Newsom’s 100% EV dream is stuck in traffic – ‘100% EV mandate a mirage on the road to nowhere’ as zero emission vehicle (ZEV) sales decline – ‘To meet that 35% goal next year, ZEV sales would have to increase by 68%’
Zero-emission vehicles include all-electric, plug-in hybrids and hydrogen vehicles. Intermediate goals are 35% ZEV sales by 2026 and 68% by 2035.
But according to the California New Car Dealers Association’s 2025 Auto Outlook Report for Q1, just 20.8% of new cars were ZEVs – a decline from 22% in 2024. To meet that 35% goal next year, ZEV sales would have to increase by 68%.
“Dealers sell what customers want to buy,” said Robb Hernandez, the association’s chairman and president of Camino Real Chevrolet. “No mandate can force consumers to choose otherwise.”
Joe Biden’s Energy Dept. Wasted $93 Billion in Bad Loans 76 Days Before Trump Took Office
https://needtoknow.news/2025/05/joe-bidens-energy-dept-wasted-93-billion-in-bad-loans-76-days-before-trump-took-office/ By PJ Media and Project Veritas During a blistering Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Republican Senator John Kennedy was visibly floored after Trump’s Energy Secretary, Christopher Wright, dropped a bombshell: the Department of Energy handed out a staggering $93 billion in loans and commitments during the final 76 days of the Biden administration, a figure […]
Climate Clergy Livestreams the Sads: ‘A 100-hour marathon of hand-wringing & bureaucratic bereavement’ over Trump budget cuts – Pining with ‘nostalgia for the heyday of bloated climate budgets’
Climate Clergy Livestreams the Sads By Charles Rotter Excerpt: It’s not often one encounters a spectacle so rich in irony and unintentional comedy that it practically writes its own parody. Yet here we are, watching the “Weather & Climate Livestream” (WCL) unfold—a 100-hour marathon of hand-wringing and bureaucratic bereavement that makes the average opera look stoic. […]
Watch: Morano on Newsmax TV talking U.S. Senate vote reversing gas-powered car bans: ‘This is a return to sanity in energy policy. We will no longer allow California to dictate for the rest of us what the environmental standards are going to be’
The Leventhal Report – Newsmax TV – Broadcast May 27, 2025 Rough Transcript: Marc Morano on California Waiver: “When I was working at the US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, under the Bush administration and later the Obama administration, this would always come up. We’ve been trying to defeat this California waiver for […]
Watch: Harvard Astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon: ‘Global warming is due to urban heat islands & the Sun, not CO2’ – Plus, watch panels of scientists dissent on man-made climate change
https://www.ceres-science.com/post/ceres-at-the-heritage-foundation-symposium Evaluating Climate Models and Observations: CERES presentations to The Heritage Foundation (May 13, 2025) On May 13, 2025, CERES co-team leaders, Dr. Willie Soon and Dr. Michael Connolly, both gave presentations at the Heritage Foundation’s one day symposium on “Is the Sky Falling? Reconsidering the Endangerment Finding”. This symposium was related to a book […]
Reliance on ‘Renewables’ Makes Widespread Blackout Nightmare More Likely
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2025/05/27/reliance_on_renewables_makes_widespread_blackout_nightmare_more_likely_1112884.html By Gary Abernathy This article was originally published here at The Empowerment Alliance and is re-published here at RealClearEnergy with permission. Imagine taking the subway to work when the train comes to a sudden halt halfway between scheduled stops. You pull out your smartphone to go online and see what the problem is, but you have […]
How California Has Destroyed Its Middle Class: ‘Ruling elites have priced out the middle class, replacing opportunity with oppression under the guise of equity & climate justice’
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/28/how-california-has-destroyed-its-middle-class/ California’s ruling elites have priced out the middle class, replacing opportunity with oppression under the guise of equity and climate justice. By Edward Ring California has declared war on its middle class, and the special interests controlling the state are doing everything they can to impose this punitive economic model on the rest of […]
Bjorn Lomborg: ‘Cheap’ solar and wind is a lie, green countries pay more!
https://nypost.com/2025/05/07/opinion/cheap-solar-and-wind-is-a-lie-green-countries-pay-more/ By Bjorn Lomborg Ask families in Germany and the UK what happens when more and more supposedly “cheap” solar and wind power is added to the national power mix, and they can tell you by looking at their utility bills: It gets far more expensive. The idea that power should get cheaper as we get more green […]
BBC’s ‘Executive Complaints Unit’ upholds reader’s complaint about article that ‘presented computer models as factual’
BBC Complaint Upheld By Paul Homewood https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czvvqdg8zxno The BBC’s Executive Complaint Unit has now upheld my complaint about the above report, which presented computer models as factual. Here is their formal response to me: Thank you for contacting the Executive Complaints Unit and asking it to consider your concerns about the above article on the BBC […]
Analysis: UN IPCC’s Emissions-Based Climate Model Errors So Massive They Eliminate Predictive Validity
New Analysis: IPCC’s Emissions-Based Climate Model Errors So Massive They Eliminate Predictive Validity By Kenneth Richard on 28. May 2025 “All in all, and contra to the IPCC reports, there is insufficient evidential basis for the use of carbon dioxide, et cetera, emissions – taken together, the IPCC’s Anthro – as climate policy variables.” − Green and Soon, 2025 […]