Surprisingly, New Report Shows EVs Are Rather Expensive Vs Gas Vehicles

By William Teach October 26, 2023 – 3:38 pm

And what happens why you take away subsidies and/or tax incentives?

New report unmasks true costs of electric vehicle mandates: ‘Remain more expensive’

Electric vehicleA sweeping first-of-its-kind analysis published by think tank Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) concludes that electric vehicles (EV) would cost tens of thousands of dollars more if not for generous taxpayer-funded incentives.

According to the TPPF report — authored by energy experts Jason Isaac and Brent Bennett — the average model year 2021 EV would cost approximately $48,698 more to own over a 10-year period without the staggering $22 billion in taxpayer-funded handouts that the government provides to electric car manufacturers and owners. The analysis factors in federal fuel efficiency programs, electric grid strain, and direct state and federal subsidies.

“It is not an overstatement to say that the federal government is subsidizing EVs to a greater degree than even wind and solar electricity generation and embarking on an unprecedented endeavor to remake the entire American auto industry,” the report states. “Despite these massive incentives, EVs are receiving a tepid response from the majority of Americans who cannot shoulder their higher cost.” (snip)

The report determined that, thanks to a special multiplier that has existed for more than two decades, EVs receive roughly seven times more credits under federal fuel efficiency programs than they provide in actual fuel economy benefits. That figure, the total regulatory credits from federal and state fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions standards, amounts to an average of $27,881 per vehicle for EV makers.

Of course, most people cannot really afford EVs and/or they are just too inconvenient for their lives. Even AOC stated that most EVs other than her Tesla would be a pain in the behind. And as domestic auto makers come to terms with their unions it will drive prices up higher

Further, the analysis calculated the socialized cost of EV charging stations’ strain on the U.S. electric grid amounts to an average of $11,833 per EV over 10 years. Such costs are shouldered by utility ratepayers and taxpayers, many of whom may not own an EV.

“Without increased and sustained government favors, EVs will remain more expensive than ICEVs for many years to come,” it states. “Hence why, even with these subsidies, EVs have been challenging for dealers to sell and why basic economic realities indicate that the Biden administration’s dream of achieving 100% EVs by 2040 will never become a reality.”

Even with all those favors they are outside most people’s budgets. Those that people can stretch for become a problem for range and charging. Then there’s the fact that insurance is at least 25% more. I’m not against them. I’m against government forcing We The People into them.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 26, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is an overly bright sun because carbon pollution destroyed the atmosphere, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on remembering St. Crispin’s Day.

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Bidenconomy: CNN Notes That Inflation Is Not Done, But, Disinflation Could Be Worse

By William Teach October 26, 2023 – 10:30 am

Remember, disinflation is not deflation, it is simply a time when inflation has reduced over the short term, though, there is a chance of deflation when it drops near zero

Inflation is cooling, but the price hikes aren’t done

In 2021, when the price of organic cotton and other raw materials spiked, the family that runs White Lotus Home, a New Jersey-based sustainable bedding company, hoped the 20% to 25% jumps were merely momentary and opted to absorb most of the costs.

But earlier this month, Marlon Pando, White Lotus Home’s chief executive, emailed customers to explain that the 42-year-old company could no longer afford to do so, and that prices would go up in 2024.

In Boulder, Colorado, restaurateur Tony Hessel spends his weekends poring over spreadsheets he’s built to wrangle ingredient costs that have been consistently erratic. While he has been able to lower prices on some dishes, he’s had no choice but to raise others.

Inflation in the United States has unquestionably cooled after hitting 40-year highs last year. However, recent inflation gauges, the actions of reticent small businesses like these, and the broad-based announced price hikes by large entities like Chipotle and Disney, reinforce what Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and others have repeated for months: Disinflation will be bumpy.

However, the longer that process drags on, consumers’ patience — and, in some cases, their pocketbooks — are wearing increasingly thin.

“When we look ahead, what we’re likely to see in the economy is slower demand,” said Lydia Boussour, EY-Parthenon’s senior economist. “And that means for businesses, the ability to pass on higher prices and higher costs to the consumer is going to be limited.”

That lower demand is already there, especially with big ticket items, even some somewhat essential like automobiles. Further, many items are gone. Lots of products went away due to COVID and/or inflation, and are not coming back, like those low cost alternatives to things you’d get at the grocery store, because they just cannot afford to have them

Prices in the United States, by and large, are still going up — just not as much as they were last year.

During the 12 months that ended in September, the Consumer Price Index rose 3.7%, versus the 41-year high of 9.1% in June 2022. Other key inflation gauges, the more comprehensive Personal Consumption Expenditures price index and the wholesale-focused Producer Price Index, have moderated as well.

However, in recent months, their descents have been choppier. A spike in gas prices and other components such as persistently high shelter costs have kept inflation elevated.

Remember, that 3.7% is on top of the previous inflation hikes. And they were going up in 2021. Basically, the entire Biden years are ones of high inflation. Interestingly, the Credentialed Media has been feeding us the line about inflation cooling for most of this year, yet, prices continue to go up. Things that could swing down do not. The cost for used cars is still way too high. Home and apartment prices are out of control. There could be slight shifts downward in some goods, mostly foods, as the price of gas fluctuates, but, not much, and not for long, as gas remains much higher.

When digging into the numbers, the picture does look rosier, economists say, noting that the monthly inflation gains are in line with the Fed’s desired 2% inflation target. (The latest reading of the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, the PCE index that strips out energy and food, will be released on Friday).

I’m pretty sure that 3.7% is almost double 2%.

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Surprise: Almost Half Think Hotcoldwetdry Is Someone Else’s Problem

By William Teach October 26, 2023 – 7:15 am

Unfortunately, they didn’t put it as I do, Someone Else. I’m also surprised that the percent is so low

49% of Americans think climate change is mostly someone else’s problem

Pew surveyed 8,842 adults in the US between September 25 and October 1, 2023, about their opinions on climate change. The survey asked Americans who said they see climate change as at least a somewhat serious problem which groups they think can do “a lot” to combat climate change. (The deniers who said climate change is not too serious or not a problem – 24% – weren’t asked that particular question.)

Fifty-five percent of respondents answered that the energy industry can make a big impact, and 52% think large businesses and corporations can mitigate climate change. Then came the belief that the federal government (47%) and cities and communities (40%) can make a difference.

But only 27% of US adults polled felt that individual Americans’ efforts can help “a lot.” Thirty-six percent said that individuals’ efforts can do “a little” to impact climate change, and 13% said “not much.”

That means just under half – 49% – of Americans think individuals can do a little, or not much, to combat climate change. Then add in the 24% group who think climate change isn’t real, and you have a majority.

So, um, do these same people not use fossil fuels themselves? Remember, half of every barrel goes to make some over 600 products other than gasoline. Clothes, shoes, plastics, computers, TVs, smartphones, makeup, and so much more. Do they not buy products from Big Companies? And when they talk about government, do they not realize it would mean government forcing these people to change their lives to comply?

Yet when asked to look ahead to 30 years from now, 52% felt that “major changes” to everyday life will be needed to address the problems caused by climate change. (Again, the climate change deniers weren’t asked this question.)

Why are they not willing to change their own lives right now?

More than half of Americans think that they – or rather, their kids and grandkids – are going to have to make major changes to everyday life to address the problems caused by climate change in 2053.

But just under half also feel there’s nothing more than at least “a little” that individual people can do about climate change right now.

Let’s also presume that those polled were also thinking about themselves when they answered this question about individuals. So what’s with this seemingly selfish viewpoint?

A lot of psychology comes into play. Psychology professor Art Markman reported in 2018 for Harvard Business Review that acting on climate change means “a trade-off between short-term and long-term benefits, which is the hardest trade-off for people to make.”

Nah. It’s just that they’re a bunch of hypocrites, and ‘climate change’ is simply another way of pushing Modern Socialism.

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President Of Turkey Takes Side Of Hamas, Says They Aren’t Terrorists

By William Teach October 26, 2023 – 7:00 am

When a group intentionally attacks civilians, rapes them, kills them, tortures them, beheads babies, and this was all planned, that’s a terrorist group. Hence, the US, EU, and UN all designate Hamas as a terrorist group. It’s not surprising that Turkey, a Muslim nation, would take their side. Do we still want them in NATO?

Turkey’s Erdogan says Hamas is not terrorist organisation, cancels trip to Israel

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, in his strongest comments yet on the Gaza conflict, said on Wednesday the Palestinian militant group Hamas was not a terrorist organisation but a liberation group fighting to protect Palestinian lands.

NATO member Turkey condemned the civilian deaths caused by Hamas’s Oct. 7 rampage in southern Israel, but also urged Israeli forces to act with restraint in their response. Ankara has strongly criticised Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.

“Hamas is not a terrorist organisation, it is a liberation group, ‘mujahideen’ waging a battle to protect its lands and people,” he told lawmakers from his ruling AK Party, using an Arabic word denoting those who fight for their faith.

Unlike many of its NATO allies and the European Union, Turkey does not consider Hamas a terrorist organisation and hosts members of the group on its territory. Ankara backs a two-state solution to the decades-old Israel-Palestinian conflict.

Erdogan also slammed Western powers for supporting Israel’s bombing of Gaza and called for an immediate ceasefire, the unhindered entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza and for Muslim countries to work together to stop the violence.

So, any of you Useful Idiots out there taking the side of the Palestinians, which is really Hamas’ side, you’re taking the side of hardcore Islamists, ie, Islamic extremists. Like these Useful Idiots

Richmond City Council passes pro-Palestinian resolution accusing Israel of ‘ethnic cleansing’

After more than seven hours of emotionally charged debate over what’s going on in the Middle East, the Richmond City (California. Go figure) Council voted 5-1 Wednesday morning to approve a resolution that recognizes the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza and accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing.

The pro-Palestinian vote came shortly after 1 a.m. The Chronicle reported that those who stayed to hear the end result chanted “Free free Palestine!”

And what, exactly, does that mean? Do they understand it means replacing the nation of Israel, kicking out/killing all the Jews?

The JCRC had urged Jews and their allies to flood the meeting to oppose the resolution, and tell the council that they feel “unsafe and scared, and this resolutions’ lack of empathy for Jews will only exacerbate the pain the community is feeling.”

“Hamas had a great night in Richmond, with five hours of chaos and unrelenting repulsive speech against Israel and Jews,” JCRC CEO Tyler Gregory said Wednesday morning. The council demonstrated profound ignorance and incompetence. Richmond could not bring itself to condemn mass murder against Jewish civilians and is not a safe place for Jews. There will be consequences for this taxpayer-funded circus.”

How many Jews live in Richmond City? How many will be moving and taking their taxes and businesses with them? It’s wild that Democrats so openly embrace an Islamic terrorist group and show their hatred of Jews these days.

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‘Climate Change’ Will Soon Have Us Growing Corn In The Yukon

By William Teach October 25, 2023 – 3:00 pm

The tundra will soon be excellent farmland because you want to live a modern lifestyle

Corn Harvests in the Yukon? Study Finds That Climate Change Will Boost Likelihood That Wilderness Gives Way to Agriculture

Climate change has the potential to restructure the world’s agricultural landscapes, making it possible to plant crops in places where they have never been viable historically. Within the next 40 years, these new growing regions could overlap with 7 percent of the world’s wilderness areas outside Antarctica, putting those ecosystems at risk, scientists reported Thursday.

For their study, published in the journal Current Biology, the researchers ran computer models for how climate-driven shifts in precipitation and temperatures could alter the growing regions for 1,708 crops, with information on suitable conditions for each variety pulled from a database created by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

The models were based on two different scenarios: one in which greenhouse gas emissions peak by 2040 and then decline, and one in which those heat-trapping emissions steadily increase beyond that time frame. While the first possibility would put around a third less wilderness at risk than the runaway emissions scenario, either situation would pose a significant threat to biodiversity if the land is cultivated, the study found.

In the worst-case scenario, 72 percent of the land that is currently capable of being farmed will experience a net loss in total crop diversity, the researchers report. At the same time, the climate at higher latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere will become particularly suitable for agriculture.

Computer models. If you give them more money they can make even more prognostications.

Feeling Anxious About Climate Change? Read This Interview.

A few years ago, Sarah Jaquette Ray began noticing a change among her students. She has taught environmental studies throughout her career, but increasingly, students were coming to class anxious and hopeless about the climate crisis. They were asking questions like, “What’s the point of studying this if the planet won’t be livable in a few decades?”

Ray began talking through this stress and anxiety with her students, and she found that many of them felt that trying to respond to climate change was pointless. They couldn’t imagine a hopeful, beautiful future, and it was stifling their ability to work toward one.

So she spent the last several years researching and writing her most recent book, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet.

Better yet, seek out a qualified professional who understands how to deprogram people from being in cults. Quite frankly, I’m bummed that I never thought to write a pro cult book and make some cash off these fools.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 25, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is drought from Other People refusing to take the bus, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on Liz Cheney potentially running for president.

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Majority Of Sanctuary State NY Voters Say Illegal Immigration Is A Serious Problem

By William Teach October 25, 2023 – 11:30 am

Even Democrats, who helped Biden take SSNY 60% to 39%, say it’s an issue

Majority of NY voters says migrant influx ‘will destroy’ New York City: survey

A majority of New York state voters in a new poll said they agree with Mayor Eric Adams’s (D) statement that the influx of migrants “will destroy” the city.

In a Sienna College poll published Tuesday, 58 percent of respondents said they agree with their Democratic mayor’s earlier statement, while 32 percent said they disagree, three percent were in the middle and eight percent said they didn’t know or refused to say.

Per the poll, 46% of Democrats, 81% of Republicans, and 60% of Independents agree. Do I think it will destroy the city? No. But, it will cause serious problems. SCNY is hard to kill, but, add the illegals to all the Democrat policies which enable rising crime, the tax base leaving, and more, it will be difficult.

In the Sienna College poll, the vast majority of respondents said they saw the recent influx of migrants as a serious problem for the state — a sentiment that extends across demographics. A total of 84 percent of respondents called it a serious problem, compared to 12 percent who said it was not a serious problem.

Eighty-one percent of Democrats called it a serious problem, compared to 16 percent who said it was not serious. Ninety-four percent of Republicans said the recent influx of migrants was a serious problem for the state, compared to four percent who said it was not. Eighty-two percent of Independents/Others said it was serious, compared to 14 percent who said it was not.

The breakdown was somewhat starker by ideology, with 68 percent of liberals calling it serious, compared to 28 percent who called it not. Eighty-seven percent of moderates said it was serious, compared to 11 percent who said it was not. Ninety-seven percent of conservatives said it was serious, compared to just two percent said it was not.

Well, Democrats of all types, this is what you voted for. Then there’s this

Interesting. 52% of Democrats are done with the illegals. The other 41% probably live in areas which haven’t received illegals yet.

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Scientists Say We’re In Uncharted Territory On Climate Doom Or Something

By William Teach October 25, 2023 – 7:15 am

“Once upon a time” they said “we’re afraid”

‘We Are Afraid’: Scientists Issue New Warning As World Enters ‘Uncharted Climate Territory’

A distinguished international team of scientists on Tuesday issued the starkest warning yet that human activity is pushing Earth into a climate crisis that could threaten the lives of up to 6 billion people this century, stating candidly: “We are afraid of the uncharted territory that we have now entered.”

Writing in the journal Biosciences, the coalition of 12 researchers, spanning North America, Europe and Asia, state in unusually stark language: “As scientists, we are increasingly being asked to tell the public the truth about the crises we face in simple and direct terms. The truth is that we are shocked by the ferocity of the extreme weather events in 2023.”

Record climate anomalies seen around the world in 2023 have astonished the scientific community, raising concerns that further extreme weather, as well as climate tipping points, could arrive sooner than expected. The authors say that the temperature records, which smashed all previous observations, along with record low levels of sea ice, are signs that human activity is “pushing our planetary systems into dangerous instability.”

Can they compare it to previous Holocene warm periods? That’s what’s required for it to be science, comparisons. Otherwise, how do we know this is different?

Drawing on the cumulative body of Earth systems research, from disciplines spanning atmospheric physics, oceanography, biology, paleoclimatology and human geography, Tuesday’s Biosciences report shows that the world is now undergoing changes at a speed never before seen in human existence. Juxtaposed against the “minimal progress” among governments to slow climate change, the authors write, “It is the moral duty of us scientists and our institutions to clearly alert humanity of any potential existential threat and to show leadership in taking action.”

First off, why is it always government that must force people to comply and live a certain way? Why can’t Warmists practice what they preach? What if the huge number of Warmists in the world all went Net Zero in their own lives? We’d see if it made any difference.

Second, these climate cult scientists remind me of lots of pop stars, always having to get more and more crazy to get attention, like, say, Brittney Spears in her crazy years, and Miley Cyrus in hers. At what point does it end, because people are no longer paying attention? They just had enough?

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French President Suggests Fighting Hamas The Same As ISIS

By William Teach October 25, 2023 – 7:00 am

Macron already seems to be taking a tougher line on Islamic terrorism than most, including Biden. He’s called for deporting all immigrants with ties to Islamic extremism, though, I’ll believe it when I see it in action, considering France has been overrun with them for decades, mostly in the big cities, and they like to have riots and set cars on fire quite a bit. And now

In Israel, Macron proposes using anti-ISIS coalition against Hamas

French President Emmanuel Macron proposed Tuesday that the existing international coalition battling the remnants of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria could be widened to include the fight against Hamas.

The proposal, made after a meeting in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reflected the urgency among Western leaders and allies to use any tools available in attempts to keep the war between Hamas and Israel from igniting a wider conflict.

As Macron stood beside Netanyahu at a brief appearance in Jerusalem, the Israeli leader described Hamas as “the new Nazis” and said Jewish children trying to escape Hamas gunmen attacking their communities earlier this month were forced to “hide in attics” just “like Anne Frank” did in Amsterdam during World War II.

Macron pledged that Israel was not alone and that “France is ready for the coalition, which is fighting in Iraq and Syria against ISIS, to also fight against Hamas.”

What would this look like? Would it include fighting on the ground? Killing the leaders? Eroding their weapons caches? He might be seeing the huge amount of Islamic extremism and Jew hatred in France. Perhaps he’s looking to take on a bit of the world leadership since Biden is not scary to our enemies at all.

Later Tuesday, Macron traveled to the West Bank to meet with Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, a rival of Hamas. Abbas blamed Israel and said that “the countries that support it are responsible for the conflict,” according to France 24.

Macron told reporters that “Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people.” He posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the war was “a tragedy for Israelis but also for Palestinians.”

Yeah, well, most of the Palestinians do support Hamas, so, if they didn’t want a tragedy they should have booted Hamas. But, without Hamas, they’re still Islamic extremists who hate Jews, Israel, the US, and the West.

Later in the article

Palestinian and Israeli foreign ministers traded graphic descriptions of indiscriminate brutality and slain children. One of the most outraged responses came from Israel, after U.N. Secretary General António Guterres opened the session by condemning the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel but then called for recognition that “the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.”

His remarks infuriated Israeli diplomats — the country’s United Nations ambassador called on Guterres to “resign immediately.”

Obviously, the Marxists at the UN are happy to show their Jew hatred, starting with Guterres.

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