As someone who fondly remembers all the time spent with my father flying model 
airplanes and racing cars and motorcycles, I admit to a certain sentimentality 
associated with loud engines and the smell of nitromethane. But I am more than 
happy to create new memories as I leave those things in the past where they 
belong.
--
Ron

On July 19, 2021 3:36:37 p.m. CST, EVDL Administrator via EV 
<[email protected]> wrote:
>"Ford made a premium gas fragrance for EV owners who miss the smell of 
>fossil fuels"
>
>https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/16/22580508/ford-gas-perfume-premium-mach-
>eau
>
>or https://v.gd/JkwfOE
>
>Apparently this is a thing.  Just today, hours before reading this, I
>was 
>chatting with a young sales person in a hardware store.  She was
>perhaps in 
>her mid-20s.  We talked about the store's electric mowers and then
>somehow 
>got onto EVs.  She said that the new EVs were OK, even interesting, but
>that 
>she'd never buy one.  Why not?  Because she'd miss the noise and the
>stink 
>of ICEs.  I guess she was serious.  She even specifically mentioned the
>
>stench of unburned hydrocarbons. 
>
>It's a strange addiction, entirely beyond my ken, but there you have
>it.
>
>David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey
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