We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

Alternative Subsidy 7 Comments

In June 2017, months after General Motors Co. beat Tesla Inc. to market with an affordable, long-range electric vehicle, it took out full-page newspaper ads touting how long its Chevrolet Bolt could travel between charges. The tagline: “Begin a long-distance relationship, now.”

Four years later, the long-distance relationship between GM and its battery partner, LG Energy Solution, is being tested like never before. At issue: who will pick up a roughly US$1 billion tab.

Y2Kyoto: Schadenfrozen

Alternative Subsidy Y2Kyoto 24 Comments

Bloomberg;

One of Germany’s biggest challenges in the fight against climate change is to keep the lights on.

As Europe’s biggest economy shuts its last nuclear reactor next year and utility RWE AG warns that coal plants may close earlier than planned, critics say green energy isn’t being added quickly enough. Germany’s ability to meet peak demand is poised to shrink rapidly over the next two years, increasing the risk of blackouts.

In a last push to save her fading reputation as ‘The Climate Chancellor’ before stepping down after next month’s election, Angela Merkel announced Europe’s strictest emissions goals. But the green power revolution she fronted for almost two decades is running out of steam just as the electrification of the economy will increase demand. […]

A supply squeeze would send power prices soaring for the many thousands of companies that make up the backbone of the economy. Wholesale rates have already jumped almost 60% this year to their highest level since 2008. That increase will feed through to the nation’s 40 million homes already paying the highest bills in the European Union, partly to fund the energy transition.

The green-hucksters at Bloomberg buried that third paragraph at the bottom of the article, and this one at the end:

In the meantime, Germany may have to rely more on neighboring markets for imports. But the closure of fossil-fuel plants in other nations too means that availability could be limited during harsh winters, just when the power is needed the most…

Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

Media RINO 22 Comments

A Secret History of How the Never Trumpers Lost the War of Ideas

Three years ago, I wrote an essay on “The Collapse of the Never Trumpers” that caused quite a stir. Rush Limbaugh talked about it on his radio show, while Nigel Farage congratulated me in the halls of Parliament. Hundreds of people wrote me “thank you” notes. The haughty Never Trumpers, not so much. My modest proposal was that the 3% of Republicans who never approved of President Trump should stop pretending that they were spokesmen for the 97% of Republicans who did. In the corporate media, where 97% of that 3% were keeping a high profile on cable news, the distortions became preposterous. This seemed to me elementary logic. But for the tiny group of delusional Never Trumpers, my modest proposal fell on them like a ton of bricks.

In the end, my essay ignited a kind of public war among conservative intellectuals that helped to bring down the neocons and the Never Trumpers in the media. Not only did the Weekly Standard shut down, but the National Review kicked out Jonah Goldberg, and the neocon’s peewee prince Bill Kristol went to work for Democrats – all in six months. How did that happen? They had no base of support outside of the Beltway, and they were in willful denial about their own unpopularity.

Margin Of Fraud

Margin Of Fraud San Andreas 18 Comments

The Newsome insurance policy;

Torrance police are investigating the discovery of hundreds of recall election ballots in a vehicle where a felon was found passed out with drugs, a loaded firearm and multiple driver’s licenses one week ago, authorities said Monday.

Approximately 300 ballots were recovered from the vehicle, which was parked in the lot of a 7-Eleven convenience store on the night of Aug. 16, according to the Torrance Police Department. […]

Providing an update on the case Monday, police said the department’s Special Investigations Division has partnered with the U.S. Postal Service and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Offices Public Integrity Unit to look into the matter.

Sure they are.

It’s Worth It

Unsettled Science 57 Comments

Eating 1 hot dog takes 35 minutes off life, study suggests

Researchers released a nutritional index this week aiming to inform guidelines and help Americans achieve healthier and more environmentally stable diets. The index ranked foods by minutes gained or lost off healthy life per serving, with processed meats and sugary drinks among the biggest offenders.

Findings included over 5,000 foods in the US diet classified by health burden and environmental impacts.

“We use the results to inform marginal dietary substitutions, which are realistic and feasible,” authors wrote. “We find that small, targeted, food-level substitutions can achieve compelling nutritional benefits and environmental impact reductions.”

Joey Chestnut laughs in the face of your science!

The Boy Crisis

If Women Ran The World It's Probably Nothing 17 Comments

Excellent podcast here.

Jordan Peterson talks to Dr. Warren Farrell about the problems facing boys these days mainly due to a lack of fathers, but a host of other factors as well. They dive into a number of topics, gender differences, raising kids, relationship problems, divorce, single parenting, schools.

Dr. Farrell has all sorts of data to back up what a lot of people already know. He has spoken to, and gotten the bum’s rush from, both the Trump and Biden administrations after outlining the various problems and presenting some common sense solutions. Details are in the podcast.

Audio version here  Video version here with a detailed breakdown of the when various topics were discussed.

For some reason they decided to title this podcast “The Four Do’s and Don’ts of Divorce” even though they spend very little time talking about that. Someone must of thought it was a good click-bait title. Regardless it gets more and more interesting as the conversation progresses. The opening clip in the video is a good hook.

Screwing Up the Retreat

Operation Empty Chair Shiny Pony 20 Comments

Kevin Newman: The people we left behind at the gas station

Despite claims of “miraculous” progress, we are still failing to evacuate our people from Afghanistan

Each family included an average of 10 people — so make it a hundred — told it was time to leave for Canada. Others followed, and pretty soon there were 500 Afghans at the gas station hoping for rescue. Some in the huge crowd were told to wear red to identify themselves on a list Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) had compiled. One even wore a Roots Canada jacket a soldier had sent over to him years ago. But it didn’t matter. No one from Canada was there to meet them.

For at least another 40 hours they sat at that gas station, trapped in the middle, unable to leave, with no further word from Canada on whether they should attempt to return to hiding, or keep praying for a miracle.

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