Tag: electric vehicles
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Misplaced Green Energy
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2025 (Mar. 4, 2025) — Why are we always putting green energy assets in all the wrong places? The main electricity demand comes from big cities and their industries, so the electricity generators should be nearby, thus reducing capital costs and transmission losses, and supporting local jobs.…
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Mining the Planet for Renewable Energy
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2024 (Jun. 30, 2024) — This election year, several critical issues dominate voter concerns. Illegal immigration across unsecured borders by migrants, criminals, sex traffickers and terrorists. Anti-police policies, reduced prosecution of criminals and rising crime. Unprecedented prices for food, clothing, housing and other necessities. Parental roles in education and sex changes…
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The Green Drive to Reorganize Human Society
by Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, ©2023 (Aug. 19, 2023) — It’s getting crazy out there. More and more of the policy proposals put out by the Green activists reveal their movement is more about forcing radical changes to our lifestyles and not about climate science or the environment. It’s like a religion where infidels…
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Ruled by Fools
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2022 (Sep. 14, 2022) — Australia has become a nation ruled by fools. We have surrendered power over every aspect of our lives and industry to fifteen debating chambers in eight ruling cities. These assemblies are controlled by lawyers, unionists, centralists, green dreamers, power seekers and tax…
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Don’t Even Think about Buying an Electric Vehicle
by Mike Latham, ©2022 (Sep. 13, 2022) — Electric cars are not new; in fact, the first electric-powered car appeared in the late 19th century. Admittedly, they’ve come a long way in 120+ years but are still prohibitively costly to own, unreliable in meeting the owner’s many needs (particularly in colder climates), and are overly demanding…
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Electric Vehicles are the Latest Democrat Mandate
by Jeff Crouere, Ringside Politics, ©2022 (Aug. 28, 2022) — Democrats love to issue mandates, whether it involves useless masks, COVID-19 vaccines, or the car you purchase. This week, the far-left states of California, Massachusetts and Washington issued mandates requiring the purchase of electric vehicles. In all these states, unless a hefty fine is paid,…
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The Gasoline Rocketship and Democrat Stupidity
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Jun. 13, 2022) — As background, when President Trump left his first term in office – hint… hint… – your humble servant could fill the 18-gallon gas tank in his car for around $40. Today, your humble servant paid $96.25 for 17.6 gallons of gas for the same car. Ouch. The…
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The Electric Highway – A Fuelish Policy
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2021 (Dec. 8, 2021) — Scott Morrison has had another green brainwave – spend a zillion dollars to build Australia’s electric/hydrogen highway. Naturally this Fuelish Policy will be supported and accelerated by the Greens/ALP coalition. They all need to study the history of transport in Australia. Soon…
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EV Weirdness Looms Large
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2021 (Aug. 5, 2021) — People are not excited about buying electric vehicles, so word has it that the Biden administration is gearing up to force us to do it. The trick is to use the so-called Fuel Economy Standards to do it. The reported target is that at least 40%…
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EVs or Not EVs
by Don Fredrick, TheCompleteObamaTimeline, ©2021 (Jul. 19, 2021) — I am not a “letter to the editor” type of person. Most newspapers and magazines usually contain something that annoys me, including grammatical and spelling mistakes that suggest many of today’s “journalists” missed more than a few basic English classes, but I rarely react with a…
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Bankers, Insurers and Activists Assault our Freedoms
by Duggan Flanakin, CFACT, ©2021 (Jun. 11, 2021) — Oil giant ExxonMobil’s 12-member board of directors reportedly has two new members who are climate activists backed by investor “Engine 1.” Under the headline, “Shareholders tell Exxon to eat ****,” G/O Media and Earther “reporter” Molly Taft gleefully ends paragraph 1 with, “Don’t let the door…
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EV Subsidies, Fantasies and Realities
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2021 (Mar. 8, 2021) — Tesla may be synonymous with electric vehicles right now. But within a few years, GM, Volvo and many other manufacturers will be making mostly or only EVs, because they’re emission-free, climate-friendly, socially and ecologically responsible, and more affordable every year. Which explains why we need subsidies…
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Electric Vehicle Shock Treatment
by Duggan Flanakin, ©2020 (Dec. 11, 2020) — Joe Biden, his fellow Democrats, and apparently big U.S. automakers have joined the rush to transform America’s transportation to 100% electric vehicles (EV) whether We the People want it or not. During an October town hall, Biden asserted that his plan would save “billions of gallons of…
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The Mad Rush to Electric Vehicles
WILL THIS BE ANOTHER DISASTER FOR CONSUMERS? by Duggan Flanakin, ©2020 (Feb. 21, 2020) — Tesla’s stock market value is already bigger than Ford and General Motors combined, says a report in Forbes magazine. Elon Musk’s company had already received nearly $5 billion in federal subsidies by 2015, helping him amass a net worth of…
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Madam Shylock Picks 2020 Stocks (RR)
“AN EVEN BETTER IDEA” by OPOVV, ©2020 (Jan. 13, 2020) — “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘The Pulse of the Nation,’ your one stop to hear it here and that’s about it. How’d I do? Close enough? Good. My name is Roving and, as you can see, we’re standing on the stoop…
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Tesla Battery, Subsidy and Sustainability Fantasies
MORE SUBSIDIES FROM EXHAUSTED CALIFORNIA TAXPAYERS CANNOT COMPENSATE FOR HARD REALITIES by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Jul. 23, 2017) — The first justification was that internal combustion engines polluted too much. But emissions steadily declined, and today’s cars emit about 3% of what their predecessors did. Then it was oil imports: electric vehicles (EVs) would reduce…