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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.
No better way to convince people they're wrong/dumb than being an asshole to them. These truckers should run for office
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?
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.
What exactly do the truck drivers think they’re accomplishing? And what do they think they’re protesting?
I realize these guys are likely not the brightest bulbs in the box... but seriously, they must have at least a vaguely-defined reason they are choosing to do this.
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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.
your airsoft gun will just make them angry, basement dweller. besides, you'll get a sunburn.
We have quite a few of those recharging station at the malls and railroad stations around here, 16 within 2 miles of me..... never seen them blocked by anything or anyone, ever.
Nice, have these idiots vehicles legally towed and let them enjoy their ridiculous impound fees that most communities have. Maybe they'll direct their far right rage towards the bullshit government attitude towards the privatization of impound lots. Your car was towed on a Friday? Good luck low income person being able to afford getting your car out of impound on Monday.
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Tesla owners are scared of guns. They would cry if they saw one.
They seem pretty fond of flamethrowers though.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
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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Then I have good news for you: He has neither.
Taxes are how evil liberal Muslim gay atheists steal the pretty women from us real Muricans. Fucking bastards with their "good higene" and elitist "literacy".
Trumps gonna build that wall with clean coal and make murica great like back in the fifties!
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.
In what is quickly becoming a problem for some Tesla drivers
It's happened TWICE - that's the same number of times Hillary lost her bid for President...
Let's not over-react.
Ken
I'm a suburbanite and I've been driving a hybrid Camry since 2007 and I like it.
But I don't think that insulting these truck owners (or vice versa) is going to help anybody.
I think that electric vehicles pose a very real threat to the jobs and the future of many rural Americans, who feel that their work depends on trucks, cars, vehicle repair, oil, oil equipment, coal, scrap yards, etc, etc.
That is especially the case today, when Tesla has been publicizing the success of their SELF-DRIVING electric SEMI-trucks. Tesla says that in a convoy, they are more energy efficient than trains. They even have a standing order for HUNDREDS of these new trucks from Walmart, rural America's love/hate store/employer.
For years, the only way that a rural American could escape and see the world was to either drive a truck or work on the railroad.
Its a fundamental part of American culture, and it doesn't escape these people that Tesla's development poses a tangible threat to that way of life.
There are political and economic solutions that could provide jobs AND save the environment, but its not going to happen by spewing all this filth.
Tesla owners have laser pistols.
I don't think that insulting these truck owners (or vice versa) is going to help anybody.
Fuck these fragile snowflakes who are so afraid of change that they'll go park their trucks in front of another guy's filling station. That's small ball. You don't see Tesla owners blockading filling stations.
They don't get to be assholes and expect that anyone will listen to them. The American Yahoo is something to be derided and mocked. I've met them - if you aren't like them, you're their plaything or their enemy. They'll screw you mercilessly if they have an angle, and they'll laugh to their buddies about it later.
For years, the only way that a rural American could escape and see the world was to either drive a truck or work on the railroad. Its a fundamental part of American culture, and it doesn't escape these people that Tesla's development poses a tangible threat to that way of life.
Railways will continue to exist. Trucks will continue to exist. The rednecks will still be able to hoot and holler and do doughnuts in walmart parking lots at midnight. Soon they'll be able to stagger out of their shitty bars and have their trucks drive them home without the usual DUI along the way. You don't need to be doing the driving to see the country.
I think that electric vehicles pose a very real threat to the jobs and the future of many rural Americans, who feel that their work depends on trucks, cars, vehicle repair, oil, oil equipment, coal, scrap yards, etc, etc.
The fact is, moving goods around and monkey-wrenching are not going to be fallback jobs for Joe Schmoe anymore. They only ever paid reasonably well because they're shit jobs that no one with half a brain wants. Those jobs will go away, because it's cheaper and more pleasant to deal with a self-driving vehicle than it is to deal with Joe Schmoe. Time for Joe to do something with his life.
Actually, Tesla owners have phased plasma rifles in the 40 watt range. At least the ones in the early-experience program do.
unfortunately there are far too many irresponsible gun owners out there with shit for brains
"The hands that help are better far than lips that pray." - Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)
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.