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Demotorized: The 200 Year War on the Motorist
Cars, allow people to be free. They use them for work, to go on adventures and help others. Motors are a force for good which outweighs any downsides, yet owners have been relentlessly persecuted by the authorities despite being law abiding and conscientious. The motorist has therefore been a very easy target for taxes and the blame for everything from that new fangled climate emergency thing to the overall decline in the quality of life. I think that’s unfair.
- GenresCars
230 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 16, 2020
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April 23, 2020
Good Friday. Lockdown. Nowhere to go and even if there had been I couldn't have done. But an unseasonably warm sun was beating down, I had an unopened case of beer and my brand new copy of Demotorized had just arrived. It was time to hit the garden.
Before I knew it, I was a hundred pages in; this is a difficult book to put down. And with each new paragraph I felt my blood pressure rise. The author was hitting home with every word.
Demotorized shines a light on everything that sticks (or should) in the craw of the average motorist. Carefully laying out the evidence, he presents a cast iron case proving life – never easy – is becoming harder for the average motorist. Much harder. Covering everything from borderline-criminal car park cowboys to control-freak council zealots, James Ruppert casts an expert eye over every aspect of driving and car ownership in our brave new (potholed) world of increasingly high taxation and low quality public transport.
Make no mistake, this is not a book aimed at car geeks. If you ever use a car at all, you owe it to yourself to read it. Demotorized is well-written, informative and engaging. Mr Ruppert has done his research. Throughout, sometimes difficult concepts are explained in a light, easy manner but the message remains ever present: our choices are being narrowed. They are coming for our cars.
Unfortunately, the direction of travel seems set. Things are going to get much, much worse. Buy this book, read it, absorb its message and, most importantly of all, start to take notice.
Before I knew it, I was a hundred pages in; this is a difficult book to put down. And with each new paragraph I felt my blood pressure rise. The author was hitting home with every word.
Demotorized shines a light on everything that sticks (or should) in the craw of the average motorist. Carefully laying out the evidence, he presents a cast iron case proving life – never easy – is becoming harder for the average motorist. Much harder. Covering everything from borderline-criminal car park cowboys to control-freak council zealots, James Ruppert casts an expert eye over every aspect of driving and car ownership in our brave new (potholed) world of increasingly high taxation and low quality public transport.
Make no mistake, this is not a book aimed at car geeks. If you ever use a car at all, you owe it to yourself to read it. Demotorized is well-written, informative and engaging. Mr Ruppert has done his research. Throughout, sometimes difficult concepts are explained in a light, easy manner but the message remains ever present: our choices are being narrowed. They are coming for our cars.
Unfortunately, the direction of travel seems set. Things are going to get much, much worse. Buy this book, read it, absorb its message and, most importantly of all, start to take notice.
May 3, 2020
The Kindle edition is kind of a mixed bag: I really liked the author's wit and most of the points he makes, even though some of the material could have been presented in a more systematic fashion. That said, the editing is atrocious, and errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation abound.
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