HotCold Take: We’re Losing The EV Race Because It’s Not About Climate Change

By William Teach November 6, 2025 – 3:00 pm

Nice try, Sparky

Opinion – We’re losing the EV race because we still think it’s about the environment

While Beijing built gigafactories, the United States debated tax credits. China saw electric vehicles as an industrial strategy — we saw them as climate policy. Now, China commands 60 percent of global battery electric vehicle sales and dominates the battery supply chain that will power tomorrow’s cars, trucks and buses. America barely reaches 16 percent. (snip)

That same year, Beijing launched “Made in China 2025,” an industrial policy to accelerate advanced manufacturing capabilities and reduce foreign dependence. But China’s leaders had identified “new energy vehicles” as a strategic sector long before that — as early as 2006 — and followed up with a National Energy-Saving and New Energy Vehicle Development Plan in 2012. When “Made in China 2025” elevated electric vehicles as a national priority, the industry exploded.

Meanwhile, the U.S. took a wrong turn. Instead of focusing on the electric vehicle as a breakthrough technology, Washington framed it as an environmental issue — one that remains politically divisive.

Beijing forced this on their citizens, in a much stronger manner than the US and state governments did. And, it wasn’t just Washington, it was the climate cult, most of whom didn’t buy EVs for themselves, because they are inconvenient.

Electric vehicles are not just clean cars, but rather computers on wheels, connected to data, chips and infrastructure. Losing the electric vehicle race means losing leverage over critical technology standards, supply chains and industrial jobs. This isn’t just about automakers; it’s about national power and the future of our tech ecosystem.

Sounds like a bunch of BS to me as the cult tries to reframe why they want to force US citizens into EVs

The U.S. must start treating electric vehicles as an advanced technology sector central to our economic competitiveness and innovation power. National leaders should move beyond purchase subsidies to focus on industrial build-out, software-defined vehicle research and development, and secure data infrastructure.

And we don’t have to do it alone. Allies from Japan to Germany face the same challenge. Joint battery production, shared industrial standards, and coordinated investment can strengthen all our industries — together.

Electric vehicles aren’t a climate accessory. They’re the next platform for global technological power. America can’t afford to sit in the passenger seat.

Nah, I’m good. Really, there’s been little change in guitars for a long, long time. Not a whole lot of difference between my 2020 Epiphone Les Paul Studio and the original Les Paul created. Don’t need all sorts of stuff. Works just fine. And I’m more than happy with my Accord Hybrid. If you want an EV, get one. Stop trying to force others into them.

Oh, and then there’s the next story on Yahoo News

EV drivers could face new tax in Budget

Drivers of electric vehicles (EVs) could face the prospect of a new tax in this month’s Budget.

With pressure on the chancellor to find tens of billions of pounds in additional revenue, the BBC understands there have been “conversations” within government about the possibility of a new levy on EVs.

A government spokesperson told the BBC: “Fuel duty covers petrol and diesel, but there’s no equivalent for electric vehicles. We want a fairer system for all drivers.”

“Buy an EV and you’ll save money over driving petrol vehicles. Oh, and here’s a new tax to erase those savings.” When government talks about “fairer”, watch your wallet. And freedom.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 6, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are trees falling due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Last Refuge, with a post on the feds busting a bunch of Mississippi cops for running drugs from Mexico.

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Surprise: Jewish NYC Fire Chief Resigns Day After Mamdani Wins

By William Teach November 6, 2025 – 10:30 am

I wonder why

From the article

Fire Commissioner Robert Tucker handed in his resignation Wednesday morning — just one day after Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor, The Post has learned.

Tucker, a proud Jewish philanthropist and businessman, informed Mayor Eric Adams that he would step down from the role he has held for just over 12 months on December 19, according to sources.

The FDNY boss was concerned about Mamdani’s anti-Israel hostility, with a source noting that Tucker’s support of the Jewish state “does not align with the new mayor.” (snip)

“I will leave this critical role on December 19, 2025. Between now and then, I will continue to lead the greatest fire department in the world and will ensure an orderly transition.”

What often happens with people like this is they wait and see if the new incoming mayor wants them to stay on the job, because they are good at it. And Tucker was very good at the job, settling things down after a tough time with the previous commissioner. Tucker knows Mamdani is an Israel and Jew hater

The Mayor-elect’s transition team pointed to comments he made during a Wednesday press conference when asked about Tucker’s exit.

“I am willing to consider anyone to work in my City Hall so long as they are committed to working for my administration and to delivering on an agenda to lower costs for New Yorkers in the most expensive city in the United States,” Mamdani told reporters.

Anyone who doesn’t want to fall in line with his radical agenda, including the radical Islam agenda, the Jew hatred, can leave. We can be sure that lots of members of the NYPD will leave; will we see what happens in the FDNY. There are reportedly about 200 employees who are Jewish. And surely many who are not on board with the hardcore Mamdani agenda.

Don’t forget

Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting largest exodus in history: poll

Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are prepared to bolt from the Big Apple if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday’s mayoral race — potentially setting the stage for the largest population flight in US history, an alarming new poll warned early Monday.

Around 765,000 people of the 8.4 million residents who call New York City home are preparing to leave, with about 9% of New Yorkers sharing that they would “definitely” leave the city if Mamdani is elected the 111th mayor, the Daily Mail reported, citing a survey conducted by J.L. Partners.

Another 25% of New Yorkers — about 2.12 million — said they would “consider” packing up and leaving.

Among high earners, 7% of those making over $250,000 a year said they would definitely flee.

What do the numbers actually end up looking like? I guess we’ll see. Hopefully the liberals who are not Mamdani supporters will flee to other liberal areas, not Southern states like during COVID, bringing their leftist opinions with that.

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Weird: COP30 Host Brazil Drilling For Oil In Amazon

By William Teach November 6, 2025 – 7:00 am

The NY Times is shocked over this

Save the Amazon or Drill for Oil? Brazil Says It Can Do Both.

When President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil returned to power, he had an ambitious goal: restoring his country’s image as a champion of climate action.

He vowed to slash Brazil’s emissions of planet-warming gases, raise global funds to tackle the climate crisis and curb the rampant destruction of the Amazon rainforest, just as he had done in his first two terms in office.

Hosting this month’s U.N. climate summit, which for the first time is being held in the Amazon, was to serve as a sort of victory lap, offering Mr. Lula, a leftist, a chance to cement his nation’s return to the world stage as a leading voice on climate diplomacy.

Does this including cutting down lots of the Amazon to build a road to transport the 40K+ people coming to COP30 via fossil fueled flights, then have them drive on said road in fossil fueled vehicles?

Yet three years after returning to office, Mr. Lula heads into the world’s most important climate talks with a more checkered track record.

On his watch, Brazil has succeeded in dramatically reducing deforestation in the Amazon, which plays a crucial role in absorbing the greenhouse gases warming the planet. But Brazil has also angered climate advocates by trying to loosen environmental laws and allowing, just weeks before the summit, oil drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River for the first time.

“This sends a really bad signal to the world,” said Marcio Astrini, executive secretary of the Climate Observatory, a coalition of environmental groups. “It’s impossible to imagine a worse moment for this.”

I’d think the clearcutting and 40K+ taking fossil fueled trips would be a bad signal. That’s just me.

Mr. Lula has defended the decision to drill near the Amazon, arguing that oil revenues will help Brazil finance its transition to cleaner forms of energy.

But the controversy threatens to tarnish Brazil’s image abroad and weaken its clout in the climate negotiations, known this year as COP30, at a pivotal moment, as nations prepare to debate moving away from fossil fuels to limit rising global temperatures.

Making climate cult signals is easy: actually having affordable, dependable energy is hard, hence the petroleum drilling. Don’t forget, roughly 50% of every barrel is used for around 700 products other than fuels and oils.

And Brazil’s seemingly contradictory approach underscores a key challenge facing Mr. Lula and other leaders around the world: How can countries balance environmental ambitions with the economic and political realities they face at home?

They can’t. But, the big shots do not care, because none o the policies they push hurt their own lives.

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People’s Republik Of Colorado Passes Tax Hitting Those Making $300K And Up

By William Teach November 6, 2025 – 6:45 am

Next year’s headline from Credentialed Media outlets: “Colorado tax revenue has plummeted as people making $300K plus abandon the state”

Colorado voters overwhelmingly approve new tax revenue to bolster funding for free school meals program

unintended consequencesColorado voters on Tuesday gave resounding approval to twin tax measures that will boost funding for the state’s free school meals program, according to unofficial election results.

With more than 1.1 million votes reported — representing more than a quarter of the state’s total active registered voters — as of 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Proposition MM was passing with more than 57% of the vote, while Proposition LL was passing with over 63%. That represents a margin of victory of more than 14 percentage points and 27 percentage points, respectively.

To increase revenue, Proposition MM will further raise income taxes on households making over $300,000 or more by limiting standard and itemized tax deductions. That will equate to an average annual tax increase of $327 for single filers and $574 increase for joint filers. An estimated 200,000 households, roughly 6% of households filing taxes, will be affected.

The measure is projected to raise as much as $95 million more a year for the school meals program.

“Why are all these Coloradons making $299,000 a year now?”

Proposition LL will allow the state to keep additional tax revenue for the program that would otherwise be refunded to taxpayers making over $300,000. Under the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR, the state must ask voters to allow it to keep tax money for programs when that revenue is more than what was initially needed.

Without the additional revenue, school districts would have been forced to limit free meals to only certain students starting next year. Some schools are also worried about losing their ability to run a lunch program as a result.

So, basically, the PRC schools will be acting as parents for all students, regardless of whether they need the meal or not. Seriously, only 11% of PRC kids are at or below poverty level. Their parents can feed them, and do. This is about indoctrination, as well as knowing that the money is going to be going into a lot of friendly pockets.

You just know that a lot of these same Democrats who voted for these ballot initiatives and are above $300K will look to hide their income, maybe taking more in revenue that would be capital gains, keeping them under the $300K. Or, just leave the state, and take their businesses with them. You can bet the politicians will hide their money.

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AP: You Can Totally Reduce Your Pet’s Carbon Footprint Or Something

By William Teach November 5, 2025 – 4:37 pm

Even most Warmists will probably agree to leave the pets out of cult business

Let’s look at the AP article

The whole “pets are family members” idea isn’t just a sweet sentiment. Data shows that pet owners are increasingly buying food that resembles their own diets.

The trend toward refrigerated, “fresh” or even “human-grade” pet food can come with a price beyond the pet food budget.

One of the most climate intensive decisions we make is whether to own a pet. It’s for the same reason that humans have a big impact: They eat every day. And most of them eat meat. The environmental impact of meat includes the land the animal lived on, the food it ate, the waste it generated and other factors.

“What else do pets do? We have to feed them. I think that that’s why it’s number one,” said Allison Reser, director of sustainability and innovation at the Pet Sustainability Coalition.

Cultists

The marketing of higher-quality pet food suggests that it’s healthier.

But there isn’t much evidence to suggest refrigerated, fresh or human-grade food leads to better pet health outcomes, according to Alison Manchester, assistant clinical sciences professor at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine.

“I think a lot of it is playing on marketing and treating pets as members of the family,” said Manchester.

Billy Nicholles, pet food researcher with Bryant Research, said the trend of using human-grade meat in pet food increases its climate impact because pets aren’t just eating animal parts that would have otherwise gone unused.

“We definitely can’t dismiss these impacts altogether by just saying these are the offcuts, these are environmentally negligible,” he said.

Piss off. And that article keeps going and going. It’s not news, it’s simply doomsday cult doctrine.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 5, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is the North Pole melting from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on crazy people being dangerous.

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Media Seems Upset Over Anti-Semitism Investigations At Colleges

By William Teach November 5, 2025 – 10:30 am

See, the problem is not the Jew hatred, it’s investigating the Jew hatred

Surge in antisemitism investigations at US universities after October 7 attacks, data shows

US government investigations into universities over antisemitism allegations surged following the 7 October 2023 attacks and Israel’s subsequent war in Gaza, with more investigations open in the last two months of that year than in the two decades prior, according to a report published on Monday that was shared exclusively with the Guardian.

The data, compiled by the Middle East Studies Association and the American Association of University Professors and relying on publicly available records, offers a detailed account of how landmark civil rights legislation – and particularly Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act – has become a primary tool to restrict speech on campus.

The provision, intended to prevent discrimination in educational institutions, was used by the Biden administration to target pro-Palestinian activism and later became the preferred weapon of the Trump administration to threaten universities with billions in funding cuts and impose its ideological priorities on issues that go well beyond antisemitism.

“In effect, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is no longer being used to address racial discrimination in higher education,” said Asl? Bâli, president of the Middle East Studies Association. “Instead, Title VI has been repurposed as part of the administration’s broader effort to remake higher education in line with its rightwing political and cultural agenda.”

So, you have an Islamist group, MESA, compiling data about their people being investigated for Jew hatred, and let’s not forget that it isn’t just mean words, which colleges usually crack down on. It was harassment and threats. And they are trying to use the CRA to protect that Jew hatred, while also being the first to scream “Islamaphobia” the other way. Let’s find out more about them

While MESA promotes itself as a “non-political organization,” its membership is dominated by anti-America, anti-Israel leftists who are apologists for Islamic terrorism. For example, on February 22, 2002, MESA issued a statement on behalf of its Board of Directors in support of Sami Al-Arian, the University of South Florida professor who was once the North American leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

There are lots of links to Islamic radicals.

The complaints paint a picture of the deep rifts on US campuses over the war in Gaza, and capture the inflammatory language and accusations that have dominated university life for the past two years. They also point to a divide over the definition of antisemitism, with the number of critiques of Israel and Zionism dwarfing derogatory speech or discriminatory actions targeting Jews broadly.

In one anonymous complaint, filed days after 7 October 2023, an account was submitted through an education department online form, accusing a professor at Cornell University of spreading “hate and lies” and “pushing people towards violence”.

There wouldn’t be a need for complaints if college students weren’t being Jew haters, calling for the destruction of Israel, and supporting Hamas, right?

“Some complaints are just rants with almost no evidence or detail,” noted Darryl Li, a professor at the University of Chicago and co-author of the report. “Government civil rights enforcement is now being driven by the equivalent of a YouTube comment section.”

And how many times have there been complaints where the student actually manufactured the hate crime and the college went crazy on investigating, not too mention the news media, and sometimes the FBI? Here we could actually see and hear the hatred, because it was on “film”.

In another case, the parent of a student at Eastern Washington University filed a one-paragraph complaint with the department, claiming their daughter felt “unsafe” on campus because of frequent pro-Palestinian protests that the parent said were “hateful”, claiming without evidence that students chanted “Jews are committing genocide” during protests. “The Political Science Department has scheduled public talks that quickly get out of hand and are taken over by radicals who endorse Hamas and accuse Jews – not Israelis – of being baby killers and murderers,” the parent elaborated, attaching a photo of a poster for a campus event titled The Massacre in Gaza: Security or Genocide? “Please investigate the university,” the complaint concluded.

Yeah, we saw that stuff on video, as well. The gaslighting from the groups and the UK Guardian is amazing.

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Good News: Amish Are Totally Getting Into Electric Bikes

By William Teach November 5, 2025 – 7:15 am

Good for them

Amish communities are using a surprising kind of vehicle to travel long distances: ‘They can just hop on’

In a surprising twist that blends tradition with technology, some Amish communities in Iowa are embracing electric bicycles as a practical and sustainable way to travel longer distances — no horses required.

For generations, the Amish have been known for their reliance on horse-drawn buggies and their cautious approach to modern conveniences. But in places such as Kalona and Bloomfield, e-bikes are quietly joining the mix, offering a simpler, faster, and more accessible way to get around without compromising core values.

According to the Iowa Capital Dispatch, e-bikes are gaining traction among New Order Amish, a more moderate sect within the community that allows limited use of modern tools. Local residents say the change has been gradual but significant: What began as a few bicycles rolling down the road has grown into a small movement of Amish riders zipping among farms, markets, and neighboring towns.

The appeal is clear. E-bikes make it easier to navigate Iowa’s hilly terrain and gravel roads, reducing dependence on horses while saving time and energy. Riders can cover miles more efficiently, especially for errands, family visits, or work in nearby towns. Some have even added baskets or trailers to carry groceries, tools, and children — a modern twist on the classic buggy.

Well, good for them!

Beyond convenience, the shift also carries environmental benefits. E-bikes produce no direct pollution and use only a fraction of the energy required to power a car or small tractor. As rural communities adapt to changing transportation needs, the Amish’s embrace of low-impact technology offers a reminder that sustainable progress doesn’t have to mean abandoning tradition.

Everyday commuters are also increasingly hopping on the trend, making their travel times to work faster, cheaper, and greener.

You had to know this was going to end up in the climate cult, right?

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Gavin Newson’s Proposed Budget Spends $10 Billion In Healthcare For Illegals

By William Teach November 5, 2025 – 7:00 am

I was told by Democrats and the Credentialed Media that government is not providing healthcare/insurance to illegals

California Will Spend 28x More On Healthcare For Illegals Than State Law Enforcement

surprise surprise surpriseCalifornia expects to spend 28 times more on health benefits for illegal aliens than on state police in the 2025-2026 budget period.

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s final budget allocates $348 million to law enforcement while the state’s own budget experts in an October report estimate the tab for giving full health benefits for illegal aliens amounts to $10 billion. The new report by the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) reveals a 35% higher figure than the $7.4 billion cost Newsom estimated in his January 2025 budget proposal.

California’s joint state-federal Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, provides comprehensive coverage for doctor’s visits, medications, and dental and vision care for 1.7 million illegal aliens, who represent 11% of the program’s enrollees, according to the LAO report. Illegal immigrants’ health benefits will consume a fourth of the Medi-Cal money flowing from state coffers.

Expansions of the policy to include illegal aliens of any age on Medi-Cal drove spending on the program skyward to more than double the initial estimates, LAO’s report says.

While on paper the state must only use its own funds for illegal immigrants, in practice, California obtains federal Medicaid dollars for its pet priorities through complex accounting.

Obvioiusly, Newsom’s own budget and California’s spending is fake news. It can’t be real. I was told so.

I wonder if the cops in the People’s Republik of California will finally say they’ve had enough, and retire, retire early, or just head to other states. And the PRC will start getting even more illegals streaming into the state, causing the actual costs to skyrocket for healthcare, insurance, food, and more.

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