We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Despite a common perception that electric vehicles are cheaper to own and operate than their internal combustion counterparts, a Texas think tank says the true cost is the equivalent of USD$17.33 per gallon — or CAD$6.32 per litre — over the life of the car, after factoring in subsidies and incentives.
The calculations were based on full cycle costs, including charging equipment, associated incentives and both direct and indirect subsidies in the form of avoided fuel taxes, averaged over 10 years and 120,000 miles.
And that’s not even factoring in emissions.
“Setting aside some of the questionable assumptions used in deriving such favorable economics for EVs, no one has attempted to calculate the full financial benefit of the wide array of direct subsidies, regulatory credits, and subsidized infrastructure that contribute to the economic viability of EVs,” wrote Brent Bennett and Jason Isaac on behalf of the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
“It is not an overstatement to say that the federal government is subsidizing EVs to a greater degree than even wind and solar electricity generation and embarking on an unprecedented endeavour to remake the entire American auto industry.”
A @MarkGerretsen Poll Goes Horribly Wrong
“…nobody had spotted it for five years.”
It’s December 2012, and someone’s just noticed something is wrong on the Internet.
Wikipedia editor ShelfSkewed (happily that’s a pseudonym) has been clicking links in an article about an obscure 17th-Century war that raged between the Portuguese rulers of Goa, western India, and the neighbouring Maratha Empire. It was called the Bicholim Conflict, after the North Goa district it mostly took place in.
Haven’t you heard of the Bicholim Conflict? ShelfSkewed certainly hadn’t. He wanted to know more – and started investigating the extensive sources listed at the bottom of the article.
But then he found many of the links led him straight to one article: the one he was editing. A perfect loop.
Ruh-roh.
“Culture spreads through believers.”
In the two decades since 9/11, we spent trillions of dollars and lost countless lives, without doing much to liberalize the Islamic world. On the other hand, we now have massive rallies in support of terrorist gangs in our cities.
It’s similar to the way globalist “engagement” with China did nothing to liberalize Communism. If anything, it’s become more autocratic and hostile to Enlightenment values. Instead, WE became more like THEM. We imported authoritarian ideas like their social credit system.
Part of the reason for these failures to win the clash of civilizations is that population movement only occurs in one direction. For all the bleating about “colonizers” from the radical Left, it’s the Western world that has been colonized, as is painfully evident in Europe.
Via Ace of Spades with plenty more.
I saw someone on Twitter point out this picture of “Anti-Colonialist” protesters in Paris.
Who are the colonizers here? The French, who have been living in France for 3000 years, or the Muslims, who started arriving in the 1960s, and most of who came during the past ten years?
How far do they want to press this “decolonization” theory? Do they really think that anyone who’s ever moved 100 miles from his place of birth is an evil colonizer and must be made to go back?
Like Church Burners And Mostly Peaceful Mobs
Them Joos was askin fer it: …the greater the Palestinian offense, the greater Israel’s crimes must have been in causing such a reaction.
News From The Shady Acres Nursing Home
Other than spending time at the beach, what was Joe Biden up to this week?
Saturday On Turtle Island
Dementia Joe’s America: Jamaal Bowman’s sweetheart deal. The corrupt DOJ. A media failure. What Israel needs from America. We need to institutionalize the mentally ill. Meanwhile at the Mexican border.
Religion Of Peace News: No Jews allowed (JW). A miracle in Gaza (JW). Diversity in Colorado (JW).
Woke Britain: Queer theory. Israeli TV show mocks the BBC.
Blackie’s Canada: Because it worked so well in the States. Less emphasis on jailing minority groups, and more emphasis on pronouns.
Global Warming Scam News: Nazi climate change propaganda. A related meme.
Your morning meme.
Feeding A Fraud
Bill Grahn: It turns out that it’s easier to make a profit, if your business doesn’t have any costs.
I’ve mentioned before how hundreds of nonprofits sprung up overnight (or reactivated) in the early days of the pandemic to join in the free-food distribution game that devolved into the Feeding Our Future scandal. I’ve documented how the final price tag is likely to exceed $500 million.
Few nonprofits bothered to file required tax returns to document their efforts. But I’ve managed to track down a baker’s dozen and they tell fascinating stories.
October 28, 2023: Reader Tips
This evening we zoom back to a Midnight Special TV show in 1973 to watch Focus perform Hocus Pocus.
Your well focused tips should definitely be posted here.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Ghost Ship Mary Celeste: The 150 Year Mystery
Is This How One Gets Epsteined?
The Libranos: Arrivescam
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
South Park vs Disney
Die must die.
Sorry, Not Sorry
They’re only sorry about getting caught.
Trudeau just blinked on his premier climate change initiative, the carbon tax
Late in the afternoon of Oct. 26, the staunch federal Liberal policy of climate change priorities conquers all just cracked. With Atlantic Canada, once a solid Liberal base, up in arms over the federal carbon tax on fuel oil used for home heating, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blinked.
Along these lines, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith thinks a renewable-powered electrical grid by 2035 is “fantasy thinking.”
The Libranos: YOU get a heat pump! and YOU get a heat pump!
I want a new country.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Racin’ Cars
Racer.com: Special ONE hits out at FIA, World RX over rallycross fire investigation
Special ONE Racing pointed out the cause of the fire in a statement issued Thursday, saying, “Various testimonies, surveillance camera footage, telemetry data, and expertise based on samples taken from the debris have definitively established the origin of the blaze: a thermal runaway of the lithium-ion battery onboard the car.
“Kreisel Electric, the supplier of this equipment, which is common to all RX1e category models, could not guarantee that such an incident would not recur in the future. Therefore, the FIA has decided not to allow these cars to compete until further notice,” the statement continued. “If this situation persists, it will have the consequence of jeopardizing the future of the discipline, as it undermines the well-being of all its stakeholders.”
While the FIA and World RX began an investigation into the cause of the fire in its immediate aftermath, there hasn’t been a significant update since it began.
h/t @arlasko
Ana Kasparian Appears to Have Woken Up!
But Orange Man Bad!