Sales of electric cars have stalled despite Europe’s plans to ban the sale of new internal combustion engine cars by 2035.
Electric car demand plunges across Europe
Electric car demand plunges across Europe
30 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, transport economics, urban economics Tags: electric cars, European Union
EU To Spend Trillions On Net Zero Grid Expansion
15 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: European Union
By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler The EU is going to plough on with Net Zero insanity, regardless of the cost: The EU is looking to front-load massive anticipatory investments into its energy infrastructure, shifting risk from industry to consumers and risking a landscape with unneeded or under-used pylons. Amid its green transition, […]
EU To Spend Trillions On Net Zero Grid Expansion
Europe’s Wind Industry Collapse Leaves Wind Power Cult Searching For New False Idols
21 Mar 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: European Union, solar power, wind power
Wind power acolytes exhibit all the hallmarks of a cult. 20 years on, and anyone with critical faculties can explain in a sentence why wind power will never amount to meaningful power generation source. But the cultist still believes – running on a mix of blind faith, ignorance and blissful stupidity. Cults are never big […]
Europe’s Wind Industry Collapse Leaves Wind Power Cult Searching For New False Idols
Brian Christopher Jones: Nigel Farage and the UK Constitution
20 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, currency unions, economic history, law and economics, macroeconomics Tags: British constitutional law, British politics, European Union
The upheaval of the UK constitution from 2016 onwards has been associated with a host of individuals, from David Cameron to Boris Johnson to Dominic Cummings, who have received the significant bulk of academic attention in recent years. And yet, another individual has had a substantial impact upon the UK constitution during this time: Nigel […]
Brian Christopher Jones: Nigel Farage and the UK Constitution
The Deindustrialization of Europe in Five Charts
13 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: European Union
Industrial electricity use in the EU is collapsing. US policymakers “Have no excuse for not looking at Europe and learning.”
The Deindustrialization of Europe in Five Charts
EU mulls emergency aid for collapsing solar producers
05 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: European Union, solar power
By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler New Green Jobs Update! BRUSSELS — The European Commission is in early-stage talks on emergency measures to buoy drowning EU solar manufacturers who say Chinese subsidies are suffocating the industry, according to two people familiar with the matter. On Monday, the Commission will make a […]
EU mulls emergency aid for collapsing solar producers
The Economic Cost of EU Membership
13 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economic history, international economics Tags: Brexit, Common market, custom unions, European Union
The Brexit vote is about the supremacy of Parliament
30 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, international economic law, international economics, International law Tags: British economy, British politics, Common market, European Union
Why did voters vote to Leave or Remain? @JulieAnneGenter @Income_Equality
28 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, international economic law, international economics, International law, Public Choice Tags: British economy, British politics, Common market, European Union, pessimism bias, single market, Twitter left, voter demographics
There were few difference across the political spectrum as to why voters voted to Remain or Leave. This is according to Lord Ashcroft’s survey on referendum day of over 12,000 voters.
Source: How the United Kingdom voted on Thursday… and why – Lord Ashcroft Polls
Labour and Tory voters voted to leave to regain control over immigration and sovereignty.
Labour and Tory voters who wanted to remain thought the EU and its single market was a good deal not worth putting at risk. It is all about identity politics, not inequality.
Vote Leave voters are a grumpy lot who think things have been getting worse for 30 years:
Leavers see more threats than opportunities to their standard of living from the way the economy and society are changing, by 71% to 29% – more than twice the margin among remainers…
By large majorities, voters who saw multiculturalism, feminism, the Green movement, globalisation and immigration as forces for good voted to remain in the EU; those who saw them as a force for ill voted by even larger majorities to leave.
Patrick Minford explains #Brexit
22 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics, international economic law, international economics, International law, Public Choice Tags: Brexit, British economy, British politics, Common market, European Union
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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