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 allegiance to the fossil fuel industry and his total lack of qualifications for the position in the first place will not stand him in good stead when it comes to history’s evaluation of his term in office. (more…)
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,” consisting of six similar private schools in the area, and, of course, we had a main rival (Germantown Academy). (more…)
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 here, that’s no longer the case. (more…)
A friend writes: Hi Craig, Is this piece on solar energy a real argument or a conservative pipe dream?
I respond:
The latter, as one might infer from the other content on the site. (more…)
Last year, a close friend sold his house here in Santa Barbara, California and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. When I asked about his reasoning he explained that he thought the droughts, believed to be largely a product of climate change, would eventually bring down housing prices, and he wanted to sell before that happened. (more…)
To be completely honest, though I suspected that this was going to be bad, I had no idea how bad.
To illustrate how completely easily taken in I was, I told my wife that there is a chance that Trump will say, (more…)
Here are four countries that offer a novel array of different incentives to electric vehicles owners.
My favorite: Austria hochsgeschwindichkeit (speed limit). On smoggy days, gas- and diesel powered cars are limited to 100 KPM (62 MPH), where their EV counterparts may zip along at 130 (81 MPH). Vienna waits for you.
Two quick points on supplemental nutrition:
a) SNAP comes out of the orange slice at the bottom of the chart here. It’s no more responsible for the ballooning national debt than snow removal in Florida. (more…)
I thought I’d comment on another excellent conversation I had with my mother last night. As a conservative, she is understandably perturbed by my anti-Trump position, and she asked if it wouldn’t be prudent for me to remain quiet and not rush to judgement while the evidence against him, if there is any, is gathered and analyzed. (more…)
Let’s suppose that next 50 years produces no unpredictable Earth-shattering events. Let’s speculate that the world of 2070, given what we see today re: environmental decay/climate change, the trend towards fascism, the threat of nuclear war, and all the rest doesn’t render our world a fundamentally different place than what we’re experiencing today. What will life be like?
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