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Former magazine editor John Blumenthal shared his concerns through the Los Angeles Times over owning a Tesla as a liberal after Elon Musk\u2019s purchase of Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s piece titled “I bought a Tesla to help the environment. Now, I\u2019m embarrassed to drive it,” Blumenthal, who had previously purchased a Tesla to lower his carbon emissions, wrote that he now felt remorse over inadvertently supporting the Tesla owner.<\/p>\n

“Because of the recent revelation of Elon Musk\u2019s political views \u2014 all of which I abhor \u2014 I\u2019m starting to worry about what sort of political statement the car is making. Will people see me as a symbol of right-wing environmentalism, a living oxymoron?” Blumenthal asked.<\/p>\n

He insisted that this apprehension was motivated by Musk\u2019s aim to turn Twitter<\/a> into an “unsupervised playground for neo-Nazis and other random hatemongers and wackadoodle QAnon followers.”<\/p>\n

TWITTER USERS APPLAUD, FUME AS MUSK DECLARES TWITTER WILL \u2018FOLLOW THE SCIENCE,\u2019 PROMOTE \u2018QUESTIONING\u2019<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

“When I bought the car, I had no real opinion on Musk\u2019s somewhat clouded political beliefs. Now that Musk has apparently swung to the far right \u2014 banning journalists from Twitter while reinstating neo-Nazis \u2014 I\u2019m horrified to be associated with his brand whenever I drive anywhere,” Blumenthal wrote. “I don\u2019t know whether to sell, but I do know that I\u2019m just not as comfortable driving it anymore.”<\/p>\n

The article also revealed that Blumenthal\u2019s motivation for purchasing a Tesla in the was primarily motivated by politics.”<\/p>\n

“The car was impractical, but it had sentimental value. My environmental activist friends were not impressed by my assiduous urban composting, LED bulb installations and energy-saving appliances. I needed to do more to diminish my carbon footprint. The icebergs were melting, my friends said, and at least one polar bear was wandering around homeless and hungry because of me,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

While Blumenthal acknowledged that the “sale of a used Tesla would hardly cause a blip for the company,” he continued to wonder whether he should act as “a form of protest.”<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a beautifully designed car with no carbon emission, and initially, I was proud of owning it and being seen driving a vehicle that displayed my concern for the environment. But I\u2019m a liberal, and if Musk\u2019s politics don\u2019t change radically for the better, driving a Tesla will become, at least for me, as hypocritical and untenable as driving a gas guzzler was,” Blumenthal concluded.<\/p>\n

ELON MUSK CALLS OUT \u2018LEGACY MEDIA\u2019 AND \u2018CORPORATE JOURNALISM\u2019: \u2018WE HAVE ONLY JUST BEGUN\u2019<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The piece was ridiculed on Twitter for Blumenthal basing his purchases on purely political motivations.<\/a><\/p>\n

“\u2019Everything I do is for social virtue signaling. Can someone who is good at the economy please help,\u2019” Ethics and Public Policy Center fellow Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry joked.<\/p>\n

Executive vice president of the American Conservation Coalition Danielle Butcher wrote, “It\u2019s embarrassing that people still think this.”<\/p>\n

“I sideeye the idea of a \u2018Hey, looka me\u2019 electric car being acquired solely out of concern for the environment,” Chicago Tribune writer Kevin Williams tweeted.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“You should just get a car with no toxic historical baggage, like a Ford or a Volkswagen,” podcast host Coleman Hughes joked.<\/p>\n

“Sorry your plan to buy away your climate guilt with a vehicle that displays your concern for the environment didn’t work out! But if you really want to stick it to Elon try riding the bus,” New York Magazine writer Alissa Walker wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/la-times-op-ed-writer-embarrassed-drive-environment-saving-tesla-musk <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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