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How To Opt Out Of Your Car’s Surveillance State (Before It’s Too Late)
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Burning fossil fuels is not acceptable
It may surprise you, but even older cars can be refitted with an electric engine. It isn't very cheap, but there's no surveillance there.
It can be relatively cheap if you dont care about having an extreme range. I know someone who turned an old beetle electric, and it just runs off of ~10 lead acid batteries if i remember right. Not a huge range, but enough to go to work and get groceries.
My dad used to have a bunch of old Mother Earth News magazines and electric conversion kits were advertised in all of them.
An electric engine is called a motor
Drama queens here...you can unplug the antenna on any car. No need to McGuyer/A-Team it.
Cars break air gaps at the mechanic when they plug into the computer.
This doesn't work
You going to a mechanic every day? Stop buying GM.
I don't own a car, partially because this issue doesn't (yet) have a solution
Big, ugly, expensive cars that I can’t fix myself with tracking software and touch screens are unacceptable.
Besides, I’ll get more horsepower from E100 and if it’s a diesel I can use fry oil.