You know you’re on thin moral ice when you want to remove a piece of environmental regulation that the industry itself believes is a good idea.
Author: craigshields
This Bud’s Comin’ At You in an Electric Truck
More good news about electrifying large vehicles. Anheuser-Busch, the beer company behind popular brands like Budweiser and Stella Artois, is launching the largest fleet of Class 8 electric trucks in North America.
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Trump and War
A reader notes: Re: Trump, it comes down to whether a president can keep us out of war. And you know? So far, that dog hasn’t barked. And Trump has had plenty of pressure to go to war. And Tulsi is …
View on Impeachment
A reader offers this interesting but fairly cynical viewpoint on the impeachment proceedings currently taking place in the U.S. I certainly think it’s good that proceedings have begun. I’m not highly hopeful of success, but I would be so very …
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Good Ideas in Generating Electricity Require Thinking Outside the Box
Here’s an article in which the author demonstrates the folly of replacing the nuclear power plants in the UK with wind and solar. Was anyone suggesting that this would be a good idea? We could power the country with hamsters …
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Impossible Burger Renders Red Meat Health Issues Moot
Here more on the controversy surrounding the ill-effects of the consumption of red meat. Not the biggest deal in the world either way, IMO. Now that the Impossible Burger is so widely available, there is no reason to eat beef …
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Wow, They Hate Greta Thunberg
There are so many features of American life I’ve just never been able to understand. The popularity of NASCAR and professional wrestling. Now it’s the death threats against 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg. She’s just a girl with a devotion …
Saying Goodbye To Rick Perry at the U.S. Energy Department
It appears that Rick Perry will be stepping down as U.S. Secretary of Energy, perhaps related to his being swept up in the Ukrainian outrage. In all fairness, Perry has had a fairly scandal-free tenure at the DoE, though his …
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Nationalism
If you’ll excuse this guy’s French, he’s making an excellent point, one that had an attraction for me even as a small child. We boys of the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia were part of the so-called “Interacademic League,” …
Electrifying Large Vehicles
When I joined EV World as their VP Marketing in 2008, it was “common wisdom” that we were one hell of a long way from electrifying large vehicles like buses, cargo ships and Class 8 trucks. Good news: as presented …
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