The Post-Partisan Emporium

  GM just revealed its new electric Escalade – a huge, wastrel of an SUV that will start “around” $130,000. It’s an obscenity on so many levels it is hard to count them all.    First, if the “climate” truly is in “crisis,” then why the – expletive deleted – are vehicles such as this being made? Why are they being encouraged? Doesn’t a “crisis” require sacrifices? As in making do with less? Yet here is a vehicle that uses up probably five times as much raw materials to make it – and five times as much energy to power it – as something like the Aptera , which isn’t an affront to common sense but that probably isn’t something that uber affluent virtue-signalers want to drive. And that’s probably why you haven’t even heard of it. So what is it? The Aptera is a small, light, three-wheel EV that isn’t designed to virtue-signal. It is designed to be efficient as well as practical and – the big one – affordable (the projected base price of this little EV is $33,200). In order to be thos

SDG7: The Impossible Energy Transformation The alleged purpose of the United Nation’s (UN’s) Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) is to “ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.” The real impacts of its implementation couldn’t be more different. Renewable energy is neither renewable nor sustainable and the SDG7 energy transition is only making the problem of energy poverty worse. BY IAIN DAVIS The alleged purpose of the United Nation’s (UN’s)  Sustainable Development Goal 7  (SDG7) is to “ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.” In keeping with  Agenda 2030 , the target date to achieve this goal is, as you might expect, 2030. As  previously discussed , UN documents are couched in fluffy rhetoric. The disarming verisimilitude of compassion and concerned stewardship is thickly layered in UN texts, resolutions and announcements. This obscures the unpalatable aspects of “sustainable development.” We must look beyon