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The case against tax-payer funded subsidies for electric cars
By Tom Quiner Should the federal government take your tax money and give it to someone else if they buy an electric car? It is happening. It is being done based on the assumption that global warming is real, man-made, and reversible through draconian green energy schemes. Each is subject to debate within the scientific…
Read MoreClimate change policies hurt the poor
“Africa is the renewable utopia, getting 50 per cent of its energy from renewables—though nobody wants to emulate it. In 1971, China derived 40 per cent of its energy from renewables. Since then, it has powered its incredible growth almost exclusively on heavily polluting coal, lifting a historic 680 million people out of poverty. Today, China gets a trifling 0.23 per cent of its energy from unreliable wind and solar.”
Read MoreThe case against tax-payer funded subsidies for electric cars
Environmentalist Bjorn Lombort says the electric car is bad for the environment. You read that right. He says a 2012 study about the environmental efficacy of the electric car appeared in the Journal of Industrial Ecology that reveals that the electric car is worse for the environment than a vehicle fueled by gasoline.
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