Guest Commentary

By Roger Harnack

Guest columnist

Truck, truck, truck, Tesla. Truck, truck, truck.

Here in rural Eastern Washington, the running joke is that the “T” on a Tesla electric vehicle stands for “tourist.” Indeed, the expensive cars, like their electric Toyota and Rivian counterparts, are an oddity easily picked out among rural residents’ pickups, four-wheel-drives, and older vehicles.

But what some rura...