Thinklike A. Mountain's Blog – December 2021 Archive (9)

In her excellent book Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid, Meredith Angwin describes how a combination of bad policy, complicated governance, and dense bureaucracy has made the entire electric grid of New England incredibly vulnerable to collapse, especially during winter cold snaps (you can buy Angwin’s book here and…

Prices for just about everything went up in 2021 as economies recovered from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic and demand outpaced supply, driving high-profile debates about inflation and global supply chains.

Higher costs for energy are a central variable to that equation, as the prices of oil, gas, and other fuels are embedded in the cost of everything, from the manufacturing and moving of products to generating electricity.

Here's how much energy prices went up over the…

No other industry in American history has ever received this lucrative a paycheck

How much would solar, wind and electric vehicle companies have gotten in federal handouts and tax loopholes in President Joe Biden's Build Back Better bill? Well over $100 billion in taxpayer largesse. If all the tax credits are…

"Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind" - just one example of what they've been doing to us

It has been very clear to some of us for some time that the insane push for feckless "renewable energy" is part of a bigger plan to weaken the United States of America.

If we knew our history and had a media that would tell us the truth, we could all make better decisions about what to believe.

Congressional Record — Appendix, pp. A34-A35

January 10,…

Thomas Catenacci

Energy & Environment Reporter

December 13, 2021 8:30 PM ET

Products that are fundamental to nearly all global “green pledges” — including electric vehicle batteries, solar panels, wind turbines and industrial-grade storage batteries — require minerals that are produced with significant human rights violations.

Overall, about 45% of the world’s solar panel polysilicon supply is produced in the Uyghur region of China, according to a Sheffield…

By J.D. Rucker • Dec. 8, 2021

Anyone who thinks the Biden regime’s incompetence is to blame for skyrocketing gas prices, inflation, and the supply chain crisis needs to take a closer look at what they’re doing. They’re not failing miserably. They’re accomplishing EXACTLY what they set to accomplish.

The latest example of the shift from sound policies to the formation of their Neo-Marxist agenda came during a speech Joe Biden delivered today in which he proudly said something that…

The single greatest fear of the left, in all of this, is that Americans are awakening and increasingly willing to challenge its illegitimate acquisition of power, from Washington D.C. to the local government schools. That is…

“The people who stand to benefit most from owning an EV are often rural residents, who have the longest distances to drive, they often burn the most gas,” Buttigieg said in an interview with…