Fossil fuel divestment and the ride from hell
This is a 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat. It is the Platonic form of the muscle car, a huge slab of overpowered absurdity, arguably the high water mark of the guzzoline age. It only has two doors, but seats four comfortably, being a huge hulking beast of a car.
It has a supercharged 6.4-liter eight that cranks out 707 horsepower, over 600 foot-pounds of torque. If from a dead stop you stomp on the accelerator, hard, the Hellcat will just spin the back tires until they explode. There was a recent test by a major automotive magazine perversely designed to see which car could burn through a whole tank of gas in the least efficient and most eco-harmful possible way. In that test, a Hellcat was put through one full-throttle quarter mile after another, over and over again until it ran out of fuel. It managed to get four miles to the gallon. Four.
This car is the absolute antithesis of creation care, blaringly, ragingly, willfully so. And Lord help me, but the 14-year-old boy in me can't not kind of want it.
