Poor, Be Damned: Subsidised Wind & Solar Scam Guarantees Third World Poverty
30 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
The great wind and solar scam’s beneficiaries couldn’t care less about the poorest billion, struggling daily for a little energy for cooking or warmth, which comes often in the form of scavenged twigs and dung.
Raking in $billions in wind and solar subsidies is just the beginning. The Great Green Reset now includes so-called net-zero carbon oxide gas emissions targets.
Rent seekers and international bankers are salivating at the prospect of making $trillions trading in carbon dioxide gas credits – presumably backed by an invisible commodity that will never be delivered. And all backed by government mandates. What’s not to like?
Well, condemning the Third World’s poorest to a life of agrarian misery, for a start.
The meddling by global elites in Third World energy policy is as pervasive and insidious as it is callous and mercenary.
By refusing to back reliable coal-fired power plants, Davos man and his compatriots…
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The wages of sin are not what they used to be: The Vice Fund
30 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of regulation, financial economics
Paris suspends electric bus fleet after fires
30 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
Image credit: sustainable-bus.com H/T JohnM
One bus…30 fire fighters. Best wear running shoes and travel light if boarding such a vehicle. This has happened before.
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Dozens of electric buses will be taken off the streets of Paris temporarily “as a precaution” after two of the vehicles caught fire, public transport operator RATP said on Friday. The Local – France reporting.
Following a second blaze on Friday morning, in which no one was hurt, “RATP has taken the decision to suspend use of 149 electric buses” of manufacturer Bollore’s Bluebus 5SE model, the state-owned company said.
The number 71 bus that caught fire in southeast Paris early on Friday released thick clouds of black smoke and a strong smell of burning plastic, according to an AFP journalist on the scene.
“The bus driver immediately evacuated all the passengers. Nobody was hurt,” RATP said, while the city…
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Western Front Spring 1917: Why the Allies Failed
30 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
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