Every bad thing that’s happening right now is the result of Democrat stupidity, either direct or indirect. In fact, some of them are the result of cascading stupidity that just keeps ricocheting against other examples of former stupidity lying around. For instance, look at energy costs. The original anti-petroleum executive orders, like cancelling the pipeline and cancelling the exploration leases got the ball rolling and started gas prices soaring. And then for laughs Mushmouth Joe decided he wanted to fight a war against Russia the largest provider of energy to the West. Then just to make doubly sure there was no way to undo the damage, he blew up the Nord Stream pipelines that provide Russian natural gas to Europe. And when he insulted the Saudi foreign minister a year ago, he set himself up for OPEC to kick him while he is down. That’s why they just announced a three million barrel a day reduction in oil output just to make sure prices stay high.
It’s true. No one should underestimate Biden’s talent for hapless destruction. But there could be a silver lining in this whole situation. The grownups won’t be able to fix any of the stuff Biden has mucked up for a pretty long time. He’s still got over two years to destroy our economy. That might be long enough for the people who believe in green energy to get a real good look at what life in a green economy is actually like.
The people in Texas got a taste of it last year when the grid failed because of dependence on wind turbines that froze up. There’s nothing scarier than losing power in a real winter storm when you don’t have your own generator and emergency fuel. Sitting in the dark with no heat and no water is a bad feeling. And if it becomes a recurring thing it will disrupt your life. So much so that you’ll go out and install an expensive generator just to get back to a sense of normalcy.
Now imagine if you’re a greenie and you’ve always felt that gasoline and oil and natural gas are the devil’s own brew. But then imagine if it turns out that your very own gas-powered generator is the only thing saving you from misery. You might start to get confused about where your priorities were with respect to this whole climate thing.
And the first time one of those cute little electric cars gets stuck in a snow storm and runs out of charge on the road and has to be recharged by a gas-powered generator that a gas-powered truck had to haul out to do the job maybe the Gaia worshipper who gets stuck might start to put the dots together and realize he could just skip a step and buy a gas-powered car.
Of course, these are feeble hopes. Gaia worship is a cult that seemed to get started in fifth grade when the proselytizing starts. Really the only hope is that most of these people will need to freeze to death in a sudden storm that takes out the power and leaves them inside their well-insulated walls as the temperature reaches minus twenty. Hopefully they’ll be too eco-pure to ask to stay with their climate denier neighbor with the 25-kW generator and large oil tank. After all you just can’t virtue signal too much when you’re an eco-warrior.
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>And the first time one of those cute little electric cars gets stuck in a snow storm and runs out of charge on the road< I lived on the Northern Tier (North Dakota, Champlain Valley of NY/Vermont) for over 30 years. double-digit below-zero winters were the norm. I know some very long, lonely stretches of highway where an EV would be at a serious disadvantage. I would really like to see an honest evaluation of range and battery performance at minus-20F. Just how much of that “300-mile” range will you get at night, with the headlights, heater, wipers, and other… Read more »
Ed I liked what you wrote so I gave it its own post. Someday I have to convince you to write some longer things for the site. I think the readers would enjoy it.
As someone who still lives in ND, there is no way in H-E-double-hockey-sticks that I would ever by an EV and take it out of town. In winter it would be suicide. The state is looking at ways to improve charging for EVs in rural areas, though I don’t think that should be its job. As for the range, it goes down considerably in cold weather (I always get a kick out of articles that claim you don’t need to let a modern fuel injected vehicle warm up when it’s cold out. If you dig down into their “data”, their… Read more »
I can’t make up my mind whether they’re mocking us or if they’re really that stupid. I understand to someone who spent his formative years in Hawaii as Barry did, the concept of twenty below zero Fahrenheit is just an abstraction. But to anyone for whom it has been a matter of life and death, talking about depending on windmills and batteries is idiotic. We’ve built a civilization on petroleum. If we’re thinking about what comes next we don’t want it to be something that forces us to return to the sixteenth century in terms of abundance and reliability.