Well, head honcho Lloyd at Treehugger is at his car-bashing ways again and this time it is all about the fire-breathing, gas-guzzling, earthquake sounding 840 HP Dodge Demon (above). He simply hates them as do many of the other Treehuggers and they all sound positively Progressive as they all use that phrase, either directly or in one of its variations of, that is the signature tell of all Socialists-with-a-totalitarian-trying-to-burst-out: You Don’t Need That! The other being “I don’t anyone that would want such a thing”. Anyways, he went on a rant and you know how the argument goes (a take off on “CO2 is killing GAIA!”) – it’s all about safety and security of pedestrians and innocent people in smaller cars because these Demon drivers are out to kill everyone!
Here on TreeHugger we do have a tendency to complain about big gas guzzlers and talk a lot about the safety of people who walk and bike. I have even called for a slow car movement so that we could all drive little fuel efficient Isetta-style cars. I worry about drivers behind the wheel of Fast and Furious cars; they often don’t know how to handle them.
Well, it seems like some car guys got wind of a poll he decided to put up – with the expected results:
Now, for full disclosure, I owned a ’68 Chevy Camaro with a 350 short block. To this day I have no idea how my Mom, as I was in high school, ever let me buy it. Thus, growing up in that era, I have a very large soft spot in my heart for such vehicles. The rumble of such a car’s exhaust causes my head to be on a swivel as I can really appreciate the engineering and the chutzpah to drive on in this age of simpering watermelon environmentalists that all DO want us stuffed into an Issetta, or worse, relegated to a “walkable community” and stuck with only “public transit” (lived that latter nightmare while living in Boston for 7 years – it is a special kind of hell when you’ve waited at the trolley stop for 45 minutes during a blizzard only then to find out the entire Green line was shutdown).
But of course, Lloyd wasn’t done as it seems that a Treehugger type crept onto the Automotive News site and left this dropping in bolstering Lloyd there:
Yes, let’s ban the Demon. While we are at it, lets ban the Smart ForTwo for being too small and not as safe as, oh let’s say, a Suburban. Then, we can ban the Suburban for being too large for parking spaces. Then after we are done banning the Suburban, we can ban all the other vehicles on the road, because all vehicles have a degree of safety risk, which comes from the driver. I highly doubt, the Demon is going to start itself and sprint into 5pm traffic. Just saying.
Or it could have just been another muscle head, tongue in cheek. But there’s the crux of the problem “safety risk”. The Brits know this all too well how much of their former lives have been banned or regulated into very narrow bands because of “health and safety”. You think WE have a bad Nanny State – consider us lucky but those that keep complaining about things here with phrase “but XXX other developed countries have such and such program” or “don’t allow that”. Yeah, well, if you like how they do things, stop trying to impose them here using the force of Government upon the rest of us – just go there. Betcha that’ll be a lesson fer ya! Or maybe you will have found your Nanny State / Progressive nirvana instead – and stay happily wrapped up in Nanny’s white all-enveloping cocoon where all of your needs and desires will be take care of (as long as you do and think exactly as it says to). But I digress.
So the poll blew up in Lloyd’s face and so did the comment area. So of COURSE I. Just. Couldn’t. Help. Myself. Right from the get-go, a commenter decided that Dodge HAD to be silenced and shut down for creating such a car – see the totalitarianistic leaning (WAY more than the leaning of the Tower of Pisa):
I move that we ban everything Chrysler makes because they’re just terrible at it. Let’s look back at say… Viper. The Viper came out when Dodge/Chrysler had no leg to stand on. No entry level cars that were worth buying. They were floundering on the market, approaching bankruptcy and developed a car with no AC, plastic windows that popped off with some weird latch system (like jeep windows but weirder).
Every time Chrysler is about to collapse under its own weight they throw out a new performance model and say “what financial problems? Look, Charger!” then a couple years later “what financial problems? Look,Hellcat!”. Now “what financial problems? Look,Demon!”
We should just forcibly shut down all of Chrysler. MOPAR fans can bask in the glory of what used to be (back when Iacocca had the reins and saved all the employees from homelessness) rather than panicking about what will become.
“I don’t like it so we need to get Government to put them out of business!” – why is it that these green socialists, full of tolerance and inclusiveness, are all too willing to crap all over those that disagree with them (oh yeah, go here). So I decided to let him know that it would have – but the mechanism by which he wanted to use, government, was actually the [crony capitalism] mechanism that kept it alive:
The marketplace was in the process of doing EXACTLY that – and then Govt stepped in and “saved” it under Iacocco. Then Obama “saved” it again by selling it off to Fiat. I hear Fiat is now struggling so you may get your wish.
Let it be, however, by consumers walking away from it and NOT by the heavy hand of govt (for which you seem to be advocating for).
And that, my friends, was the start of it all. There will be more posting from here simply because I. Just. Had. Too. Much. Dang. Fun. in puncturing their virtue-signaling.
