Essay by Eric Worrall
Sydney radio station 2GB has reported a hilarious request from an Electric Vehicle owners group for neighbours to ration their use of electricity, so their EVs can charge.
I’m guessing the EV owners invested in fast chargers, only to discover the local grid is already maxed out, leading to a shortage of spare electricity for their expensive virtue signalling props.
From the text it doesn’t look like anyone other than EV owners got invited to the meeting which produced this communique. Perhaps they see themselves as the green moral executive of their street.
I leave it to readers to suggest an appropriate response to such a letter. Please ration your use of swearwords.
I’m curious, how do EV owners *without* off-street parking charge EVs?
Drop an extension cord from the 15th floor?
Not my neighbors, so I shall not concern myself. (If they were, I would simply paint a green swastika where they park their EVs.)
Come to think of it, though, they must be charging their flying saucers – last of the aliens that landed there way back in 1822, 66 years before any public electric service was installed in Australia.
These 4 EV owners have a worldly ambition: “To put an end to the global warming”
Not less !
Thanks God, being ludicrous is no more deadly since long ago.
Their continued existence is in opposition to that lofty ambition 🙂
Dear 2022 EV owner with 1822 infrastructure. Please pay to upgrade the infrastructure, and do mine too while you’re at it.
1822 lighting source was whale oil. Not enough whales these days to kill for it.
There numbers are back up these days he trick is to beat the Japanese to them 🙂
Dear EV loons, Foff!
Ration my electricity so you can charge your car? That depends on when I can use your car to drive to the shops.
This is going to be obligatory soon. Possibly with fines and jail time for violators. Everything under the disguise of “being green”. Just like CO2 is now called “toxic”.
“Dear EV owners on my street,
I’m willing to help you solve your EV dilemma.
Please find on the reverse side a map showing the nearest solar and wind “power” farms.
May I suggest you move to a neighborhood near them and plug in there.
If you choose not to move, then regarding your request that I change my life to accommodate your life choices, may I request that you take your request and blow it out your ass.
Sincerely and sanely,
Your Neighbor”
They should charge their EVs with their virtue and leave their neighbors alone. I may have used the word their too much!
Cuts both ways
Most EV owners see themselves as existing on a higher moral plane than the rest of society, whom they refer to as ‘deplorables’, and regard themselves as having a moral right to special privileges that do not apply to ‘deplorables’.
LOL.
our sacrifices will put an end to global warming.
Bwaahaaahaaa
So; I need to put off washing my clothes so you can charge your car?
Methinks not.
EV car, go f#^k yourself.
(With apologies to Snake Island, Ukraine)
I would reply with a list of costs that they need to pay, in advance, in cash, in return for me limiting my time of use.
Everything is a negotiation, especially with stupid people
If they have an EV they can afford it.
There will be no polite requests about this matter once the Australian gov’t nationalizes electricity production.
I have only one thing to say to these weirdos, take a hike. That is as civil as I can be.
I am definitely doing this in the streets around here! Fabulous trolling.
I would invite them to enjoy a nice hot cup of “Go f**k yourself”
Those convicts sure got things going pretty quickly.
And there I was thinking all they were interested in were rum rations!
Reply suggested by a friend:
Dear Neighbour,
Let me congratulate and thank you most sincerely for your virtuous and selfless sacrifice of spurning an efficient and convenient CO2-belching conveyance for a range-challenged but otherwise heavenly clean chariot in order to save the planet for us, your knuckle-dragging neanderthal neighbours. However, I am somewhat surprised that you are stooping as low as to plug your ‘virtuemobile’ into ‘our’ electricity grid which is reliant on the CO2-belching coal and gas-fired powerstations when the ‘fairy dust’ takes a nap. Naughty, naughty! I expect that someone with your obvious green credentials would have invested in sufficient solar arrays and maybe even a whirligig or two to harness the hot air emanating from the local EV owners association meetings, to provide all the ‘heavenly juice’ needed to keep your ‘pride and joy’ on the road. I trust that a staunch green warrior like you will not mind the slight inconvenience of having to ‘fill up’ your chariot exclusively with ‘fairy dust’ when it is available, i.e. during daylight hours when the sun is shining brightly and/or the brise is stiff. Let me assure you that, we, your unenlightend retrobates will line the street cheering you on as you hop on your bike (not e-bike) to pedal to and from work on days when the heavens are not on your side. After all, we are all in this together and we recognise and applaud sacrifice and true grit when we see it.
Yours Sincerely,
Eva Wankel (aka Rotary Engine)
Motto: More CO2 for a Greener Planet!
today our town where NO ONE owns an ev apparently had a charger installed
for the “tourism”benefits
thing is.. our only claim to fame is a lake thats weedfilled mozzie bothered and stinks to high heaven
oxy levels so bad they refused to release fish in so no tourism via fish carnival again this yr
couldnt make up the idiocy..if you were sane anyway
Let’s start by rationing the highest individual electricity consumption items.
1) EVs
2) Literally anything else