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JamesB_684
February 22, 2024 6:19 pm
The “Elite” will keep ratcheting down on the lives of the un-connected hoi polloi until the majority have nothing left to lose. Things will go non-linear chaotic and all bets are off.
I pray for our future and the lives of my grandkids.
Soon they’ll propose withholding medical treatment to anyone older than 65.
I have seen such ideas floated over the past couple years. Can’t recall where I read about them though. IIRC Canada was one of those places.
Then comes the Peace Centers (euthanasia)
Once again, Canada on the forefront with the crazy expansions of their MAID program.
Then comes … Soylent Green
New archaeological evidence shows that ancient humans ate each other surprisingly often – sometimes for compassionate reasons. The finds give us an opportunity to reassess our views on the practice
The radical Left destroys societies as their objective, in order to implement radical Left policy, and that is what they are in the process of doing to the Western world now.
yeah like the m soft programs that required new pcs and meant billions got trashed(except if you were smarter and ran Linux)
like ozone scare that trashed billions of appliances
like the present “upgrade to 4G in aus that will make millions of phones and modems u/s =new sales
and the 4G network is iffy where I live, so its looking like serious issues will follow
David Knight seems to be a master of biting sarcasm….gotta start watching….
Paul S
February 22, 2024 7:39 pm
Dang! glad I don’t live in Europe. Two of my cars are 94 years old, one is 83 and the newest is 12 years old. They all are all restored in like new condition. Those oldies will come in handy when the solar flare burns out the electronics in the 12 year oldie.
As long as this does not come to America, I should be fine. My daily driver vehicle will soon be coming up on 40 years old. Frustrating that some replacement parts are no longer made, but I do have to laugh at others having some fear of hackers and/or government controlers finding a way to connect into their vehicles’ computers. No way for that to happen to mine.
Easy. Replace the programming port with something non-standard, or remove it completely.
If like some of the newest cars, programming can be done indirectly, disconnect your computer from the antenna.
0perator
February 22, 2024 7:58 pm
There was never any sincere intention to get everyone in electric cars. They don’t want you to have any car. And the more they reveal their hand, the more it becomes clear they don’t want you to have much at all except for your tracking and surveillance phone device.
funny how the telcos can do that tracking asap but when a woman here with Iwatch n phone went missing its taken well over a WEEK for cops to get data that was needed urgently
They have to get a court order in order to force Apple to provide the data. Apple is well known for refusing requests from police, sometimes even when they have court orders.
John Hultquist
February 22, 2024 8:05 pm
Meanwhile, in the USA and maybe other places, there is a movement regarding the right-to-repair.
I do not see a mention of “age” in the material of this topic. Many personal autos have end of life episodes prior to 15 years but with care and repair they do last longer. I see work vehicles, such as tractors, that are 40 years old.
The fear of CO2 is causing mental illness in elites.
The regulation introduces the idea of a “residual vehicle”.
Once residual, the cars, vans, etc would be barred from undergoing significant repairs and would likely be scrapped, i.e. the EU intend to classify older cars whose repair costs exceed their market value and could also be classified as residual.
Your article actually seems to support the assertion that the EU is trying to ban the repair of older cars, despite the intellectual contortions of the author.
Ploughing through official EU pronouncements is a diabolical exercise. It’s almost as if they deliberately make it impossible for anyone to find out what they are planning to do. However, this seems to confirm the worst fears about older vehicles: Parliamentary question – E-003732/2023
European Parliament
The Commission’s proposal on the management of end-of-life vehicles[1] has aroused serious concern in Sweden – among people driving older cars with a low market value that are not classified as vintage vehicles, among people who repair older cars as a hobby, and among those who have an older vehicle as a real investment. There are concerns that the proposal will force those most in need, or people who make repairs themselves for environmental and financial reasons, to scrap their cars.
1.Has the Commission considered what restrictions the proposal would have on property rights and on people’s right to decide when and how to scrap their car, regardless of the market value?
2.Has the Commission looked into the impact the proposed changes could have on the sale of car parts on the hobby market and the small-scale car parts market?
3.Has the Commission considered the effects of the proposed scrapping requirement on households that own older cars with a low market value that are not classified as vintage vehicles? In particular, that would include vehicles that would cost more than their market value to have repaired commercially, but whose owners have both the intention and opportunity to repair damage themselves at a lower cost, for example by reusing used parts.
[my bold]
Proposal for a
REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
on circularity requirements for vehicle design and on management of end-of-life vehicles, amending Regulations (EU) 2018/858 and 2019/1020 and repealing Directives 2000/53/EC and 2005/64/EC
…
(11) [] It is therefore necessary to provide legally-binding precise criteria allowing to determine an end-of-life vehicle.[]
…
Article 24 establishes an obligation to deliver all end-of-life vehicles to authorised treatment facilities.
Article 25 specifies obligation of authorised treatment facilities to issue certificates of destruction for all treated end-of-life vehicles.
Article 26 lists the obligations of vehicle owners to deliver their vehicles to an authorised treatment facility when it reaches the end-of-life stage and to present the subsequent certificate of destruction for the vehicle’s deregistration.
…
[my bold]
Governmental stupidity in full color since by taking away one of the few areas that boys naturally want to spend time to develop mechanical skills and responsibilities in owning the car they got repeatedly dirtied up for and more likely keep them out of trouble.
you appear to be taking inspiration from Grease. It is good to know that even today people don’t appear to think that women should drive or be interested in knowing how to repair things.
Men invented the automatic transmission power steering and now self parking to keep women and their simps happy so if you don’t know a right handed screwdriver from a left then join them as a passenger and they can call us if they get a flat tyre.
That’s what you got out of Sunsettommy’s post? You are saying you can read Sunsettommy’s mind, and the minds of people today?
I think you are straining to find something to criticize.
I watch the Motor Trend channel that covers every kind of subject pertaining to cars, new and old, and there are female mechanics working away. There’s even one program called “Two Girls and a Garage”. You ought to see those gals tear apart and rebuild an engine!
I think I can safely say there would be an uproar if some U.S. politician proposed causing any harm to older cars, or trying to junk them. Older cars are BIG business in the United States and getting bigger.
Some “older” cars are not really old at all. Everything but the car body is brand new: The frame, the suspension, the brakes, the engine, the electronics, the interiors.
Some politicians want to take all that away over an unsubstantiated claim about CO2? I don’t think that’s going to work.
they only want people who pay a fortune to them to be allowed to have repair knowledge via “centres” like TAFE etc or industry owned .
Im an unusual female who until recently due to ill health has always done most repairs to ALL appliances and cars etc I own.
I cant afford to pay others and also to have “people” usually men try n bullshit me n rip me off at a mechanics/so called service centres/retailers
“ unusual female ” are you just self-identifying?… careful. I can’t really state that ANY of the many females I have been with, are anything BUT usual… which is what attracted me in the first place.
Considering that this is real. How will it effect such cars that come under these umbrellas?
Veteran
Vintage
Post Vintage
Classic Acceptance
Modern Classic
Cuba could run out of spare parts, if they don’t come fom the USA.
Sceptic-Al
February 22, 2024 9:33 pm
You will own nothing and you will be happy is nothing but Marxism under another description. It fits Marxism like a glove, The collective (The Banks) owns everything, and everyone else will be equal in poverty (except for the WEF elite). Social credits will decide the quality of your life but will not be better than what is built back following the demolition of the 8000-year-old social experiment that made us rich, got us to the moon and gave us democracy.
a subtle start was adobe n m soft stopping owners actually having hard copy ie disk of the programs you PAY for and paying subs for use in adobe case or a useless drive you cant use if win is on it and pc dies. pay Itunes for one song/pay ebooks for limited use/read time rather than a book or a cd you hold and own
The non elected EU Commission is the nail in everyones foot.
Bob
February 22, 2024 10:07 pm
Government needs to be brought into control sooner rather than later. They are the root of all of our problems. Start at the top of every department and keep cutting.
As it has been said, when you have nothing left to lose, you lose it.
Rod Evans
February 22, 2024 11:32 pm
The new paradigm is focused on the three Rs.
Redact, Reduce, Remove.
The Club of Rome’s modern socialists have adopted the inverse language of Orwell’s 1984. The ‘woke folk’ or controllers, to use the more descriptive title, demand, never convince, just demand everyone adopts their latest progressive retrograde policy.
Reporters of truth, are now described as conspiracy theorists. Even when the data being reported is formal policy documentation or even as in this case EU legislation, anyone reporting the actual impact of the draconian policies being enacted is accused of fear mongering or a conspiracy spreader.
Here in the UK, our once open friendly cities are increasingly being shut down. Whole areas are being ghettoised under the Orwellian policy called, Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN).
The reason for banning traffic flow is to enhance the neighbourhood and remove traffic for the benefit of the residents…apparently?. What it is actually doing is creating closed no go areas.
check out the latest eu WHO pandemic proposal treaty…its orwellian over reach of any signees own legit govt
and it looks like Albo the dud dude here will think its a good thing;-(
The speaker doesn’t quite get it right, though exactly the same thought occurred to me before I started watching.
The 1985 film was Brazil, directed by Terry Gilliam. Screenplay also by Tom Stoppard. Lead is Jonathon Pryce. Bob Hoskins. Michael Palin. Robert De Niro as Tuttle the guerilla repairman. What a cast!
Plus dark, Pythonesque humour and Gilliam’s visual brilliance.
Still a must-watch movie. Even more so today, unfortunately.
The Woke have no problem with people owning old cars they just won’t be allowed to use them.
It is the same with all Net Zero/woke policies, you will be allowed to have a gas boiler but you won’t be allowed to use it. You can have as many ICE powered vehicles as you like, but you won’t be allowed to use them
The ultimate in this woke direction is, you will have a vote, but you won’t be allowed to use it……
Remember Stalin’s famous observation.
Voters don’t count. Only those who count the votes, count…
It turns itself absolutely inside-out trying, and failing, to deny that you won’t be allowed to maintain old cars.
It all hinges on what is a residual vehicle in the proposed legislation. If you thought that a residual vehicle was one that was unable to be repaired, then the author puts you straight – a residual vehicle is one that “CAN BE considered as irreparable”.
So the legislation really does intend to prevent people from maintaining old cars. No matter how convinced you are that your car can be repaired, no matter how much work and skill and money you are prepared to put into it, if a bureaucrat thinks it might not be a good idea to repair your car then you are not allowed to repair it.
Good question. It’s tempting to think they are all in it together
Of course, that’s conspiracy theory.
But are you a conspiracy theorist if there really is a conspiracy?
In the video, following the 8:00 mark, “…focus on your state government.”
Yes, it concerns me greatly that New York will end up using such restrictions to force gasoline fueled cars out of the fleet.
carnivore
February 23, 2024 3:55 am
Hi gang! I’ve had to create a new user ID to log in here. Not happy about it but hey-ho, I’m not happy about a lot of stuff.
I’ve read ANNEX I CRITERIA FOR DETERMINATION WHETHER A USED VEHICLE IS AN END-OF-LIFE VEHICLE. I was pretty much OK with it because most of it describes vehicles that would fail an annual MoT inspection and we’re used to that. But the final criterion was this stinker:
(g) its repair requires the replacement of the engine, gearbox, shell, or chassis
assembly, resulting in the loss of the vehicle’s original identity.
Or how about this one:
A vehicle may be considered technically irreparable when … (f) its brakes and steering components are excessively worn.
I stopped at that point. I decided it had to be a troll, not a real EU document. (I read a lot of EU documents for work and they tend to be gibberish, which when you do tease one apart it turns out to be nonsense. But this is very clear. I think it’s a prank.)
smoke or vape on a plane and get arrested and have the antis screaming harm
a large crowd inhale lithium and god knows what else in confined space for some time and” no-one was harmed” uh yeah riiiight
ozspeaksup
February 23, 2024 5:20 am
well I guess I better try n find a whole car for parts for my 98 Jackaroo asap
sure wont buy a new crudcar made of plastic and unfixable. bad enough I have to get a hoist to even check the trans fluid thanks to stupid design and no dipstick
The “Elite” will keep ratcheting down on the lives of the un-connected hoi polloi until the majority have nothing left to lose. Things will go non-linear chaotic and all bets are off.
I pray for our future and the lives of my grandkids.
Soon they’ll propose withholding medical treatment to anyone older than 65.
Then comes the Peace Centers (euthanasia)
Then comes … Soylent Green
Soon they’ll propose withholding medical treatment to anyone older than 65.
I have seen such ideas floated over the past couple years. Can’t recall where I read about them though. IIRC Canada was one of those places.
Then comes the Peace Centers (euthanasia)
Once again, Canada on the forefront with the crazy expansions of their MAID program.
Then comes … Soylent Green
New Scientist: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26134783-600-is-it-time-for-a-more-subtle-view-on-the-ultimate-taboo-cannibalism/
also, solves the pension reserve shortfall, just like covid
Carousel?? One for older readers perhaps.
Renew!!!
Renew!!!
Renew!!!
You will need more than prayers in the UK. “Suella Braverman: Islamists are in charge of Britain now”.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/02/22/islamism-suella-braverman-gaza-ceasefire-lindsay-hoyle/
I agree with you.
I also feel that our future here in the west has become bleak . .
That’s because the radical Left is in control.
The radical Left destroys societies as their objective, in order to implement radical Left policy, and that is what they are in the process of doing to the Western world now.
You will own nothing, and be happy!
I get the “own nothing” part. I’m puzzled about the “be happy” part.
Mandatory hallucinogenics?
Extreme censorship and mandatory political re-education camps for anyone expressing non compliant ideas and feelings.
There is always Navalny happy silly.
more outcry over Navalny than for Julian msm wise
twisted world
Don’t forget the Puberty Blockers
Lots and Lots of puberty blockers
Then Mandatory Sexual Reassignment Surgery (AKA mandatory sterilization)
Really? That’s your biggest concern
And it ISN’T one of yours???
The idea behind the placebo effect: there is no placebo effect.
But you, esp. if French, want to please the doctor.
So you pretend to feel better.
“I’m puzzled about the “be happy” part”
You don’t have to be happy, you just have to pretend you are happy. That will keep you out of trouble with Big Brother.
I’m puzzled about the “be happy” part.
That’s because they leave out the “or else” part
A line from an old song.
“Everything you think, do and say is in the pill you took today.”
2525
Being happy will be mandatory.
So much for reuse and recycle. The just want us to reduce.
Just be thankful it’s the cars for the time being and maintain optimism-
Climate investor group seeks to shore up support after US exits (msn.com)
yeah like the m soft programs that required new pcs and meant billions got trashed(except if you were smarter and ran Linux)
like ozone scare that trashed billions of appliances
like the present “upgrade to 4G in aus that will make millions of phones and modems u/s =new sales
and the 4G network is iffy where I live, so its looking like serious issues will follow
Well they would do that now wouldn’t they?
Rivian, Lucid tumble as slowing EV demand upsets ramp-up plans (msn.com)
The Smart Money has seen the coming collapse of the Green Scam, and is getting out in time.
what a slippery slope, what is next, banning politicians after 15 years?
I see you are trying to be an optimist..
By 15 years they have just begun to fully appreciate gouging the system..
what is next, banning politicians after 15 years?
That would be an improvement.
David Knight seems to be a master of biting sarcasm….gotta start watching….
Dang! glad I don’t live in Europe. Two of my cars are 94 years old, one is 83 and the newest is 12 years old. They all are all restored in like new condition. Those oldies will come in handy when the solar flare burns out the electronics in the 12 year oldie.
As long as this does not come to America, I should be fine. My daily driver vehicle will soon be coming up on 40 years old. Frustrating that some replacement parts are no longer made, but I do have to laugh at others having some fear of hackers and/or government controlers finding a way to connect into their vehicles’ computers. No way for that to happen to mine.
Easy. Replace the programming port with something non-standard, or remove it completely.
If like some of the newest cars, programming can be done indirectly, disconnect your computer from the antenna.
There was never any sincere intention to get everyone in electric cars. They don’t want you to have any car. And the more they reveal their hand, the more it becomes clear they don’t want you to have much at all except for your tracking and surveillance phone device.
funny how the telcos can do that tracking asap but when a woman here with Iwatch n phone went missing its taken well over a WEEK for cops to get data that was needed urgently
They have to get a court order in order to force Apple to provide the data. Apple is well known for refusing requests from police, sometimes even when they have court orders.
Meanwhile, in the USA and maybe other places, there is a movement regarding the right-to-repair.
I do not see a mention of “age” in the material of this topic. Many personal autos have end of life episodes prior to 15 years but with care and repair they do last longer. I see work vehicles, such as tractors, that are 40 years old.
The fear of CO2 is causing mental illness in elites.
“The fear of CO2 is causing mental illness in elites.”
The *unwarranted* fear of CO2 is causing mental illness in elites.
There is no evidence showing that anyone should fear CO2.
There is a blizzard of alarmist climate change propaganda that distorts the truth and strikes fear in Elites and average folks alike over CO2.
Lies and distortion are driving this insanity, and leftwing politicians see it as a method to impose their authoritarian will on society.
there is a movement regarding the right-to-repair.
I think that might have started with the John Deere case of “licensing” tractors, due to the software they now have.
If such a law were to be passed, the increase in the number of shade tree mechanics will be mind blowing.
This is just another EU scare story. There is no proposed ban on repairing cars. See
https://www.jgclassics.com/en/2024/02/07/does-the-european-union-intend-to-ban-the-repair-of-old-cars/
“here is our point of view.”
Your article contains nothing of anything meaningful to counter the original story.
How often have we seen far-leftists like Izzy deny what other rational thinkers see coming.
And then it happens. !
The regulation introduces the idea of a “residual vehicle”.
Once residual, the cars, vans, etc would be barred from undergoing significant repairs and would likely be scrapped, i.e. the EU intend to classify older cars whose repair costs exceed their market value and could also be classified as residual.
Your article actually seems to support the assertion that the EU is trying to ban the repair of older cars, despite the intellectual contortions of the author.
Ploughing through official EU pronouncements is a diabolical exercise. It’s almost as if they deliberately make it impossible for anyone to find out what they are planning to do. However, this seems to confirm the worst fears about older vehicles:
Parliamentary question – E-003732/2023
European Parliament
The Commission’s proposal on the management of end-of-life vehicles[1] has aroused serious concern in Sweden – among people driving older cars with a low market value that are not classified as vintage vehicles, among people who repair older cars as a hobby, and among those who have an older vehicle as a real investment. There are concerns that the proposal will force those most in need, or people who make repairs themselves for environmental and financial reasons, to scrap their cars.
1.Has the Commission considered what restrictions the proposal would have on property rights and on people’s right to decide when and how to scrap their car, regardless of the market value?
2.Has the Commission looked into the impact the proposed changes could have on the sale of car parts on the hobby market and the small-scale car parts market?
3.Has the Commission considered the effects of the proposed scrapping requirement on households that own older cars with a low market value that are not classified as vintage vehicles? In particular, that would include vehicles that would cost more than their market value to have repaired commercially, but whose owners have both the intention and opportunity to repair damage themselves at a lower cost, for example by reusing used parts.
[my bold]
Proposal for a
REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
on circularity requirements for vehicle design and on management of end-of-life vehicles, amending Regulations (EU) 2018/858 and 2019/1020 and repealing Directives 2000/53/EC and 2005/64/EC
…
(11) [] It is therefore necessary to provide legally-binding precise criteria allowing to determine an end-of-life vehicle.[]
…
Article 24 establishes an obligation to deliver all end-of-life vehicles to authorised treatment facilities.
Article 25 specifies obligation of authorised treatment facilities to issue certificates of destruction for all treated end-of-life vehicles.
Article 26 lists the obligations of vehicle owners to deliver their vehicles to an authorised treatment facility when it reaches the end-of-life stage and to present the subsequent certificate of destruction for the vehicle’s deregistration.
…
[my bold]
Governmental stupidity in full color since by taking away one of the few areas that boys naturally want to spend time to develop mechanical skills and responsibilities in owning the car they got repeatedly dirtied up for and more likely keep them out of trouble.
you appear to be taking inspiration from Grease. It is good to know that even today people don’t appear to think that women should drive or be interested in knowing how to repair things.
What an incredibly stupid comment !
You must be dredging up your inner-most feelings.
When has “Izaak Walton” ever made a worthwhile or knowledgeable comment?
Men invented the automatic transmission power steering and now self parking to keep women and their simps happy so if you don’t know a right handed screwdriver from a left then join them as a passenger and they can call us if they get a flat tyre.
if you have to buy “self parking” then you shouldnt BE in charge of a vehicle
That’s what you got out of Sunsettommy’s post? You are saying you can read Sunsettommy’s mind, and the minds of people today?
I think you are straining to find something to criticize.
I watch the Motor Trend channel that covers every kind of subject pertaining to cars, new and old, and there are female mechanics working away. There’s even one program called “Two Girls and a Garage”. You ought to see those gals tear apart and rebuild an engine!
I think I can safely say there would be an uproar if some U.S. politician proposed causing any harm to older cars, or trying to junk them. Older cars are BIG business in the United States and getting bigger.
Some “older” cars are not really old at all. Everything but the car body is brand new: The frame, the suspension, the brakes, the engine, the electronics, the interiors.
Some politicians want to take all that away over an unsubstantiated claim about CO2? I don’t think that’s going to work.
I’m still trying to get over the shock of seeing cars that were popular when I was freshly out of college, being labeled “classics”.
actually today..they dont want anyone fixing anything regardless of xx or xy
people don’t appear to think that women should drive or be interested in knowing how to repair things.
Where did he say that women should NOT drive or repair things? Exact words, please.
they only want people who pay a fortune to them to be allowed to have repair knowledge via “centres” like TAFE etc or industry owned .
Im an unusual female who until recently due to ill health has always done most repairs to ALL appliances and cars etc I own.
I cant afford to pay others and also to have “people” usually men try n bullshit me n rip me off at a mechanics/so called service centres/retailers
“ unusual female ” are you just self-identifying?… careful. I can’t really state that ANY of the many females I have been with, are anything BUT usual… which is what attracted me in the first place.
Considering that this is real. How will it effect such cars that come under these umbrellas?
Veteran
Vintage
Post Vintage
Classic Acceptance
Modern Classic
These are all older than the suggested 15 years.
Also based on what Izaak Walton posted:
https://www.jgclassics.com/en/2024/02/07/does-the-european-union-intend-to-ban-the-repair-of-old-cars/
Cuba could run out of spare parts, if they don’t come fom the USA.
You will own nothing and you will be happy is nothing but Marxism under another description. It fits Marxism like a glove, The collective (The Banks) owns everything, and everyone else will be equal in poverty (except for the WEF elite). Social credits will decide the quality of your life but will not be better than what is built back following the demolition of the 8000-year-old social experiment that made us rich, got us to the moon and gave us democracy.
But the push-back has started.
a subtle start was adobe n m soft stopping owners actually having hard copy ie disk of the programs you PAY for and paying subs for use in adobe case or a useless drive you cant use if win is on it and pc dies. pay Itunes for one song/pay ebooks for limited use/read time rather than a book or a cd you hold and own
The non elected EU Commission is the nail in everyones foot.
Government needs to be brought into control sooner rather than later. They are the root of all of our problems. Start at the top of every department and keep cutting.
In Europe, most of the marxist idiocy seems to come from the unelected burro-crats.
Then the leftist psycho-phants in governments just do what their masters tell them to do.
As it has been said, when you have nothing left to lose, you lose it.
The new paradigm is focused on the three Rs.
Redact, Reduce, Remove.
The Club of Rome’s modern socialists have adopted the inverse language of Orwell’s 1984. The ‘woke folk’ or controllers, to use the more descriptive title, demand, never convince, just demand everyone adopts their latest progressive retrograde policy.
Reporters of truth, are now described as conspiracy theorists. Even when the data being reported is formal policy documentation or even as in this case EU legislation, anyone reporting the actual impact of the draconian policies being enacted is accused of fear mongering or a conspiracy spreader.
Here in the UK, our once open friendly cities are increasingly being shut down. Whole areas are being ghettoised under the Orwellian policy called, Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN).
The reason for banning traffic flow is to enhance the neighbourhood and remove traffic for the benefit of the residents…apparently?. What it is actually doing is creating closed no go areas.
check out the latest eu WHO pandemic proposal treaty…its orwellian over reach of any signees own legit govt
and it looks like Albo the dud dude here will think its a good thing;-(
The speaker doesn’t quite get it right, though exactly the same thought occurred to me before I started watching.
The 1985 film was Brazil, directed by Terry Gilliam. Screenplay also by Tom Stoppard. Lead is Jonathon Pryce. Bob Hoskins. Michael Palin. Robert De Niro as Tuttle the guerilla repairman. What a cast!
Plus dark, Pythonesque humour and Gilliam’s visual brilliance.
Still a must-watch movie. Even more so today, unfortunately.
Will this apply to those wealthy few who have collections of veteran and vintage vehicles?
The Woke have no problem with people owning old cars they just won’t be allowed to use them.
It is the same with all Net Zero/woke policies, you will be allowed to have a gas boiler but you won’t be allowed to use it. You can have as many ICE powered vehicles as you like, but you won’t be allowed to use them
The ultimate in this woke direction is, you will have a vote, but you won’t be allowed to use it……
Remember Stalin’s famous observation.
Voters don’t count. Only those who count the votes, count…
prob not, they…will expand their collections very cheaply
they will be classified as “art” not cars …
Try reading this (link posted by Isaak Walton):
Is it true that the European Union will ban the repair of old cars?
It’s Newspeak. Orwell speak. Or in common language, everything from obfuscation to flat out lies.
It turns itself absolutely inside-out trying, and failing, to deny that you won’t be allowed to maintain old cars.
It all hinges on what is a residual vehicle in the proposed legislation. If you thought that a residual vehicle was one that was unable to be repaired, then the author puts you straight – a residual vehicle is one that “CAN BE considered as irreparable”.
So the legislation really does intend to prevent people from maintaining old cars. No matter how convinced you are that your car can be repaired, no matter how much work and skill and money you are prepared to put into it, if a bureaucrat thinks it might not be a good idea to repair your car then you are not allowed to repair it.
Bye bye personal freedom, personal choice.
Personal property
I’ve read the linked article, and it makes absolutely no sense to me.
That’s the author’s intention.
This is absolute batsh*t insane crazy. Why no major news outlets share this?
Good question. It’s tempting to think they are all in it together
Of course, that’s conspiracy theory.
But are you a conspiracy theorist if there really is a conspiracy?
I just want the nightmare to end.
Can you imagine the black market that will spring up if this is implemented? They can’t stop the parts from being manufactured outside the EU.
Smuggled car parts. Can the world get any crazier?
psssstttt… anyone want to buy a head gasket for a 1952 Morris Minor?
Why is that minor fantisizing about sex?
In the video, following the 8:00 mark, “…focus on your state government.”
Yes, it concerns me greatly that New York will end up using such restrictions to force gasoline fueled cars out of the fleet.
Hi gang! I’ve had to create a new user ID to log in here. Not happy about it but hey-ho, I’m not happy about a lot of stuff.
I’ve read ANNEX I CRITERIA FOR DETERMINATION WHETHER A USED VEHICLE IS AN END-OF-LIFE VEHICLE. I was pretty much OK with it because most of it describes vehicles that would fail an annual MoT inspection and we’re used to that. But the final criterion was this stinker:
Or how about this one:
I stopped at that point. I decided it had to be a troll, not a real EU document. (I read a lot of EU documents for work and they tend to be gibberish, which when you do tease one apart it turns out to be nonsense. But this is very clear. I think it’s a prank.)
Just down-votes? No hints about what you don’t like about what I wrote?
How many times do I have to tell you. You will all sit atop large lithium batteries and be happy!
Power bank goes up in flames: Plane makes an emergency landing in Hong Kong | Watch (msn.com)
smoke or vape on a plane and get arrested and have the antis screaming harm
a large crowd inhale lithium and god knows what else in confined space for some time and” no-one was harmed” uh yeah riiiight
well I guess I better try n find a whole car for parts for my 98 Jackaroo asap
sure wont buy a new crudcar made of plastic and unfixable. bad enough I have to get a hoist to even check the trans fluid thanks to stupid design and no dipstick