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Biden’s Liberty-Sucking Vehicle Rules

This article is featured in the upcoming edition of the Buffalo Gap News Roundup. You can subscribe to this monthly newspaper (delivered to your home!) – subscriptions@buffalogapnews.com

Bowing to the demands of the green gods, the Biden Administration has proposed new regulations regarding the vehicles “We the People” choose to drive.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to require that 60 percent of new car sales be battery-powered by 2030, growing to 67 percent by 2032.

Currently fewer than 6 percent are electric (the largest percentage being found in the Silicon Valley).

The green rhetoric claims these vehicles produce fewer carbon emissions than those with internal combustion engines powered by fossil fuels. Carbon emissions contribute to global warming, they say, and global warming poses a threat to the planet and mankind.

The crazy thing is, the lion’s share of electricity for battery-powered vehicles is coming from natural gas and coal instead of renewables like solar and wind. The big problem with solar and wind is simple: solar only works when the sun is overhead and not obscured by clouds, and wind turbines need just the right amount of wind to generate energy.

That’s why every solar and wind plant has a fossil fuel backup.

As the federal government moves to further erode our liberty by reducing our choices in property ownership (cars and trucks) the added demand for electricity resulting from the rapid adoption of more electric vehicles will strain the grid and—just like we experience here in California due to the insane green energy policies—rolling blackouts will occur, and bold message boards over the freeways will state: “Flex Alert! Do not charge your plug-in vehicle between 4 and 9pm.”

I’m not kidding.

And then, there are the batteries.

Seventy percent of the world’s electric battery components are produced in the slave state known as China. 83 percent of China’s energy comes from fossil fuels.  The longer the range of the battery, the more carbon is used in the production process. Senecal has calculated that carbon emissions to produce a battery for a Nissan Leaf were equivalent to driving a gasoline-powered BMW 320D for 24,000 miles. For a larger Tesla Model S battery, carbon emissions used in production are equivalent to driving the BMW 320D for 60,000 miles.

The Tesla S is the electric vehicle of choice in the Silicon Valley—they cost about $145,000 (from my experience,  most of them are driven by dim-witted drivers who don’t seem to feel a need to wash their super luxury vehicles).

It is also curious how those who think they are doing their share in saving the planet by driving an electric car are not concerned about the horrid environmental impact associated with mining the essential mineral required for the batteries. And, of course, the mining creates its own greenhouse gases.

Oh, and then there is this ugly fact: those batteries are not recycled. Quite a few companies are trying to get into that game, but so far no one is able to do it efficiently (don’t tell anyone, but I have a friend who works at the Tesla battery assembly plant in Nevada—there hundreds of rail cars chock full of used Tesla automobiles that previous owners traded in; no one wants to replace the batteries after they are spent).

The bottom line is, until electricity can be generated by emissions-free energy, battery-powered vehicles will generally increase, rather than reduce, emissions. The EPA’s new rules to put more electric vehicles on the roads will take away choices for consumers without reducing emissions.

Finally, I invite you to listen to my daily podcast, the Brian Sussman Show, heard on all the popular podcasting platforms, as well as at my website, briansussman.com

Earth Day: The Real Story

From my book, Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam:

On April 22, 1970, a trio of radical dreamers established the first Earth Day, an annual event designed to assault capitalism, free-markets and mankind.

The initial concept was conceived by Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WS).  Nelson was Congress’ leading environmentalist activist, a sort of preincarnate Senator Barbara Boxer in drag.  He was also the mastermind behind those ridiculous teach-ins which were vogue in the Sixties and early Seventies.  During the teach-ins, mutinous school instructors would scrap the day’s assigned curriculum, pressure their students to sit cross-legged on the floor, and “rap” about how America was an imperialist nation, and converse about why communism really wasn’t such a bad form of government—it just needed to be implemented properly.

Nelson’s teach-in efforts were aided by a young man named Denis Hayes.  Hayes was student body president while at Stanford, and well known for organizing anti-Vietnam war protests.  Hayes heard about Senator Nelson’s teach-in concept and eventually helped Nelson institute the practice nationwide.

Rounding out the troika was Professor Paul Ehrlich of Stanford.  In 1968 Ehrlich authored the Malthusian missive, The Population Bomb, in which he infamously spouted wild allegations which included equating the earth’s supposed surplus of people with a cancer that needs to be eradicated:  “A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people…We must shift our efforts from treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer.  The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions,” he wrote.

In 1969, following a much-hyped oil spill off the Santa Barbara coast, an overblown patch of fire on Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River, and the drug-induced vibes cast across the nation via the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, Senator Nelson met with Ehrlich and reportedly said, “My God—why not a national teach-in on the environment?”  Hayes was brought in to play a pivotal role with organization and implementation.  After careful consideration a name and date for the event were chosen:  the inaugural Earth Day would be celebrated April 22, 1970—Russian dictator Vladimir Lenin’s Centennial.

Environmentalists have always admired Lenin.  He was the first disciple of Karl Marx to capture control of a country, and the opening act of his seven-year reign commenced with the abolition of all private property—a Marxist priority.  Despite overseeing a bloody civil war, a devastated economy and a citizenry without hope, Lenin made it a priority to implement his signature decree, “On Land.”  In it he declared that all forests, waters, and minerals to be the exclusive property of the state, and he demanded these resources be protected from use by the public and private enterprise.  Selling timber or firewood, mining minerals, or diverting water for farming was strictly prohibited.

While Nelson and Ehrlich were already known as non-traditional crackpots, Hayes was that and more.  In a New York Times article published the morning after the first Earth Day headlined, “Angry Coordinator of Earth Day,” young Hayes bragged that five years earlier he fled overseas because “I had to get away from America.”  Hayes was so committed to his anti-capitalist cause that he made sure his organization did not even produce Earth Day bumper stickers, “You want to know why?” he explained to the Times, because “they go on automobiles.”

Earth Day has never been a celebration of the beauty and bounty of this awesome terrestrial ball.  Instead it’s always been an assault on man.   During the first decade of Earth Day observances people were proclaimed the polluter.  By the Eighties the event’s organizers cast mankind as the tree killer, and, with the Nineties, humans evolved into the animal species annihilator.  The global warming scare never really became popular until the late Nineties, and when it did, it provided compatriots at the Earth Day headquarters with the ultimate hook to hang their red berets: humans, particularly Americans, were now screwing up the entire planet’s climate.

Rather then join in the Marxist falderal designed to hammer the American way, let’s give thanks to God for our nation’s abundant resources and the absolute natural beauty of this planet on which we live; and  let us strive as a people to return to the natural laws of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (property ownership) that made this nation unique.

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