The Industrial Policy Debacle Governors in the Northeast are lobbying the White House to bail out their states’ offshore wind projects, which have hit a gale of ballooning costs, reports the WSJ. Danish developer Orsted is warning it may have to write down its projects off New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York. It’s […]
A High-Speed Collision with Reality
A Government Road Trip: Even Less Fun Than It Sounds. James Freeman in the WSJ explains Americans’ increasing distress over public charging stations. Becoming worse are EVs’ glitchy, inoperable equipment at the stations. The WSJ’s Jennifer Hiller reports: … the U.S. government plans to launch a $100 million effort to try to tackle the reliability […]
Clueless at the World Economic Forum (WEF)
No Idea about Net Zero On our way to Net Zero by 2050 … How do we know this? Cause everyone says so. And it’s not just “everyone.” Also committed are really, really smart people, like “essentially all of the colleges and universities,” as well as “elite institutions of every kind and sort,” Francis Menton […]
Waging War on Things That Work
Government Overreach How to make life miserable? In pursuit of a cleaner planet, here are some things that will make us all more equitably bleak. Snuff out incandescent lights for good has continued despite the clear preferences of consumers, particularly low-income Americans. In 2018, University of Michigan researchers found that high-efficiency LED light bulbs “are […]
The Magic of Free Wind
Originally posted on June 27, 2023. The Bumpy Road to Energy Utopia Wind Power: It’s clean, free, renewable. Go ahead, Google the subject, and you will find article upon article “claiming electricity from wind is now cheaper than electricity” from dirty ol’ fossil fuels. Then why, as the Manhattan Contrarian wonders, doesn’t some country somewhere […]
ENERGY FREEDOM ACT: Ted Cruz Introduces Bill for Energy Independence
UPDATE 6.22.23: A group of senators led by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) has introduced a bill to lower energy costs and spur American energy independence. Scott’s office released this statement: Today, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) joined eight of his Senate colleagues in introducing the Pay Less at the Pump Act. This legislation will lower energy prices […]
The Nickel Pickle from EVs
There are no solutions, only tradeoffs … Auto manufacturers and developers of batteries for EVs worried there would be a nickel shortage, especially after the move away from cobalt. Why move away from cobalt? When human rights groups and journalists reported on widespread child labor in cobalt operations and dangerous conditions faced by miners in […]
Auto Profitability Colliding with Low Emissions
From President Obama’s Task Force: At some point . . . the drive for profitability is likely to collide with [the government’s] fuel-efficiency and low-emission goals. Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. asks in the WSJ, “What did the drafters of the House Oversight Committee expect?” That the administration’s “54.5 miles per gallon mandate for 2025 was based on […]
Lawless Intrusion into Your Kitchen
Compromising Cuisine to the Cretins Although a federal appeals court in California ruled that local governments can’t ban gas stoves, some cities in California are still trying to ban gas stoves. According to James Freeman in the WSJ, a Palo Alto celebrity chef has called the bluff of progressive politicos at portions of Stanford University’s […]
Drinking the Kool-Aid
All Embracing, Embarrassing Groupthink In his latest post, Francis Manton compares the self-immolation of about 900 souls, who “somehow agreed to mass suicide” in the jungles of Jonestown, to the craziness of what is going on in the US auto industry. Collective Suicide and the Climate Cult Are you thinking that the Jonestown massacre was […]
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