Down With Electric Vehicles!
Posted By: mc squared, 9/12/2022 12:32:17 PM
Posted on September 11, 2022 by John Hinderaker in Electric vehicles, Energy Policy, Environment Down With Electric Vehicles! Are people finally starting to catch on to the fact that electric vehicles are a terrible idea? I hope so. Bjorn Lomborg makes the case in accessible form in the Wall Street Journal. To begin with, EVs don’t even save much on CO2 emissions: Over its lifetime, an electric car does emit less CO2 than a gasoline car, but the difference can range considerably depending on how the electricity is generated. Making batteries for electric cars also requires a massive amount of energy, mostly from burning coal in China.
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Down With Electric Vehicles!
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Posted on September 11, 2022 by John Hinderaker in Electric vehicles, Energy Policy, Environment
Down With Electric Vehicles!
Are people finally starting to catch on to the fact that electric vehicles are a terrible idea? I hope so. Bjorn Lomborg makes the case in accessible form in the Wall Street Journal. To begin with, EVs don’t even save much on CO2 emissions:
Over its lifetime, an electric car does emit less CO2 than a gasoline car, but the difference can range considerably depending on how the electricity is generated. Making batteries for electric cars also requires a massive amount of energy, mostly from burning coal in China.
Great Reset: Switzerland Threatens to
Jail People Who Heat Their Homes Too Much
in the Winter 16 replies
Jail People Who Heat Their Homes Too Much
in the Winter 16 replies
People who heat their homes above a certain temperature in Switzerland during the Winter face fines and potentially up to three years in prison if energy rationing measures are put in place.
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The recipe for a Democrat October surprise
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Start with one divisive presidential speech accusing 74 million voters of being enemies of the state. Add two Marine guards against a blood-red background for flavor. Whip up the base. Stir in a large pool of resentment and bring to a boil. Sprinkle in a large contingent of FBI operatives to mix with low-intellect stoned bloggers living in repair shop basements and calling for civil war.
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From the Albany Times Union:
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I don’t know, and neither do the experts who are charged with predicting them.
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I realize in advance that this message is futile, but I will try once again. Republicans/conservatives are in the habit of repeating the same mistakes over and over and over and over and over, and never learning from their mistakes, much less changing tactics. Their slogan is, “It didn’t work last time? Or the time before then? Or the time before that? Then we must try harder at doing the same thing!”
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The month-to-month figure
Illinois mayor demands an apology from
the governor for sending illegal migrants
without notice 21 replies
the governor for sending illegal migrants
without notice 21 replies
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No sentient being (sorry Joe) could believe that we can give up oil and gas as the energy source for the world economy. Unless they have nefarious ends.