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MACDONALD: EV ‘Popularity’ Depends on This

August 3, 2026 Steve MacDonald

If you read the hundreds of pieces of content I’ve published on the subject, you might come away thinking I hate Electric Vehicles, but I love Golf Carts. A few beers or a bottle of Jack, a few joints (replaced these days with “gummies”, perhaps), and the fun never ends. I have a different relationship … Read more

Is Legislating EVs Like Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

December 27, 2023 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).

GM Dumps the Chevy Volt While Saying Cars Like the Volt are its Future

November 29, 2018 Steve MacDonald

If electric vehicles are the car of the future, then the Chevy Volt was GM’s walk before you crawl. Or something. It was too expensive, only sold “well” (at all) when you and I were subsidizing it, and it was too small*. With the free money driving off into the sunset Electric and hybrid car … Read more

Blogline of the Day – a take off on Joe Biden

September 26, 2018November 3, 2012 Skip

Joe Biden, running mate of Obama, is oft heard to say “Obama is dead and GM is alive”. Over at The Corner: “Chris Stevens is dead and the UAW’s pension plan is alive.“ That would be Ambassador Chris Stevens to Libya, murdered in Benghazi. And the GM UAW union workers’ pensions are alive because the … Read more

Taxpayers Now Out 25 Billion

September 26, 2018August 15, 2012 Steve MacDonald

The Government Buy-up and Bail-out of General Motors saved union jobs while arbitrarily eliminating tens of thousands of non-union jobs at dealerships, put taxpayers on the hook, and at present will cost us at least 25 Billion in losses as the value of the automaker “we own” a part of continues to decline. Had they … Read more

Paid Back the Auto-Bailout You Say?

September 26, 2018April 9, 2012 Steve MacDonald

Kevin A. Hassett at AEI has an article (also available in the most recent print edition of National Review) in which he addresses the many fictions of the Obama auto-bailout. You can read it here, but what caught my eye was the nifty graphic that went with it. It suggests what Hassett articulates in his … Read more