In order to save copious amounts of time, you drove a car for 17 hours straight? Nope, not buying it.
And maybe they would have appreciated the sugar and equipment more than 2 day old dinner?
Or maybe just go out to eat??? Or buy something already made? I don’t know. 17 hours is so long. I would sooner kill myself, and let them eat me. Assuming they have a working oven.
If I have to stop every 200 miles it’s a crap ton.
And actually I looked it up and Tesla Model 3 says 170 miles on a 30 minute charge but 300 on a full charge.
I assume that’s using no phone charger, no GPS, no audio, no climate control. So what is it if you use that stuff?
Also, I can’t just go the full 170 miles and pull a charger out of my back pocket. I usually gas up with about 50 miles to go until empty. Maybe I could get away with only 25 though.
Ignoring my desire to use electronics during the trip the initial charge would take me roughly 275 miles and then I have to stop every 145 miles or thereabouts. On a 1,000 mile trip that means 6 stops if I’m not running on fumes when I get there. That’s 3 hours. Compared to the maybe 40 minutes I’d otherwise be stopping. It would add 2 hours & 20 minutes to the trip… the difference between arriving at 1:30 AM vs 3:50 AM.
I probably couldn’t safely do that. I’d have to get a hotel. And unpack all the food overnight and repack it in the morning. Ugh, what a mess.
And that’s if I’m not allowed to use GPS or air conditioning or listen to the radio. It may be nothing to you but it’s a huge freaking deal to me.
Do we really think we can do anything about global warming right now that won’t have unintended consequences and cause the next disaster we are trying to fix? I’m not confident in this at all which is why it’s not that urgent for me. Humans are really good at being undeservedly confident they have the answer when in fact they just create another huge problem.
Except it would extend it to 17 hours & 40 minutes if I didn’t use heat it AC or the radio or my phone or GPS. (I do just about have the route memorized at this point, but I’d probably need GPS to find charging stations.)
So a very pleasant and comfortable 15 hours or a miserable 17.667 hours necessitating an overnight stay.
Conversely humans are great at ignoring problems they can’t completely solve immediately.
Imo, the longer we put it off, the more we will depend on hacks. And the less time we will have to research the hacks.
I’m all for the road trip, but I think I would have settled for grabbing a meal kit from a local restaurant if that was an option.
No… 15 hours straight. Which is about my cutoff for a day.
Plane ride would take a minimum of 8 hours if everything went perfectly and often takes 10 or more hours, so the driving only adds 4-7 hours. Certainly if you include the value of my time in buying all the stuff I’d have to buy (just finding stuff like a pastry blender Thanksgiving week in their small town is not a given) and how much longer it takes to find anything and the fact that it would take me five times longer to make stuff and it just doesn’t make sense.
We spend more than half our Thanksgivings there and each year I do more of the cooking, which is fine. But it wasn’t my first rodeo. I weighed the options and that was the one that by far made the most sense. I’ll probably do it again this coming Thanksgiving if AOC doesn’t stand in my way.
Eh, everything was pretty tasty. It was the best turkey I’ve ever made, actually.
We did buy a mixer one year and left it for future visits. They threw it away. 
I also would not want to do a road trip in an EV. I can get to some reasonable vacation spots in 12 hours, which is really pushing the limit for how long the kids will be able to handle being in the car. Really, about 9 hours is when they start getting cranky. But @12 hours we can get up early and be there for dinner.
I also don’t like driving in the darkness, at least not for very long if I can avoid it.
I read from 8:30 to 1:30. Which is… 24-7=17?
Conversely you could just buy them some McDonald’s.
Hmm, I may have inadvertently given away time change data.
It’s a 13:45 drive on Waze if there’s no traffic. It usually takes me about 15 because I basically always run into traffic somewhere and I do make a few short stops.
This is essentially what hubby suggested. No one would have been mad at me if I’d flown and we ate Chinese. But, call me crazy, I think it’s nice to have turkey on Thanksgiving!
Speaking as someone who is like a child, long and frequent breaks makes road trips more bearable.
Actually, if I’m on the ball I might try the Costco Schwans Thanksgiving dinner, which I think I can have delivered to their door. (They’re nowhere near a Costco, but I think it’s shipped via FedEx or UPS). But we tend to be last-minute planners and they’ve always been sold out by the time we’ve firmed up our plans.
But if they’re not I’ll probably try that and maybe only supplement with what has become everyone’s favorite pie.
Well that’s the thing, this isn’t about just you. This is about the overall benefit to mankind, especially when it comes to being green and saving the planet.
Most of those things you list out can only be compared because you personally have experience with it. That’s not the experience for most people. And the younger generation won’t even know what fuel cars were like so they will have nothing to compare it to anyway.
Between the slight inconvenience to you vs saving the planet, I think the latter takes the cake. And when you really look at it, you’re not really sacrificing much.
Even as a child I never thought like this. It’s 17 hours from my hometown to my parents’ hometown the way they drive. I was always the one saying “come ON, we’ve been at this picnic spot long enough, let’s GO!!!” Even as a little kid. I just want to drive until I get there.
Meh. If the climate is so unimportant to AOC that she can fly first class to Austin then I think I’m entitled to air conditioning when I’m in the south. If she’s not willing to trade the comforts of first class to even fly in (climate controlled) coach, why should I sweat in 100+ degree heat?
I think my stamina, and therefore the safety of myself and others on the road would be adversely affected. When sweat gets in my eyes I can’t see very well. Plus I’d tire a lot faster.
I have a friend who when he was 10, felt that the drive to New England was so incredibly slow that he told his parents “if I’m ever dying, please take me here again.”
Speaking of which… do you use heat and/or air conditioning in your home? If so, why do you hate the environment?