Lies about Electric Transportation
It’s impossible to know who or what is behind the constant flow of disinformation on electric transportation, e.g., the graphic at left. Big Oil? QAnon? Other right-wing, anti-environmentalist groups?
In any case, I have a friend who’s been telling me since we were teenagers 50 years ago, that EVs only move the source of the emissions from the vehicle to the power plant. Of course, he also told me, “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.” Yes, he’s given to those types of slogans one encounters on Fox News and the like.
In truth, the phasing out of fossil fuels in our energy and transportation sectors is a boon to our environment, and our efforts to mitigate climate change in particular. This has been shown in hundreds of peer-reviewed studies spanning several decades. Here’s a piece from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency debunking myths on the subject.
Apparently, some people have an appetite for being ordered around by the most ignorant and hateful people in America.
The answer: Trump’s tens of millions of supporters are turned on by his overt racism and the fact that he always wins, regardless of what it takes.
Here’s something that’s getting passed around on social media. Common responses include nose rings, face tattoos, and sex changes.
Gotta like this guy’s style. Not only is he on the right side of the issues, but he hasn’t given up.
From a reader: (Below) is the type of crap (Trump) pulls and they actually believe him. We’ve learned that the person involved in the tragedy in New Orleans was a U.S citizen radicalized by ISIS.
Love this bumper sticker.
The reader who sent the meme here nailed it.
This week’s “TED Radio Hour” on National Public Radio is called “Paradise Lost–and Found,” and, as the title suggests, it’s about the things in our lives that make us happy.
Congrats to the author of the cartoon, for this clever adaptation of a scene from the film Forest Gump.
