To the editor: When did the model of automobile I drive turn into a political assertion?
I’ve pushed an electrical automobile for 12 years to not make a press release, however to do my small half to struggle local weather change. However currently, my 2013 Tesla Mannequin S with 112,000 miles has turn into an emblem of my “assist” for Elon Musk and, by implication, President Trump.
By no means thoughts that neither of these males seems involved any longer (if ever) about decreasing greenhouse gases or saving the planet.
In fact, Musk is free to assist any political get together or particular person he chooses. However his swing to MAGA was in all probability provoked not by ideology, however somewhat by former President Biden’s refusal to acknowledge the position Musk performed in jump-starting the electrical automobile revolution. Biden probably snubbed Musk due to the Tesla chief government’s disdain for labor unions.
Now, Musk seems to have turned his again on this accomplishment, as he has been given free rein by Trump to dismantle the federal authorities.
None of this has something to do with my resolution 12 years in the past to purchase an electrical automobile. So why does that very same automobile now characterize one thing I don’t assist?
Daniel Bateman, Diamond Bar
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