Evans: It's difficult to stop the drive of progress

Controversy, of sorts, arrived in my driveway last week.

There was no commotion. There were no protesters. No picketers. No chants about destroying the economy or caving in to China.

In fact, there was virtually no sound at all when the revolution in the American automobile industry rolled to a stop - and our niece and her husband and their dog stepped out of their Tesla.

Annie and Nathan were on their way home to Texas after a vacation in the Midwest. They are not rabble-rousers. You won't find them marching with signs in front of government buildings.

But they are concerned about the environ...