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Neighbor gets lit up after criticizing ’20th century vehicle vomiting carbon monoxide’

December 24, 2023 | | Print Article

NIMBY EV driver’s “self-righteous” criticism of neighbor’s gas-guzzler warming up slammed on social media over reality-denying self-own.

“…where does the power come from to charge it? Unicorn farts?”

Demonstrating critical thinking skills akin to someone trapped on a broken-down escalator, a social media user fond of pushing electric vehicles and “clean energy” took his zealotry one step too far early Thursday.

Pinning his own location in Virginia where temperatures had dropped into the 20s overnight, X user Ryan Scanlan focused on the visible exhaust coming from a neighbor’s car in the subfreezing temperatures when he captioned an image, “Morning all, reason #42069 I love our @tesla vehicles.”

“With a few kWh they warm up, without poisoning my neighbor’s air,” he virtue-signaled. “Had the extreme displeasure of smelling this 20th century vehicle vomiting carbon monoxide and other harmful contaminants in my face this morning. My kids play here, man!”

Whether or not the proud Tesla owner understood where or how the electricity he used to power his car came from or was generated was a key sticking point for many respondents as they chimed in with educational snippets, sarcastic and otherwise, about how displacing pollution was not equivalent to eliminating it.

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“Meanwhile, manufacturing your EV produced like 38% more emissions than manufacturing your neighbor’s car. That’s on top of the harmful mining your EV required. Also,” the user continued, “where does the power come from to charge it? Unicorn farts? And what happens when you need a new batter?”

Conservative actor Nick Searcy also chimed in and offered, “Ryan is as stupid as he is self-righteous. His car is powered by coal and child slave labor.”

They weren’t alone in drawing attention to the realities that went into producing and maintaining the operation of EVs and the rare earth minerals that had to be dug up.

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As one user pointed out regarding Scanlan’s “not in my backyard” lament of the exhaust on his block, “Right so your rechargeable cars can just poison the air in somebody else’s neighborhood where the power plant is. It’s not pollution elimination it’s pollution displacement. Until we shift the supply to renewables. And that’s a long ways off buddy.”

Attempting to hold the moral high ground, the EV peddler even engaged with some of the extensive pushback as one user remarked, “I think the children in the mines that are digging those rare earth metals out of the ground so you can drive that Tesla would feel differnetly.”

“Have you been googling things on the @exxonmobil website again?” Scanlan shot back with a GIF of Cypher from “The Matrix” saying “Ignorance is bliss” only earning himself more ridicule.

“Where do you think lithium and cobalt come from? The hardware store?”

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The intense ratio of the post came after EV operators were warned about an array of setbacks they could face hitting the road for the holidays, even with extensive planning. As had been reported, horror stories of waiting numerous hours just for an opportunity to use a charging station had delayed people responding to emergencies and making it in time for special events.

With replies shutoff on the post, further digs relied on reposting the failed gas-powered shaming.

Kevin Haggerty
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