Basically I have trolled a post by some bloke called Keith. Here is his post:
By nature of our chosen passion, whether it involves bikes, cars, 4WD's, trucks, or all of the above, we tend to all be individuals. Even though we may have plenty of like-minded mates, attend shows, cruise, and all the other things we like to do with our vehicles; the thing that stands out is that we are all individuals - we all have our own idea of what a great ride is, what wheels look best, paint jobs and all the other cosmetics; and we all have our own ideas about performance mods. On top of all this, we all have an unfinished project, or a wish-list for changes we want to make to our vehicles. In short, no two enthusiasts vehicles are ever identical - they are individually tailored by the individual who owns them.
As individuals, we become an easy target for authorities and for governments who are out looking for easy vote winners. We are legislated almost to extinction by legislation, slagged by the media, and terrified of by the public. We are seen as little more than urban terrorists tearing up the bitumen in the early hours of the morning...
There are millions of Motoring Enthusiasts in Australia covering every facet of motoring, yet we are seen as a minority by those who would make it illegal for us to live our chosen lifestyle. With unity comes power, one unified voice speaking to the authorities on behalf of us all. Only after we are no-longer seen as a minority will we have the power to make a difference and be able to preserve what we now have - otherwise we'll all be driving buzz-box smart cars in the future, and there's certainly no appeal (or desire) in modifying those.
In uniting as one powerful group, one powerful voice, we ask no-one to surrender their individuality or become one of a faceless group - indeed, we encourage everyone to retain their individuality, to live their chosen lifestyle as they have the democratic right to. What we suggest is that all motoring enthusiasts unite in the common bond of our chosen lifestyle; allowing us the united front and the powerful voice to show that we are not a minority who can be kicked around by governmental bully tactics for the sake of a few more votes at the polling booth. We are individuals yet we are strong. We demand recognition, we demand respect, and we demand to be left alone. In unity there is strength...
If you agree, share this with everyone you know.
VOTE 1 - AUSTRALIAN MOTORING ENTHUSIAST PARTY - In the upcoming Election in the Senate. It is about protecting our future not only for ourselves but for future generations.
And here is my response:
Yes Keith, so basically cars are all about the individual and their apparent rights and freedoms and blah blah blah. Here's a question for you mate - in 300 to 400 years time when there is NO PETROLEUM left on this planet, and science has had to solve transportation issues with (a) other sources of fuel that will not be approved for use in private one-to-seven-person vehicles with top speed of approx. 150km/h because there won't be enough of said fuel/costs too great, or (b) solar powered, fully electric, hydrogen fueled, or other as-yet-unknown future power source-based vehicles that will probably end up being severely restricted in the speeds they do, and (c) increased public/mass transportation that actually works (especially when Maglev trains become cheaper and the infrastructure easier to build) thus leading to a reduction in the number of roads, what will your car-loving descendants (presuming you are capable of producing such) going to do with themselves? I see one guy going on about modifying smart cars, and one of the AMEP people (as well as you) responding "who would want to?". Well, in the future, your progeny are going to have to do exactly that, but even then the adrenalin that surges through your bodies now in response to the primal urges that cars somehow bring out in you is not going to be replicated in the post-petroleum era, and the mass enthusiasm for motoring will have at best roughly a three-hundred year lifespan, thus annulling the concept of your "future generations" of car-lovers.I await the response of the apparent masses, and I welcome your commentary. What is the future of motoring on Earth? What is the future of renewable and non-renewable energy? The answers are out there, but the AMEP are not the sorts of people who have no interest in finding them, nor providing those answers to the public. Why would anyone vote for that?
One-issue parties are a complete waste of time at the best of times. One-issue parties where the citizens who will vote for them are either nihilistic, lacking vision, or just downright lazy or criminal (in the case of the people the State and Federal Governments are targeting with all the legislation you people complain about) are a bigger waste of time again. Yes the people who run this country and the respective states are a bunch of useless, corrupt f#$%wits who are doing nothing to make Australian recession-proof, climate-change-proof, exhausting-of-natural-resources-proof, annihilation-proof or religious-fundamentalist-proof. Unfortunately, neither will you or anyone who votes for the AMEP. Get some people with brains amongst you and come up with policies in other areas!
One hopes that civilisation, which has existed for thousands of years longer than the automobile and its offspring, will last far longer beyond the demise of noisy cars and bikes. Perhaps if you get some scientists amongst your ranks, and pay your taxes and your speeding fines and so on, you may be able to prepare yourselves for a world (or even directly contribute to it) where you can ride about the Solar System (and heck, why not the Galaxy eh?) in really fast vehicles (no noise though, unfortunately - but ironically the space ships will be doing exactly what you folks are doing with your lives right now: living in a near-vacuum!).
I have enjoyed this, my first "trolling" moment in a number of years (though to be fair I am making valid points). In the words of Doc Brown - "Where we're going, we won't need roads..."
DC
I would love to add to this Dave. Aimed at Keith, and his dreamers.
ReplyDeleteThings change. Every five years or so a business must change their strategy and move to where the market is or they fail. Automobile technology is no different to this. We went from horses to engines. Poorly designed engines or just older engines are being superseded as we speak, and not just because they have been around since the industrial revolution, and not because people hate them, and not just because 'normal society' wants you to fail but because just like your 'modifications' to petrol fueled vehicles iinspires you, the rest of the universe knows that all technology is to be tweaked and modifying everything is necessary. And yet here you are stating you are a bunch of poor sods who are hard done by because the speed limits are too low, or that A.B.S. is detrimental to real safety because it teaches people to brake blindly and not drive properly blah, or that the world's is heading towards building little smart cars which aren't on your agendas. I didn't see you guys sticking your hands up to make a 'blacksmith' party to save that lost art, and that's because if you had to rely on anything other than a smelting refinery for the vast quantities of steel panels on your vehicles then you wouldn't have had cars to mod with your fully sick rims and wanky racing stripes. In fifty years time, the smart car might very well have some muscle. Because someone like you regardless of if you don't like them now would have modded it. And it will be more efficient if we improve our learning curves and technology earlier on. More efficiency in the long run means.... More power. Whoa.