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President Abraham Lincoln “possessed extraordinary kindness of heart when his feelings could be reached,” wrote Treasury official Mansell B. Field in his memoirs. “He was fond of dumb animals, especially cats. I have seen him fondle one for an hour. Helplessness and suffering touched him when they appealed directly to his senses, or when you could penetrate through his intelligence to them.”Lincoln, who decided to leave his dog Fido home in Springfield, Ill., when he was elected president, was given an unexpected gift of two kittens from Secretary of State William Seward.The president doted on the cats, which he named Tabby and Dixie, so much that he once fed Tabby from the table during a formal dinner at the White House.When Lincoln’s embarrassed wife later observed that the action was “shameful in front of their guests,” the president replied, “If the gold fork was good enough for former President James Buchanan, I think it is good enough for Tabby.”“Dixie Is Smarter Than My Whole Cabinet”Lincoln’s friend Caleb Carman recalled how the president would pick up one of the cats and “talk to it for half an hour at a time.” The cats apparently won the president over with their quiet adoration.At one point during his first term, Lincoln was said to have observed in frustration, “Dixie is smarter than my whole cabinet! And furthermore she doesn’t talk back!”Lincoln Loved Stray CatsLincoln had a special affinity for stray cats and was known to bring them home on occasion. Mrs. Lincoln even referred to cats as her husband’s “hobby.”When she was visiting her father and stepmother in Kentucky, for example, Mary wrote in a letter to her husband that their son Eddy had taken up “your hobby” by adopting a stray kitten.At General Ulysses S. Grant‘s headquarters in City Point, Va., during the siege of Petersburg in March 1865, just weeks before his assassination, Lincoln found his attention distracted by the sound of mewing kittens.Admiral David Porter wrote later that he was struck by the sight of the president “tenderly caressing three stray kittens. It well illustrated the kindness of the man’s disposition, and showed the childlike simplicity which was mingled with the grandeur of his nature.”Porter recalled that Lincoln stroked the cats’ fur and quietly told them, “Kitties, thank God you are cats, and can’t understand this terrible strife that is going on.”Before leaving a meeting in the officers’ tent that day, Lincoln turned to a colonel and said, “I hope you will see that these poor little motherless waifs are given plenty of milk and treated kindly.”Source: Unique facts

Which cars will soon be worthless?This is the 2023 Cadillac Celestiq, Cadillac’s new flagship replacing the CT6 and the key to GM re-entering the exotic market beyond Corvette after pissing on their own brand 40 years ago that makes owning a Caddy disinteresting. Maybe with this car that’ll change. This $200,000 hand built and crafted all electric Cadillac will be the most expensive passenger vehicle ever sold by GM, and it will have the best of the best with at least 1,000 HP and 400 miles of range and only a few will be able to buy. But luxury gas exotics don’t hold their values well when used. With electrics, who knows?Looking at the automotive industry, I will answer your question in terms of electromobility conversion at the industrial level and in top priority down. Looking at the landscape I can’t think of any one specific car that “will soon be worthless.” The best way of looking at the used car market and the soon coming new electric vehicles market, is to look at vehicle classifications in sizes, segments, or class of vehicles, then make determinations there. Also remember that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and those remaining gas vehicles that will be replaced by electromobilty are the ones that still have value for the nexthand owner, and as their usefulness diminishes even further with whatever service life is left in them, eventually will become impractical to use with just the few gas stations that will be left.Anything Fleets of Gas Vehicles are the First BargainsStarting from top priority, if you have a passenger or light duty vehicle that belongs to someone’s or something’s fleet of many of them, there’s a very good chance that within the next 5-10 years that vehicle will be nearly worthless opposed to when it was new as it was cheaper to buy them in bulk, and will be replaced in the same way. Because of this, their resale values will be less than their retail counterpart would be worth.So the long and short term fleets will most definitely be the first of many vehicle fleets replaced by a BEV electric vehicle before anything else in large quantities. Ironically this includes the fleets doing experimental testing on autonomy as driverless ride sharing services. So if you are looking for a really cheap bargain on a used fleet of gas taxis, last mile delivery vans, airport livery cars and vans, airport and neighborhood rentals, and all those gas taxis, fire, police, rescue, government and corporate gas vehicles, this is your decade to find one on the cheap while its electric replacement is being made and underway, before the pick of the good pieces are taken, and what’s left is sacrificed for parts or is crushed.This 2006 Lincoln Presidential Open Parade State Town Car belongs to a foreign head of state he uses as commander in chief to review his military brigades during ceremonial state parades, and probably will be in a carriage mews for quite a while before retiring hopefully to a museum or private collection. This is the kind of car that becomes an antique 50 years from now.Luxury Gas Cars, Big PIGGY Gas Cars, and Big Gas SUVs FIRST, THEN High MpG Imports and Hybrids LastIf you drive a large or gas fuel thirsty vehicle, you’re next. Big luxury gas cars, big gas SUVs, and other kinds of gas guzzlers that get poor gas mileage other than anything collectible, unique, or rare, will see their resale values become near worthless as opposed to when new, as gas car production gets phased out, and the makers pour it on with electrics. The last passenger and light duty vehicles that are gasoline powered to be roaming the earth and will hold the most resale value, will be the more efficient ones in using gas to keep their costs as low as possible. Plus, the smaller and newer they are, the more likely that will make them even greater candidates for electroconversion, for which the costs to convert are coming down in price as that emerging growth industry becomes more competitive.So all those Nissans, Toyota’s, Honda’s, Kias, Hyundai’s, Mitsubishis, etc. compact and smaller vehicles most likely will be the last gas kinds hanging around before they are last to put to pasture in the can crusher, or get electrified.The ExoticsDo you drive or have a small collection of Corvettes, Bugatti’s, Lamborghinis, Ferraris, McLarens, or some other rare exotic gas car? Don’t sweat about having it replaced by electric just yet. Whatever gas power plants that are in current production is it, so don’t expect any new Ferrari or Bugatti engines to be developed moving forward, unless there’s one or two in the testing phase as a last hold out I’m not aware of. But other than Corvette and Tesla Roadster 2 and a maybe a few startups with an exotic car or two competing with each other with electromobility in as little as two years, the powerhouse brands of your exotic gas cars won’t be due for their electric counterpart replacement in a few years to come as they need more time for development as opposed to regular passenger vehicles. So ironically you’re on the bottom of the electromobility priority totem pole for this segment.But keep this in mind the changeover is coming and the exotics are not exempt as it is the wealthy that are the most benefactors of high performance electromobility. Because of this, and as painful as it is for some gear-heads to be reminded, that electric cars usually have more horsepower, more torque, can go faster, and can outperform a gasoline car, and prices will reflect this on the new and used side of the market. And the electric variant will always be the top of the line more or most expensive, pinnacle car with the most horsepower, torque, and features. It has to be this way. Electromobility is the way the future is going. The technology is expensive and it has to be fresh. As soon as it’s finished testing it has to go right into the car, it cannot wait until the next refresh cycle or generation. And that factor will play into retail values depending on the vintage and the uniqueness of your gas exotic car and it’s electric counterpart. This also applies to the exotic bespoke luxury car market as well.Trucks and Motor CoachesYou mentioned cars but although electromobility really now makes a distinction in their separateness, with electromobility the truck and coach manufacturing industries will be now be sharing more of the same parts and technology. So in many ways the truck tractor and motor coach building industries are all still related, and these last two industries are about to undergo massive transformations with recent invented or acquired technology that makes carrying a battery on a truck tractor or motor coach bus lighter, go farther, and last longevity longer. And you’ll have the option to either carry more cargo at about half the cost of a long range BEV, or go for a car-like longer range past 400 miles. So much so, that hybridization which was supposed to play an integral role with electromobility in the heavy duty vehicles industry, won’t be needed for heavy duty trucks anymore.It’s one thing to save money on gas and maintenance this way with passenger and light duty vehicles. In the trucking industry this means billions of dollars are going to be saved in transportation costs like diesel fuel and repairing diesel power plants. The diesel tractor is about to go dinosaur on us!A Camping We Will Go!Are you a camper? Not just the happy kind, I’m talking about motor camping? Unless your present rig is electroconvertible the used RV motor camping industry is about also see massive transformations that makes BEV camping perfect for virus apocalypses and a really long vacation trip with batteries that are now state of the art and seem to hold juice for an eternity, while you wait for the end of the world in your camper!This means that all those gas campers will be off loaded for pennies on the dollar in what will certainly be a buyers’ market before what’s left becomes crushed.Which cars will soon be worthless?Values will drop starting with fleets of gas anything, followed by most things luxury and gas pigs, down to diesel trucks and buses and further down the price point product range to fuel efficient vehicles and then back up to the exotics which will all be the last gas cars standing with the most value as daily drivers until you need your phone’s GPS to find a gas station like you do now for a public charger! Isn’t that special?That’s how vehicles and their values will be judged! Hope this answers your question! Thank you!PHOTO CREDITS: Images of a 2023 Cadillac courtesy GM Media. 2006 Lincoln Presidential Open Parade State Town Car via Wikipedia. The green car fleet via Cascade Busimess News. The Ferrari Portofino via Ferrari Media. The Setra 500 Comfort Class Motor Coach and the 2020 Mercedes Benz S560 saloon via Daimler AG. The in and out of the Tesla Semi electric tractor via Tesla Media. The VW ID Buzz Passenger Electric Bus via VW Group Media and the Nissan Electric Campers via Nissan. All images appear here under the fair use act as I am a transportation reporter making commentary about current news events that affects the automotive and truck and coach manufacturing industries.