The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The 'Green' Movement: Endemic Sorrow and Permanent Fear And btw, the smoke you are inhaling? Those fires were set. ELIZABETH NICKSON Whatever happened to saving the whales? Twenty years from now we are going to look back at the early years of green energy seeing it as the apex predator in the Madness of Crowds sweepstakes. The wealth transfer from the poor to the rich, as taxpayers  subsidize  green energy projects in every country, is shocking. That money winds its way into hedge funds that promote new green energy projects accompanied by yet more taxpayer subsidy. At the same time, the money that could be used to lift up an increasingly miserable lower 50 percent is accompanied by a shutting down of fossil fuel supply, thus raising energy costs for the working poor and middle class, which then skyrockets the price of food. It is a pincer movement, a classic play by the rich to milk the poor, a driving of tens of millions into poverty and serfdom. I can read the face o...

  Modernity, Not Hollow and empty progressive conceits (a gonzo reprieve from gardening) WILLIAM HUNTER DUNCAN One of the most hollow and empty ideas of the religion of progress is the electric automobile. If we take progressives to be the primary adherents of the religion of progress, of sheer faith in progress, then we might assume, as progressives care so much about the poors, then they will want all the (minority) poors to have electric vehicles. Without going into a long study on the technological fallacy that is changing out the gas powered fleet for electric, when was the last time you heard a progressive talk about the fact that most poors buy old, used vehicles, but that an old, used electric vehicle is going to need a new $10,000+ battery, and what kind of fool is going to put a ten thousand dollar battery in a ten year old vehicle? Not a poor one, said no progressive ever. But then this is all surely a moot point as flying cars must be just around the progressive arc of ...