Robert Rapier on the Use of Data
From Energy Analyst Robert Rapier:
I never cease to be amazed by people who flatly reject data that are crystal clear.
I once had a guy get huffy because he insisted that gasoline prices at the end of Obama’s second term were $4.00 a gallon, and Trump brought them down. I showed him the data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) — a division of the Department of Energy — that gasoline prices had fallen below $2.00 a gallon during Obama’s last year in office.
The question here is remarkable in that it could have been posed at any time since humankind formed its first agrarian societies about 10,000 years ago, and that this concern has recently intensified with what has happened in Russia, China, Turkey, Brazil, Hungary, the Philippines, and, most recently of course, the United States.
This is a hot topic right now, and there are numerous perspectives. According to some jackass on Sunday morning news TV, that’s “up to the American people, and they don’t care.”
When I came across this meme on India’s roadways, I wrote: “Does this represent a legitimate path to sustainability, via a new use of waste plastic?”
As George Carlin noted in the video below, we tend to use language that separates us from the punishing blows of harsh realities, and as time passes, our use of euphemisms grows ever more intense. 
From Senior Contributor to Forbes Robert Rapier:
An EV skeptic writes as follows, with my comments in italics:
Sorry, but I don’t get this.
I like every single point being made here. Outside of extremely stupid and delusional people, to whom does the Republican platform appeal?
On a discussion of the merits of EVs, Reader A notes:
