CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT
Australia’s transition to electric vehicles has hit a road block in Betoota’s Flight Path District this week, as a vocal detractor emerges from the inner-city EV heartland.
This comes as local Papou, Georgios Plessos (78) returned home from a day of playing cards and arguing at the Hellenic Cafe yesterday afternoon to find that his car park of 60-years had been absorbed by the local council’s new EV roll-out.
What was once a perfectly good car park for his rattling 1973 Holden Kingswood – is now a dedicated charging hub for bludgers who don’t want to pay for their own pet-a-rol.
Niagara street in the town’s rapidly gentrifying light industrial inner-city enclave, was once home to generations of post-war Greek Australians like Papou Georgios.
While Papou loves and appreciates the opportunities that this country has provided his family, he also despises those who take the piss out of Australia’s generosity.
And it looks like that is exactly what’s happening outside his heavily-concreted federation-era worker’s cottage, underneath the bountiful olive tree that he has maintained religiously with old country fertilisers and plastic Fanta bottles full of water.
For such a sentimental 8 metres of asphalt to be handed over to some cable-knit yuppie who wants the council power his space-a-ship, is quite frankly an insult to this great-grandfather of 45.
It appears that not only is the owner of every EV that ever parks in front of Papou’s house now a lifelong enemy, but so is the stupid man that caused all of this nonsense to begin with.
As far as Papou is concerned, Elon Musk is a malaka – and he will now dedicate every waking minute of his life towards making sure that everybody knows that.
