I don't hate electric vehicles. What I hate is the smugness of the culture that's come to surround them, and the ham-fisted tactics the more fanatical stripe of the green lobby often employs to try and force people who don't want them to accept electric vehicles in contexts where, the technology being where it is these days, they simply do not belong. I've said more than once that should the fueling infrastructure for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles become decently entrenched, I think that technology shows a lot of promise.

Sports motorcycles, there again, nothing wrong with them in principle. I had zero interest in having one myself even back in the days when I felt competent to operate such a thing, but that doesn't mean I'm against them as a concept. I will say, though, that it must be very frustrating being a sports motorcycle rider who possesses a lick of sense and/or consideration, because the ones who don't - and there do seem to be an awful lot of them sometimes - make the rest of us hate all of you.

OTOH, really hardcore Harley people, as we saw at the beginning of this conversation, can be just as annoying. I think maybe it's just extremists I don't like, regardless of what their device of choice is. :)

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