John Klar, Author at Granite Grok

If Biden’s EPA Really Cares about Pollution…

April 27, 2024 John Klar

A proposed EPA rule mandating more stringent effluent limitations for nitrogen, and adding phosphorus for the first time, would impose high costs on approximately 850 of the nation’s meat and poultry processing (MPP) facilities. Some processors will be compelled to close due to prohibitive costs. Meanwhile, the Biden administration’s vaunted PFAS reporting rules merely monitor ongoing water … Read more

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Transgender Surgery Is the Lobotomy of the 21st Century

April 25, 2024 John Klar

Psychology is a “science” that studies human behavior but is itself morally bankrupt. That is, psychology is unable to scientifically define normality. It can’t. “Normal” depends on what the society (through “norms”) or the patient views as morally correct.

EPA Rules on Forever Chemicals Will Take Forever to Do Anything

April 21, 2024 John Klar

Biden’s EPA has announced new rules for Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), more commonly known as forever chemicals since they do not break down in the environment and build up in human bodies.

Gender Indoctrination in Vermont schools

April 21, 2024 John Klar

“As a matter of law, young children cannot properly assess the risks of taking testosterone, let alone surgically mutilating their bodies and embracing infertility.”

Progressive EV Mandates and Economic Reality

April 20, 2024 John Klar

President Joe Biden advertised himself as a uniter of Americans but instead seems to have embarked on a crusade to unite government with industry. His disregard for the rule of law parallels an equally dangerous abandonment of fundamental free market principles via government fiat.

Climate Farming Dreams are a Nightmare for Diners

April 17, 2024 John Klar

A recent study of Burmese pythons concludes that snake meat is more efficient to produce than traditional livestock, making it a viable protein alternative to cows or pigs. Given the primeval human aversion to snakes, this menu item may be a harder sell even than crickets or faux-meat nuggets. However, the omissions and biases inherent … Read more

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New ‘Green’ Building Code to Dominate Housing Construction

April 16, 2024 John Klar

The announcement of a “model” international building code might understandably elicit yawns. However, the 2024 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) is cause for Americans to bolt upright and pay close attention. The vain imaginings of corporate and NGO “stakeholders” who propose to completely dominate American housing construction in the name of saving the planet promise … Read more

Climate Fear, Rewilding, the Green New Deal, and Other Absurdities

April 16, 2024 John Klar

One of the most prescient, intelligent, passionate voices defending rural lands and rural agriculture has been lifelong Democrat Wendell Berry (though Wendell will tell you that he has no allegiance to any one party). The current Democratic Party appears to have no use for the considered wisdom of this Kentucky farmer, just as it has abandoned Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Jefferson, and the Kennedy legacy.

New SEC Climate Rules Are Burdensome – But Are They Constitutional?

April 13, 2024 John Klar

Controversial new SEC Rules compel corporations to report the climate impact of each step of the supply chain. It’s complex, convoluted, and confusing at best – but is it constitutional? That was the question asked during a powerful hearing on March 18, 2024, before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Regulations.

Inflation Nation: Will America’s Economic Woes Worsen in 2024?

April 11, 2024 John Klar

In his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden claimed US inflation is a result of price-gouging by corporate bogeymen. Recent statistics suggest other causes, some of which will likely persist through this election year – and the president’s narrative is not likely to hold up as rents, wages, and taxes rise, all increases that are hard to blame on corporate America.

Fleets of EV Trucks Are an Impossible Dream

March 31, 2024 John Klar

California has led the nation in a climate-saving push for EV tractor-trailer trucks to replace diesel power. Fiction eventually runs aground on reality, in this case, the economic, environmental, and scientific facts that the California Legislature ignored when it implemented impossible mandates for gleaming fleets of EV trucks.

Why Famine and Food Shortages Grow More Likely Each Day — In America!

March 29, 2024 John Klar

With a constant stream of Hollywood end-of-the-world calamity blockbuster movies, Americans are generally distracted from the real-life disaster scenario that threatens us. Growing dependency on processed foods, often shipped long distances via crammed distribution systems, has created a vulnerability to food supply disruption unparalleled in human history.

The Multicultural Destruction of Vermont

March 29, 2024 John Klar

A person from New York recently purchased the 54-acre property next door to the house I rent in Brookfield, Vermont. I contacted him and told him I’d keep an eye on the place and ask him whether I could pasture my sheep and/or cows on the fields that he now owns (originally part of the farm we rent).

Cows on Trial in New York

March 20, 2024 John Klar

New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed suit against the world’s largest beef producer, JBS USA Food Company, claiming its false advertising of climate-remediation efforts induced consumers to purchase products that are not environmentally friendly.

Night Cap: Novel Lithium Extraction Method Unveiled in Utah

March 19, 2024 John Klar

A revolutionary new technology to extract precious lithium from brine water is poised to be deployed in the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The element lithium is essential to electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing, for batteries and eventual grid storage capacity.

ICYMI – Why Food Is About To Get Very Expensive

March 17, 2024March 17, 2024 John Klar

Americans are witnessing frighteningly high rates of inflation—gasoline prices have increased by 10 cents a day lately, it seems. Interest rates are rising and set to continue shooting up, compounding home affordability hampered by a seismic spike in home and land prices.

Nigth Cap: Fur Trapping to Save the Planet!

March 16, 2024 John Klar

A recent study of beaver dams in northwestern Alaska concludes that the explosive repopulation of Arctic terrain by beavers is thawing large areas of tundra and releasing climate-destroying methane.

Cows ranch cattle Photo by Stijn te Strake on Unsplash

Night Cap: In Defense of Livestock and the Errant Motives of Those Who Attack Cows….

March 9, 2024 John Klar

Climate “warriors” and animal rights activists are out in far-left field on cows and livestock farming. The attacks against cows and agriculture have become so ubiquitous that a nearly universal brainwashing has succeeded in conditioning consumers and academics to simply believe cows are bad for the planet—all cows, all the time.

Biden Winning in 2024 is More Urgent Than … Climate Change.

March 9, 2024 John Klar

After investing billions of taxpayer dollars in electric vehicles (EVs), the Biden administration is making a sharp dogleg on ambitious targets for implementation. In an effort to court United Auto Workers (UAW) ahead of the 2024 election, President Joe Biden is now seeking a bevy of delays in his climate change plans.

How a ’70s Punk Rock Band Predicted Modern America

March 27, 2024March 9, 2024 John Klar

America’s surreal course under social justice dogma has veered the nation away from its Judeo-Christian, covenantal foundations toward a neo-Marxist destruction that is targeting all things good.