[AmericanThinker] Is electricity a source of energy? Most people will answer yes, which is incorrect. Electricity carries energy but it is not itself a source of energy, which in the U.S. is supplied 60% by natural gas and coal, 18% nuclear and 22% renewables (hydro, solar and wind).
The related question is whether cars are a major consumer of energy and hence a significant contributor of Co2 emissions? Again, most people believe both statements are self-evidently true, hence the importance of moving to electric cars.
In fact, cars (light-duty transportation) account for less than 5% of global energy demand, with U.S. cars accounting for 19% of the global car fleet, declining to under 15% by 2050 as car demand grows faster outside the U.S.
Putting these facts together, and they are indisputable facts, provides a stunning insight.
The U.S. car fleet accounts for a mere 1.0% of global energy demand (5% x 19%), declining to 0.8% by 2050. So even if the U.S. shifts 100% to electric-powered cars, the maximum climate impact in 2050 is a meaningless 0.2% (22% x 0.8%) reduction in global Co2 emissions from the current electric grid, up to a maximum of 0.5% assuming solar, wind, and hydro can, implausibly, power 60% of electric demand.
In other words, there is no factual basis to claim that the government mandate to switch to electric cars will have any material impact on global Co2 emissions.
This is not a debatable point -- it is easily verified, it is correct under any view of climate science, and it remains true even if solar and wind magically grow sixfold over the next 25 years, which is highly unlikely given the need to build a new transmission network, estimated at more than 200,000 miles of wires crisscrossing the country, and devise totally unknown, unproven, and likely impossible to achieve large-scale, economic battery storage.
Nor does the picture change materially if the entire world goes 100% electric for cars. In that case global Co2 emissions fall a mere 3.5% in 2050 versus a baseline of 24% electric adoption by 2035.
But facts count for nothing in the Biden era. The EPA seeks to force conversion to electric cars through draconian limits on tailpipe emissions. American taxpayers foot the bill for billions in subsidies to electric cars. California leads the way in mandating conversion to electric cars. Perversely, the major auto companies have signed onto the electric agenda, the harbinger of future bailouts.
Perhaps most galling is the continuous misleading of the public.
By law every new car must affix a window sticker with the following statement: “Vehicle emissions are a significant cause of climate change and smog.“ Any private company marketing such demonstrably false claims would be subject to ruinous civil and criminal liability.
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Oil and gas can be stored up, used later. If you stay home for 5 days, you use nothing. Electricity must be constantly generated in order to be available. Every home must be a fueling station.
If you use public transportation, slug, or walk, and do not own a car of any kind, you pay for no gas and oil subsidies at the pump. You still pay subsidies at the grocery store (delivery truck or food production fuel).
Difficult to escape subsidies, more difficult to escape increased rate subsidies on your electric bill.
If you have no electricity, use solar, or limit the use of the electricity you do have, you do not have to listen to media and political propaganda or "professional sports."
Too simplistic a notion? Think about it for a moment. The gov't/big pharma/Deep State goal is to make everyone a user.
#3
Smith confessed to a bit of a jolt
When Big Brother, suggesting a Volt,
Crashed his trashy mirage
Into Winston's garage...
"Like a first-date Gestapo assault."
#4
Privately owned ICE vehicles allow independence of movement, which the proles cannot be allowed to have. All about the control
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It's all about limiting movement. You'll note that the state with maximum environmental commitment is currently having the vapors about taxpayers moving away. You are a revenue stream.
'We will put you in your cubbyhole and you will stay there.'
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Fleet of new lightning-fast ELECTRIC motorbikes that go 0-60 in 3 seconds or less are revealed from makers including Mitsubishi
They let kids who are too young to get drivers licenses drive e-bikes. Dunno if these are the same as Mitsubishi's new electric motorbikes. Maybe they don't have as much power but they are, essentially, motorcycles and a drivers license should be required for them to keep the kids from killing themselves.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Gevorg Mirzayan
[REGNUM] On the night of January 11-12, an international coalition consisting of the United States and Great Britain, with the support of Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands, attacked Yemen. The Americans and their allies launched more than a hundred cruise missile attacks on bases and other targets of the North Yemeni Ansar Allah movement (more often called the Houthis). President Joe Biden said the strikes were completely legitimate and were, in fact, self-defense. They were “a direct response to the unprecedented Houthi attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea, including the first-ever use of anti-ship ballistic missiles,” Biden said.
#4
why are we pulling the rug out from under Ukraine?
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"The Yemenis are a warlike and religious people who have been at war for many years." Yemen has a per capita income of less than $800 per annum. In fact, Yemenis are among the poorest (and moronic khat-sucking) people on earth.
#6
Some day we might get a leader who understands there is no 'kinder and gentler' war that leads to victory. That may be when they start a civil war at home. Then all the concerns about appearance and civility will vanish.
#7
Re #4 - I suspect most people were pro-Ukraine after Russia invaded if only because they feared Russia trying to rebuild their Soviet Empire. The continuing story of malfeasance, theft of aid and general corruption is likely the primary cause of disenchantment. Resisting Russian encroachment was and is a laudable goal... too bad the Uke government (and our own kleptocracy) was such a weak reed to rely on.
#9
Protecting commercial shipping on the high seas is one of main things the US Navy should be doing. If Biden really understood this he would bomb the crap out of Yemen and tell anyone who doesn't like it to go to hell.
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[REGNUM] On the night of January 11-12, the combined forces of the United States and Great Britain launched a series of missile attacks on Yemen. On the American side, the operation was attended by ships and submarines belonging to the US Navy squadron in the Red Sea, aircraft from US Air Force bases in the Middle East and the aviation group of the aircraft carrier Dwight Eisenhower. On the British side, four multirole fighters from the Akortiri base in Cyprus and one refueling aircraft were involved.
#3
Might need to do some serious carpet bombing in Yemen. Bring in the heavy bombers...the B1, B2 and B52. They'll understand that. Do not apologize. Give 'em some shock and awe unless we want to pay more for shipping around the Cape of Good Hope.
[Hot Air] I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for Canada.
Just like a little brother, they were easy to tease but also easy to love, even if you didn’t want to admit that fact to them. If I hadn’t had the choice of living in the US, Canada would have been my second choice.
As bad as things have gotten here, most of the country most of the time is still free. That is less true in Canada, although the majority of its citizens are still good blokes, don’tcha know?
But then you have its government, which is even worse than ours.
In Quebec, the police are now warning citizens not to post their doorbell videos of package thiefs because they are, in the words of the spokesmen, "presumed innocent."
[Gateway] Those trying to deal with the impact of Joe Biden’s decision to open America’s southern border and entice millions of illegal aliens into the country now have started removing students from school buildings, so that the immigrants can be housed there.
But what’s coming is going to be worse, according to X owner Elon Musk.
Soon, he said, authorities will be "coming for your homes."
#4
The Third Amendment (Amendment III) to the United States Constitution places restrictions on the quartering (the placement and/or sheltering) of Illegal Immigrants soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent, forbidding the practice in peacetime. The amendment is a response to the Quartering Acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain during the buildup to the American Revolutionary War, which had allowed the British Army to lodge soldiers in public buildings.
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[American Thinker] At this point, Joe Biden and the Bidenites don’t just have a little blood on their hands, they’re bathing in it.
A few days back, AT published an essay by contributor C.S. Boddie that highlighted a recent tragedy in Colorado: an illegal alien, who had been deported four times before, killed a mother and her 16-year-old son, as he drove (allegedly) completely inebriated near a high school. The illegal had four "alcohol-related driving" convictions under his belt, and just days before, he’d received probation, community service, and work release from a Colorado judge; Boddie’s piece also included a number of other "chilling" examples underscoring the deadly consequences of admitting millions of scofflaws.
But dead Americans aren’t the only casualties—say adios to Whitewater, Wisconsin, a once-safe and once-quaint midwestern town. Whitewater recently came into the national spotlight after a letter to the Biden regime got picked up by conservative media. Local police chief Daniel Meyer, had appealed to Washington to request help for the influx of illegals that have cropped up since 2022, putting a "strain" on reasources, and bringing in problems like... these:
[Modernity] A rant about the state of Joe Biden’s America by Bill O’Reilly has gained massive traction online, as everyday people relate to the former Fox News host’s admission that he has ditched all his left leaning friends, telling them to "get out of my house" for tolerating the destruction of the country.
"These other progressive things, we’ve got to stop this NOW," the rant begins, as O’Reilly adds "I’m telling you, I don’t have any progressive friends anymore. They’re GONE because I can’t stomach them."
"Criminals running wild murdering people?" O’Reilly continues, adding "progressive DAs funded by George Soros don’t want to punish the violent criminals."
"That’s what you’re giving me? You support that? GET OUT OF MY HOUSE. OUT. I’ve had it." the host booms.
[Jpost] It has been nearly 100 days since the forces of darkness stormed the land, roaming about for what like seemed an eternity as they ruthlessly murdered and pillaged their way through various parts of southern Israel.
Like the Crusaders in Western Europe in 1096, Bogdan Chmielnicki and the Cossacks in Ukraine in 1648, and Adolf Hitler and the Germans in the mid-20th century, Hamas and its accomplices have reminded the world of the depravity to which human beings can descend, especially when they are driven by hatred of Jews.
And while much of the media has been referring to the conflict now underway as "the Gaza war," that is a misnomer, and a highly misleading one at that.
Although Gaza may be where most of the fighting is taking place, it is merely one of several fronts where Israel is coming under assault.
Indeed, what we are witnessing is something more far-reaching than a localized armed conflict between the Jewish state and the jihadis of Hamas.
...Consider the following: On five separate fronts throughout the region, terrorist groups that are trained, funded, and guided by Iran are attacking Israelis and Americans.
In Gaza, of course, there is Hamas; while in Lebanon, Hezbollah has been shelling northern Israel and firing rockets and anti-tank weapons at civilian homes and military installations.
In Syria, Iranian-backed forces have launched missiles at the Golan; and Shi’ite militias in Syria and Iraq have carried out more than 118 attacks on US military bases and servicemen in just the past three months.
And then there are the Houthis in Yemen, who have fired missiles at Israel while carrying out more than two dozen attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea since November 18.
...And the fact that these fronts have all flared up simultaneously indicates that this is a sophisticated and coordinated campaign.
Iran’s beloved pincer, which is finally coming together — after a fashion — after all previous attempts foundered on the Arab’s willingness to talk big then let the other guy do the fighting. And one notices that this time, yet again, the Gazans are doing almost all of the work.
...While it is true that Iran has thus far refrained from directly attacking Israel or the US, perhaps to avoid giving them a pretext to strike, Tehran has done just about everything short of that.
They don’t want Israel or America to feel the need to bounce their rubble.
...It bears recalling that it was just last summer that Washington made an inane deal with Iran in which it agreed to remove a freeze on the transfer of $6 billion in Iranian assets held in South Korea in exchange for the release of five Americans held hostage.
Just as critics of the deal predicted, it sent a compelling message of US weakness, which Iran has been lustily exploiting ever since.
...Diplomacy and appeasement have failed, and Iran is now racing toward the nuclear finish line even as it gleefully attacks Israel and the US through its proxies. This cannot be allowed to continue, and it appears that force is the only option to put a halt to the Iranian threat. Mind you, if Iran is gone, PetroArabs will get boisterious again.
But they don’t have nearly as much money to play with as they did when Al Qaeda was the new, cool thing. And whatever Israel can do to Iran they can also do to the PetroArabs, and without Iran Israel also has less need to hold back elsewhere.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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