No. As much as I love internal combution engines, there is a finite end to the supply of natural gas and fossil fuels, and the move to electric vehicles is inevitable, maybe not immediately, but eventually.

We need to preserve our existing fossil fuel supplies for those applications such as airplanes that will be difficult to power electrically, and for long distance driving, until faster recharging and a National recharging network is viable. BUT, for local commuting, especially in highly emission-polluted urban areas, electric makes so much sense. So what if a 200 mile range is reduced to 100 miles in the winter? For a large majority of urban commuters and drivers, that’s more than enough.

I have spent an inordinate percentage of my life racing and working with IC engines - countless hours tuning Webers, working on a dyno and a flowbench, but when one of my current vehicles is due to be replaced, it will be electric since most days, I drive no more than 25 miles a day. I’ll Keep a regular gas vehicle or a hybrid for trips and bemoan the loss of the sound of a 9,000 RPM V8 at full chat, but it’s time to embrace a new paradigm - it’s the future, and no amount of nostalgia will stop it.

I take absolutely no credit for the image as posted. Post processing success goes to (alphabetically) to Hoggers Beowulf, Kubota King and SoHillGuy.

The actual photo is a scanned Ectachrome slide. Camera an Argus C-3. Photographer a 16 year old who's skills were more in tune with taking pictures of girls on the beach. Anyway, the location is Fremont Drag Strip circa 1960, the car is, I believe, Tommy Ivo's first 4 engine dragster. If you look closely at the bottom of the picture you will see two steel cables attached to posts made out old telephone polls. That is the safety barrier. Never saw it stop a car that wanted to leave the strip. If you look across the strip to the left of the stands you, if you have a good imagination, can see spectator's cars right up against the safety barrier. Probably lost a few of them occasionally but that was just part of the fun.