The below article is by Daniel Bleakley, a clean technology researcher and advocate with a background in engineering and business. It shows how far some people will go to maintain status quo. For such vandals, facts don’t matter, they make up their minds first then look for facts to support their position.
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“Four Tesla Superchargers have been vandalised in New Zealand by a man wielding a sledgehammer. Officers responded and located the man’s car, which they pulled over. The 31 year old driver was arrested for intentional damage and also driving with excess breath alcohol. Police also confirmed the man was driving a Ford Ranger.
The attack on the charging stations could be the result of an escalating culture war being waged against electric vehicles. According to the IEA, the global oil industry earned $4 trillion in 2023, or a staggering $10 billion per day. Electric vehicles represent an existential threat to the $4 trillion oil industry which has responded in recent years with a global propaganda campaign to slow the transition to EVs in order to protect their monopoly on global transport energy supply chains. From the oil industry’s perspective, they can theoretically pay charlatans, shock jocks and PR spin doctors hundreds of millions of dollars to sow misinformation about EVs into the public discourse and if it delays the uptake of EVs by a single day, it has paid for itself.
With the recent rapid increase in uptake of EV the oil industry now faces existential threat and is responding like a wounded animal by lashing out and dialling up the lies and outrage through its political representatives and propaganda units as we have witnessed in Australia since the government proposed to bring in a New Vehicle Efficiency Standard. Although disgraceful behaviour directed at electric vehicle owners is nothing new with many instances of charging stations being purposely “ICEed” over recent years, it seems some of the gullible victims of fossil fuel propaganda are now taking their mindless hate to a new level by physically attacking clean technology infrastructure directly.”
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Here are some thoughts I had shared previously on ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT EVs https://lnkd.in/dbCBnRDR and EV ARSON ATTACKS https://lnkd.in/dq3pC2pE
CULTURE WAR AGAINST EVs
