Category: Great Moments In Socialism

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

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It’s not about the emissions, it was never about emissions.

The rush to subsidize and mandate EVs is animated by a fatal conceit: the assumption that they will radically reduce CO2 emissions. That assumption is embedded orthodoxy not just among green pundits and administrators of the regulatory state but also among EV critics, who take issue with a forced transition mainly on grounds of lost freedoms, costs, and market distortions.

But the truth is, because of the nature of uncertainties in global industrial ecosystems, no one really knows how much widespread adoption of EVs could reduce emissions, or whether they might even increase them. (And no, this has nothing to do with the truth / joke that Teslas are coal-fired when fueled at night in many places.) While grid realities will indeed matter more than most realize, the relevant and surprising emissions wildcard comes from the gargantuan, energy-hungry processes needed to make EV batteries. This is one of those technical issues that tends to attract slogans, simplifications, and illusions of accuracy; a better understanding requires some patience.

That’s why “whose the biggest emitter” is a losing argument. The electrification of everything is fueled by rent seeking, political donations and naked cronyism. Emissions are just the cover story.

Quiet You

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Michael Shellenberger- World on cusp of woke totalitarianism as governments act to end free speech

The Twitter Files gave us a window into how government agencies, civil society, and tech companies work together to censor social media users. Now, key nations are attempting to enshrine this coordination into law explicitly.

Around the world, politicians have either just passed or are on the cusp of passing sweeping new laws, which would allow governments to censor ordinary citizens on social media and other Internet platforms.

h/t Scott

The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire

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More: The New York Times comment section on Title 42 border crisis reads like Breitbart comment section.

Buyer’s remorse

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If the federal government has its way, these folks won’t be the only disappointed car buyers in Canada, especially after 2035. Undoubtedly we’ll be told not to worry since “technology always improves”. As demand is forced to rise by virtue of legislation, $72,000 won’t come close to a standard purchase price in 2035.

Fleming said before buying an all-electric Volvo C40 Recharge, he checked the vehicle’s range, which was advertised as 364 km on a full charge.

Fleming says he made the $72,000 purchase in November and that it wasn’t long after that he and his wife became concerned about the distance the car was travelling on each charge.

“We are only getting about 225 km per charge – nowhere near what they’re advertising,”

 

How Can We Further Divide Canada?

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Looks like the next election will be a referendum on mandatory jabs.

Liberal.ca- Mandatory Vaccination

To finish the fight against COVID-19, protect people at work, ensure businesses can get back up to speed, and, most importantly, make sure our kids can safely return to school, we need to do everything we can to keep public spaces safe.

A re-elected Liberal government will:

-Require that travellers on interprovincial trains, commercial flights, cruise ships, and other federally regulated vessels be vaccinated.

-Ensure vaccination across the federal public service. As the country’s largest employer, this will protect the health and safety of the federal public servants and their communities, across Canada.

-We will also keep working with employers in Crown corporations and federally regulated workplaces to ensure vaccination is prioritized for workers in these sectors.

h/t Scott

The road to nothing

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If anyone senses that the environmental movement excels at perpetually shifting goalposts, here’s more evidence.  It appears that every ban on one alleged environmental injustice simply creates another environmental hazard, which in turn requires another ban. In the future, maybe your Big Mac could be placed in one hand and a pile of fries in the other. Will customers just guzzle pop from a common tap? Who knows at this point.

“We absolutely need to shift away from using plastics as much as we do, but trading in plastic pollution for deforestation and forest degradation is not the answer,” Canopy founder and executive director Nicole Rycroft told CTV News. “We really need to make sure we do not create another environmental disaster.”

With the ban, single-use plastic consumption is starting to wane, but in many cases those products have been replaced by paper alternatives. Rycroft points to grocery stores, now providing paper bags at checkout, as an example of that.

Ponzi alert

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In the latest iteration of a failed monetary system, Zimbabwe has announced plans to launch a new currency: a “digital, gold-backed token“. It’s likely that anyone who purchases these tokens are probably the same people looking to buy the Brooklyn Bridge.

I’m quite certain that if anyone was able to actually look in the vault which allegedly holds all this gold, it would be empty. Since these digital tokens cannot be redeemed for gold on demand, this is about as close to a gold standard as moon rocks are to swiss cheese.

In Zimbabwe, the new tokens “will be fully backed by physical gold held by the bank” and will go into circulation on May 8, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Gov. John Mangudya said. People can buy the tokens and use them as a way to save their money or conduct “person-to-person and person-to-business transactions and settlements,” Mangudya said.

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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Affirmative action comes of age.

A developing medical school trend to ditch the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) requirement may not bode well for the future of the profession, medical watchdog group Do No Harm told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Approximately 40 medical schools across the country have dropped the MCAT, a multiple choice exam that determines an individual’s ability to problem solve, think critically, and understand concepts about medical study, as a requirement for some applying students, according to a list compiled by Inspira Advantage. Do No Harm alleged that dropping the requirement is another way schools aim to bolster diversity on campus but asserted that it is a “dangerous trend,” according to its analysis.

It’s Probably Nothing

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More: This is unprecedented humiliation for the @federalreserve

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