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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I can only speak for myself, but this happens to me all the time. I’ll read something that appears perfectly plausible given our current times, only to note that it came from The Onion.
Recently, we reported that U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry (pictured) made an unsuccessful attempt to bail out the failing coal industry. His grand idea was to pass legislation that would subsidize energy sources that are physically located near the plants that consume them (read: coal), claiming that this was required to guarantee grid stability and reliability. (more…)
