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"This is the twelfth junkyard in six weeks to mysteriously burn everything in it. Now let me ask you a question. If you were about to take all of the older vehicles that are on the roads off, and you didn't want anybody to find parts, how would you do that? If you're about to say, 'You know what? We don't want all these older vehicles on our roads anymore. We're gonna put new mandates, we're gonna make you buy cars with sensors, we're gonna do all this stuff' — but how do we stop people from continuing to keep their old cars? Maybe burn all the junkyards? Nah, that couldn't be it, right? Like, that's just too smart of thinking, right? That's conspiracy thinking, right? This is just an accident, right? No coincidences, right? Stay safe, America."

THE “KILL SWITCH” IN NEW CARS COULD BE REAL! In 2021, Congress passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Buried in it is Section 24220, which requires new vehicles to include technology that can detect driver impairment and disable the car. The stated goal is to prevent drunk driving, with systems that monitor blood alcohol levels and stop a vehicle from starting if you’re over the limit. It sounds reasonable at first. But it raises serious concerns about how both government and manufacturers could misuse this kind of control in a dystopian fashion. Rep. Thomas Massie and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna have pushed to defund enforcement of this mandate, but have faced bipartisan resistance. This is how your civil liberties are chipped away. In the name of safety, the government gains the ability to control how you use a car you paid for and already pay taxes on.