Snowflakes Replace Range "Anxiety" With Charging Time "Trauma" To Avoid Buying An EV

Don't let your red meat GOP sentiments out into the daylight Agent009. It is unbecoming and really has no place on this website. Keep them in the shadows and darkness where they belong. Real people with busy lives and families have huge strains on their scarce free time. Be in vehicle range or charging times, they are all be to considered if you are going to take the leap and get into a BEV.

Personally, I think extremist liberals are laughable (e.g., "range trauma," "recharge trauma," "you owe me an apology for hurting my feelings", etc). I just can't take them seriously. I recently read of a bill that would compel automakers to warn the driver that they've left their child in the rear seat when exiting their car, rather than employing human self-awareness and common sense, as one might reasonably expect from an operator of a 2-ton motor vehicle!

This does not mean all liberals are a joke, but it's truly sad when you read stuff like this, and even more sad when you know someone takes it seriously!

On the flip side, I see extremist conservatives the same way. Note the word "extremist" in both cases. It makes all the difference in the world! Just like moderate Muslims are regular folks that I can have drinks with and enjoy their company, but the extremist Muslim with the suicide vest? Not so much. Extremism, in any form (PC Liberals, Fundamentalist Conservatives, Radicalized Muslims) are a big dose of weird, and I don't resonate with it.

009, can't you spell trauma correctly for the headline, even when it's there in the text for you?

Minor dyslexia day... corrected

Far lower crime rate, real democracy, realistic gun laws, universal health care, those Canadians sound pretty smart to me. Calling someone a snowflake for seemingly rational concerns is something that infant in the WH would do,

@Truthy. It is always interesting to see just how many people do not let the facts get in their way of forming an opinion. I think it is the mistaken belief in the notion of "American Exceptionalism" which often gets in the way of seeing approaches from other nations and how they may be better than the way things are conducted at home in the USA. One can only hope that in time the Canadian approach of looking after the health and safety of its citizens, elections that are by and for the people, welcoming immigrants from all over the world and fostering a culture and a national identity where multiculturalism is seen as a strength will spread to our friends south of the border and throughout the world. #iamcanadian

Say it after me...Rep-re-sen-ta-tive Re-pub-lic. Not mob rule-which is the true meaning of 'democracy'.

Tiberius1701A: In case you're not aware of it, numerous US Universities (Princeton being one of them) as well as numerous US financial institutions (Citibank being one of them) recognize that the US (and Canada and Britain) are not democracies. They are Plutocracies, run by the ruling class, a relatively small number of exceptionally wealthy, influential, and powerful families and legal entities (e.g., giga corporations).

(Note to Conservative Extremists: NO, this does *NOT* assert nor imply that profit is bad, or that wealth is bad, or that wealthy people are bad, or that all wealthy people or enterprises are part of the Plutocracy. These thoughts are just convulsive reactions in your mind, reactions to your cognitive dissonance. "Fake New," "Jewish Science", etc. are all just terms used to dismiss information that does not conform to the doctrine one embraces.)

@TheSteve. While I would agree with you that there are very powerful forces at play in US politics be it billionaires or vast corporations or SuperPacs as well as the gerrymandering of districts, in Canada however we do have a democracy and a Parliamentary system of government. Our elections do not involve corporate donations and just based on the last Federal election, considering how many people (and very likely a fair share of CEO's) did not want Prime Minister Trudeau to win and how hard they campaigned against him (using party funds made up of donations by individual Canadians), only through a vote at the ballot box was the people's choice arrived at.

That's right! Those that avoid buying EVs are indeed ICE flakes ;)

That article is terrable.

People who have self-imagined anxiety or trauma learn very quickly not to express it around me. If a car is not right for you, don't buy it. There's no anxiety in that nor any trauma.