an industry that knows how to make "just good enough" into a weapon, and they're still at a price point which isn't attainable to the masses.
Treating them as bizarre space aliens instead of fellow Americans who should have their needs cared for just like everyone else is the problem. You're dividing us into US and THEM. Vladimir Putin would be proud. He has to pay people to incite rhetoric like this; you're doing it for free.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
by limiting myself to only one vehicle, I'm being a whole lot more green than the twits who keep a stable of them.
Is this a demonstration of the intellectual capacity of a pickup truck owner? It's how much and what you drive, not how many you own that affects the environment. I'm pretty sure your pickup puts out more smog than a sedan, other things being equal.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
The right-wing in the USA operates under a lot of myths that they tell themselves about the other side. One thing they believe is that if it ever "came down to it" their side would obviously win in any kind of civil war that they like to fantasize about.
It's because they operate under the belief that they must be an entirely homogenous group so the other side must be as well. Since they perceive the "typical" left-winger as some kind of weak willed pansy they assume they must all be like that.
Which as an aside, a right-wing myth is in play with the gov't shutdown as well, which is the right-wing pushes the narrative that almost all gov't employees are democrats that are leaching off their tax dollars when the reality is the gov't employees are split much in the same proportions as the rest of the country, about 30% republican, about 30% democrat, and the rest independents.
You also see it in rhetoric about who receives gov't social welfare benefits. They love to present the myth of them all being inner city and minority when the reality is that there are more rural whites receiving social welfare benefits than city minorities.
But back to my original point, one myth they love is that republicans surely have all the guns and make up all the military and law enforcement when the reality is that an estimated 45% of guns are in the hands of democrats and that while it's true republicans have a majority in military and law enforcement, it's only a little more than half.
In spite of what the NRA likes to push there are loads of gun owners and enthusiasts who see no issue with some common sense regulation around guns, and that's not just democrat gun owners but republicans as well.
Don't bother. I know his type. They think milk comes out of a milk carton, cereal comes out of a cereal box, and that it's possible to live in 70 degree comfort year round at 45 degrees north with solar panels and AA batteries.