(Guest author Blake Hurst raises soybeans, corn, and greenhouse crops on his family farm in Tarkio, Missouri.)
Nestled among all the other items in the optimistically named Inflation Reduction Act are 369 billion of your dollars to encourage “climate solutions and environmental justice.” I’ll leave it to readers to imagine what environmental justice might look like, but I’m pretty sure that whatever portion of the 369 billion is spent on environmental justice it won’t be enough.
Tag: carbon dioxide
Reminder: The U. S. Has Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions More Than Any Other Country
Earlier this fall, Jon Sanders put together some often-ignored facts that should give one pause as we get knee-deep into climate change mandates and social carbon costs and electric vehicles. I quote Jon: The United States has been cutting CO2 emissions. Anyone only familiar with the apocalyptic rhetoric from media, politicians, academics, and environmentalists would think otherwise….
Buy EVs, says the L.A. Times. Forget “Range Anxiety.” You Only Need 30 Miles or So.
Here’s what’s wrong with Americans and electric cars, says Bloomberg’s Ira Boudway, writing in the L.A. Times: Americans have “outsized range expectations” about their needs; they want “too much car.” Nearly two-thirds of drivers surveyed by Bloomberg expected “300-plus miles of range,” while “less than 10% would settle for 200 or less.” This means: “There…
Environmental Activists Oppose Carbon Capture as a ‘False Solution’
It’s hard to keep up with what environmental activists are against. (See Ron Bailey on solar geoengineering.) Now it’s carbon capture. Carbon capture (CCS) is the largely experimental technology for removing carbon dioxide during or after a combustion process and then storing it, usually underground. The Biden administration is promoting carbon capture, and this month Energy…
Bjorn Lomborg: Truths about Electric Cars
“Politicians are spending hundreds of billions of dollars and keeping consumers from the cars they want for virtually no climate benefit.” That’s the bottom line of Bjørn Lomborg’s assessment of electric cars. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, the president of the Copenhagen Consensus says: “The climate effect of our electric-car efforts in the 2020s…
What? California to Ban Gas Cars, Fine Automakers $20,000 a Car for Missing EV Targets
Update: California is warning residents not to use electrical charging because of heat wave. What kind of world are we living in? From the New York Times: “The rule, issued by the California Air Resources Board, will require that all new cars sold in the state by 2035 be free of greenhouse gas emissions like…