Originally Posted by tandempower

It's not necessarily the car companies organizing this vandalism. Do you realize GM just announced plans to close several plants? There are people who take note of such trends and get angry at alternative technology for causing what they consider as economic losses. That is totally anti-competitive market logic, but if they decide to retaliate by throwing scooters in lakes and come up with the pseudo-environmentalist idea that they can publish articles about scooters being lake pollution, that's their freedom of speech.

In reality, cars, trucks, and the pavement devoted to them have caused environmental harm light years beyond scooters getting thrown in lakes by pro-automotive vandals.