By Any Means?

Zero CO2 By Any Means?
Zero CO2 By Any Means?

Biden and Co. are once again proving that they’ll enforce the Warmists’ ideology by and means necessary. They might as well start chanting, “From sea to shining sea, America will be carbon free!”

On Friday, November 17th, 2023 Biden and his Department of Energy (DOE) jointly announced that the federal government would use the he 1950 Defense Production Act (DPA) to funnel $169 million tax dollars into 9 projects across 15 sites nationwide in an effort to accelerate electric heat pump manufacturing.

Yeah, nothing says we’re the ones protecting democracy from the evil “MAGA extremists” quite like using a cold-war era national defense law to advance a Democrat policy agenda and specifically privilege certain manufacturers over the competition. 🙄

Now, don’t get me wrong; this isn’t, in and of itself, catastrophic, and I’ve little to no problems with the federal government funding research into just about any technology. That, to my mind, is the the proper and often necessary place of the government in the arena of science, technology, and engineering. No, my primary issue with this bit of eco-tyranny is the use of the DPA to do it. Operating under the very hard to politically combat penumbra of national security in order to artificially alter the market is dangerously wrong.

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Have A Green Christmas

Have A Green Christmas
Have A Green Christmas

Yeah. Have a very green Christmas indeed. At remember, all you good folk, the Eco-Fascists of the Climate Change crap would be A-OK with this, just as their always A-OK with all the real deaths caused by their non-fossil fuel energy ideas. And, of course they are. They would never accept any solution to their proclaimed problem that didn’t harm the wealth, basic lifestyles, and health of Whites, especially White Americans.

This has never really been about lowering global temperatures. It’s always been about reducing the economies and populations of White nations for the sake of “Diversity” and “Social Justice.”

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Put Me In, Coach

Put Me In, Coach
Put Me In, Coach

It’s a simple fact that we, the People would be in somewhat better straits right now if Biden hadn’t ran on and fulfilled his campaign promise to do his best to gut the American fossil fuel industry – largely and similarly to everything else this failed administration has done or attempted, because President Trump didn’t hate them. If this administration – not Biden his now senile and never intelligent self – had worked out some deals with our energy companies to make sure that the American energy sector actually used their new leases, we’d probably be sitting pretty nice right now insofar as most of the major economic factors are concerned. And, rather ironically and pleasingly, Biden’s war with Putin would even be going better, since our production and export would encroached upon Russia’s in the global market.

But, “coulda, woulda, shoulda” don’t mean much in politics and always mean that, whatever it was, wasn’t done. And, Biden’s a Democrat and someone who, by his own words, ran for POTUS solely to unseat President Trump and destroy everything he did for America. It’s not like the people who created his campaign and platform for him were going to have him blather or actual do anything to upset their more Leftist base. After all, you can only “fix” election results so far!

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Beyond Fake Meat

Beyond Fake Meat
Beyond Fake Meat

It’s looking like the days of fake meat may well be coming to an end. The Liberal/Progressive Eco-Fascists’, Climatards’, and Food Nazi’s dream of normalizing – and, of course, later mandating – plant-based “meat” products seems to be failing hard, wrecked upon the rocks of basic economics.

Beyond Meat is cutting its workforce by a 19% – approximately 200 employees – in a desperate move to slash eight figures’ worth of spending from its operation in order to survive it’s revenue collapse, which is now projected to be down by as much as $120 million (9-14%) from a year ago.

This failure is about as surprising as politician either lying or finding a way to “tax” more of your money. It’s simple economics. Fake meat is just too expensive; the only ones buying are the privileged coastal elites. And, even for them, it’s more about virtue signalling and supporting a Left-wing cause than wanting to eat the stuff. Certainly all attempts to mainstream fake meat have failed, with only 54% of people even trying vegetable-based meat alternative offerings at more blue-collar restaurants.

It’s really quite simple. It’s basic, almost remedial, economics. Any product that only appeals to a small number of potential customers and is necessarily priced above the pain point for the majority of people is doomed to either failure or being restricted to a small, niche offering.

And, given that the same Liberal and Progressive coastal elites that made a market for fake meat did so as a moralistic attack on normal people and as a way of entrenching their Warmist ideology, very few will miss this industry at all.

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New California EV Showrooms

New California EV Showrooms
New California EV Showrooms

There’s actually more than a decent chance that, thanks to the climatard idiocy of California’s Leftist government, that this will be the EV showrooms of California’s near-term future. Even more so than the rest of the country, California’s electrical power grid is by and large unable to support it’s current use, much less that plus millions of electric vehicles.

During a late-summer heat wave California Gov. Gavin Newsom pleaded with residents to conserve energy use through easing back on air conditioning and refraining from charging electric vehicles during peak use times. And that was with the current fleet of EVs, which is only 10-20% of their stated goals.

Yeah, California looks to set for a dark future. 😆

During a late-summer heat wave California Gov. Gavin Newsom pleaded with residents to conserve energy use through easing back on air conditioning and refraining from charging electric vehicles during peak use times.

Sadly, there’s an old sociopolitical aphorism, “As California Goes, so Goes the Nation.” In this case, if it holds true, that will be into a new Dark Age. 🙄

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