Got an ebike last month, same reason as many others here. Gas prices got too high, to the point where filling up every week began to feel like some sort of humiliation ritual for me.

"Ya.. that's right.. empty that wallet of yours and fill up that carbon-farting pod of metal of you call 'freedom' loser.. heh.. you gotta get to work after all, right? That way, you can have even more money to feed me.."

That was the voice I'd hear at the gas station. Every week the prices went up. Until one day I said to myself, "enough".

I spent a week on Facebook marketplace looking at ebikes, mostly listed by null-years resoluters or disenchanted parents, and finally landed on a folding one with 20 inch wheels. Why? Because I drive (or drove) a sedan and didn't have a bike rack to haul anything else.

I'm 6'4, and look like a bear on a unicycle when riding it, but I could honestly give less of a flying rat's a$$. This thing has changed my life in so many ways I cannot count them, even on my opposable thumbs. I ride to work daily. Ride to breakfast on the weekends. In between, I ride just for the hell of it. Twenty-two miles per hour has never felt so exhilarating. My car's radio has been replaced by the sounds of birds in the morning, the wind in my hair, and best yet, the whiiirrrrrr! when I hit full throttle and begin traveling at 0 dollars to the gallon. Speaking of money, I've used my new ebike to milk my job for every dime that they're worth. Not only do I charge my ebike at my work, I also enrolled in their "alternative rideshare" program, so they pay me a stipend every month to allow some other employee's carbon-fart pod to rot in their scarce parking spaces. I'm literally getting PAID to have fun.

All hail the ebike. All hail the ebike. Governments want them gone and for good reason- you can't herd sheep if they can hop the fence.