Plastic Police: DC City Gov’t has plastic straw cops to enforce ban! – DC urges public to ‘submit a tip’ if business or org. is ‘in violation’ by using ‘plastic straws and/or stirrers’ or ‘foam’ cups, plates, bowls or plastic bags
DC has 3 full-time straw cops on the beat to enforce the straw ban. And of course a tip line. This is a real graphic produced by the district government.https://t.co/t4dHAKRtJS https://t.co/Nh5okAhv8D pic.twitter.com/0aUXikoDlE — Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) September 6, 2024 https://doee.dc.gov/foambantip Office of the Mayor of the District of Columbia – Muriel Bowser, Mayor # Use […]
Spiked Online: ‘The elitism of electric cars’: ‘EVs are still only viable for the well-off, urban-dwelling, laptop class’ – This is hardly a ‘movement… powered by people’
Hugo Griffiths: No invention has done more to liberate society than the mass-produced car. It has become as democratized as such a complex piece of machinery can be. … Electric cars upend much of this, bringing greater expense and requiring a host of well-documented sacrifices from drivers. Unsurprisingly, most are unwilling to make the switch. This issue has become so pronounced that manufacturers are now restricting sales of petrol and diesel models to avoid the gargantuan government fines (£15,000 per car over quota) that will be imposed on brands if they don’t shift enough EVs. Such threats wouldn’t be needed if the product were in demand. …
All this pro-EV legislation has been drawn up by people who tend to be isolated from the population at large. … EV advocates often blame poor sales of electric cars on ‘misinformation’.
Charging is so stacked against the poor as to be an ideal subject for fans of class analysis. If your home has a driveway (a feature that makes a house more valuable), then an EV can make a great deal of sense. Each morning, you come down to a car conveniently filled with cheap overnight electricity, priced at as little as seven pence per unit and taxed at a liberal five per cent VAT.
Not so the individual who has to park on the street. He must not only pay a commercial rate of perhaps 85 pence per unit of electricity, but is also hit with 20 per cent VAT. This means that while filling an EV at home can be as cheap as £3.50, the same amount of electricity going into the same car can easily cost £42.50 on the open road.
Our ideal EV driver has, therefore, a nice job, can work from his phone and has a house with a driveway. This is hardly a ‘movement… powered by people’, as one pro-EV publication was bold enough to call it.
The truth is this: electric cars and their policies favor the fortunate.
Harris now abandons 2019 pledge to ban plastic straws – ‘Her campaign says that’s no longer her position’
During a CNN town hall in 2019, Harris was asked whether plastic straws should be banned.
“I think we should,” she said. “We do need to ban the plastic” straws, she added, saying that paper straws needed to be improved.
Foreign Automaker Stellantis (Chrysler, Jeep & Ram) Lays Off Thousands of Michigan Workers after Pocketing Hundreds of Millions in Biden EV Subsidies
Foreign Automaker Lays Off Thousands of Michigan Workers after Pocketing Hundreds of Millions in Biden EV Subsidies By James Lynch A multinational automaker prepared to lay off more than 2,000 American workers in August after benefiting handsomely from the Biden administration’s subsidies for electric-vehicle production. Stellantis, the parent company to famous brands like Ram and Jeep, […]
Climate Fact-Check August 2024 Edition: Debunks ‘the biggest false claims made in the media’
Climate Fact-Check August 2024 Edition By Steve Milloy by: The Competitive Enterprise Institute, The Heartland Institute, the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and the International Climate Science Coalition, and Truth in Energy and Climate. Editor’s note: This summary serves as a fact check on the biggest false claims made […]
‘She is extremely committed to climate action’ – Harris-Walz Campaign Appoints New ‘Climate Engagement Director’ to ‘lead its climate-change charge’
Harris Campaign Appoints New Climate Engagement Director Harris ‘appointed longtime activist Camila Thorndike to lead its climate-change charge.’ By Candice Helfand-Rogers Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign wants American to know that it’s taking climate change seriously – and has now hired a champion for the cause. This week, news broke that Harris has tapped noted climate activist Camila Thorndike to […]
Watch: Biden admits $369 billion ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ had NOTHING to do with inflation: ‘We should have named it what it was…the most significant climate change law ever’
The Inflation Reduction Act had nothing to do with inflation. Mildly shocked that Biden admitted it. “The most significant climate change law ever. And by the way, it is a $369 billion dollar bill. It’s called uh, we should have named it what it was.”pic.twitter.com/ZnTjgOKZXD — Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) September 5, 2024
Historic Automaker VW Weighs First Plant Closure Ever As China Encroaches On EV Market
https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/05/automaker-weighs-first-plant-closure-china-encroaches-ev-market/ By Owen Klinsky Volkswagen (VW) AG is considering shuttering factories in Germany as European car companies struggle to compete with Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers. The company has not closed a German plant in its entire 87-year history, but facing a slowdown in European car sales and stiff competition from Chinese EV maker BYD it is […]
World Economic Forum admits the obvious: WEF on their ‘My Carbon’ page declares: ‘COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility – A huge number of unimaginable restrictions for public health were adopted by billions of citizens across the world’
WEF, in their own words, on their “My Carbon” page: “COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility – A huge number of unimaginable restrictions for public health were adopted by billions of citizens across the world. There were numerous examples globally of maintaining social… pic.twitter.com/2G1vMjKdKj — Tom Nelson (@TomANelson) September 5, 2024 World Economic Forum […]