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Lessons From the Eclipse – Electrifying Everything is Dangerously Asinine.

April 12, 2024

by Rob Roper

The total solar eclipse this week was totally cool, for sure. How lucky we Vermonters were that we could just walk outside, take in this once in a generation natural phenomenon, then pop back into our houses to resume whatever it was we were doing twenty minutes earlier. Not so for the estimated 160,000 tourists … Read more

Daily Mail Report Looks Like a “List” of US States You Should Get the Hell Out Of …

April 9, 2024April 7, 2024

by Steve MacDonald

Perhaps without intending to, a recent article in the UK Daily Mail reported on a list of states that Real™ Americans need to either take back now or make plans to exit soon!

Fleets of EV Trucks Are an Impossible Dream

March 31, 2024

by 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.

It Hertz! – Rental Car CEO ‘Resigns’ After EV Fleet Fail

March 21, 2024

by Steve MacDonald

Hertz Rental Cars jumped the shark on EVs, going all in on fleet expansion, complete with ads featuring Tom Brady to promote the product. Not long after, Hertz discovered – you’d think they’d have done due diligence in advance – that EVs cost more, more to maintain, and are … unreliable. We knew this.

No iCar In Your Future – Apple Cuts Plug-In Cord After Wasting Billions on Titan EV Project

March 2, 2024

by Steve MacDonald

Members of the Apple cult who were hoping to one day drive their iteration of an Electric Vehicle will be disappointed. After dropping billions into an effort to one day compete with Tesla Motors, The Tech Giant has cut the plug-in cord.

Has The “Success” of EV’s Caused Their Collapse?

February 18, 2024

by Steve MacDonald

The Electric Vehicle (EV) has always been a Climate Pootemkin Villiage. The mirage of climate activism incarnate. Unaffordable but to a few who expect those beneath them to follow their example. A class that forced car makers to build them and taxpayers to subsidize something with significant manufacturing downsides to the planet.

The Demise of the Electric Vehicle

February 6, 2024

by John Klar

The nation’s recent deep freeze stranded many expensive electric vehicles (EVs) with drained batteries, often in front of charging stations equally disabled by the cold. Warmer areas like California, where some 39% of EV car owners reside, do not abuse their batteries with the harsh seasonal winters that threaten many regions of the nation and … Read more

Ford Forced to Cut EV Production As America Runs Low On People Who Can Afford Virtue Signal Mobiles

January 27, 2024

by Steve MacDonald

Electric Vehicles have an opportunity to replace the Edsel as the historic reference for transportation marketing failure. The Edsel was “overhyped, unattractive (distinguished by a vertical grille said to resemble a horse collar^[2]), and low quality.” It was also introduced during a crappy economy.

Stop Forcing EVs Down Our Throats

January 21, 2024

by Rob Roper

VT Digger recently posted an article lamenting that we Vermonters are not heeling to the mandate to transition our vehicles to electric. Alas, “As of October 2023, there were just under 11,000 plug-in EVs registered in the state, David Roberts, a consultant for the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, told the House Transportation Committee.

Bear Pond Conservative Chronicles: Why Do Democrats Think Maine Is Ready For EVs

July 15, 2024January 16, 2024

by Ray Cardello

With nearly 36,000 square miles, you can put the other five New England states inside Maine’s borders. Madawaska is a little town located at the top of Aroostook County and is the northernmost town in New England. It is home to around 3,800 residents.

It “Hertz” – Rental Company to Dump Thousands of Electric Vehicles

March 18, 2024January 13, 2024

by Steve MacDonald

We can only hope that the other faulty pillars of leftism collapse this year the way the Electric Vehicle market has in the past year. Dealers don’t want them. Inventory is backing up. Manufacturers are losing billions, and now Hertz is not only not going to buy 100,000 of them, it is dumping many of the EVs it has.

Is Legislating EVs Like Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

December 27, 2023

by Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire has at least ten proposed bills related to Electric Vehicles for the upcoming 2024 Session. We’ve also got legislation to prohibit parking gas vehicles in EV charging spaces or parking EVs in a parking garage, infrastructure, rebates, and state fleet use (or prohibition).

Night Cap: The Economy and Our Freedoms Are Not To Be Abused, but That’s Exactly What Joe Biden Is Doing

December 18, 2023

by Ray Cardello

This Green Wave led by Biden, Kerry, Yellen, and anyone else who has bent at the waist in front of Xi Jinping is not only about taking our beloved gas-driven vehicles from us but more about controlling us like a good Border Collie controls sheep.

snow ice cold original Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

‘Experts’ in Norway Bought 183 EV Buses … That Don’t Work Very Well When It’s Cold

December 14, 2023

by Steve MacDonald

We have readers in Norway, but none appear to be the “experts” making public transportation decisions in Oslo. The City spent €100 million on 183 Electric Buses that work great in the summer but not so much in the winter.

Consumer Reports: EV Owners Say Their Cars are Unreliable

December 13, 2023December 13, 2023

by Steve MacDonald

From “the things we already knew” file, Consumer Reports has found that “Electric vehicle owners continue to report far more problems with their vehicles than owners of conventional cars or hybrids, according to their newly released annual car reliability survey.”

Biden Whines About Republican Opposition to his Green Agenda, But Americans Agree with Them

December 2, 2023

by Op-Ed

Mr. Biden blasted MAGA Republicans for opposing his Green Energy Agenda, but there’s a problem; a new survey shows Americans really don’t want to be a part of his green agenda.

Is It Just Me, Or Are There Fewer EV Car Commercials Airing?

November 24, 2023

by Steve MacDonald

I like to sneer and make snide comments when commercials for Electric Vehicles interrupt whatever I happen to be streaming. My wife has learned to ignore them, and I am trying to keep those opinions to myself, but recently, within the past few weeks, I’ve had no need.

Transfering Wealth From Poor People to Rich People Under the Guise of Saving the World

November 18, 2023

by John Klar

A new Texas study calculates the full costs of operating electric vehicles (EVs) approach the equivalent of $17.33 per gallon. Doubtless, battles will be waged over the accuracy of these calculations.

solar panel solar farm Photo by American Public Power Association on Unsplash

As EV Makers Discover There is No There There Solar Stocks are Crashing

November 10, 2023

by Steve MacDonald

The parallel media has been reporting on several instances where adopters of the all-electric future appear to have swallowed a red pill. Net Zero is not so much an emissions goal as a result for investors, so they are talking their green elsewhere.

The Left’s Green Dreams Are Going Up In Smoke

October 31, 2023

by Op-Ed

One of the textbook marketing flops of all time was the Ford Edsel sedan, which was heralded as the hot new car in the late 1950s. All the automotive experts and Ford executives said it was a can’t-miss. Henry Ford (the car was named after his son) guaranteed hundreds of thousands of sales.