Biden’s Idea For Those Worried About High Gas Prices: Just Buy An Electric Vehicle

By William Teach November 24, 2021 – 8:03 am

Dementia Joe was just full of great ideas. For those of you who have $54,000 (average cost of an EV)

Joe Biden Addresses High Gas Prices: Americans Can Save Money if They Buy Electric Cars

President Joe Biden promoted his efforts to lower gas prices on Tuesday, but he reminded Americans they would save more money on gas if they owned electric cars.

“For the hundreds of thousands of folks who bought one of those electric cars, they’re going to save $800 to $1000 in fuel costs this year,” Biden said, referring to the $112,595 electric Hummer pickup he test drove at a General Motors factory in Detroit earlier this month.

The president appeared frustrated that some Americans continue blaming his environmental agenda for higher gas prices, dismissing it as a “myth.”

“My effort to combat climate change is not raising the price of gas, what it’s doing is increasing the availability of jobs,” Biden insisted.

He claimed his government subsidies for green energy and electric cars would only help Americans get jobs and save more money.

Except, they are not subsidies: they are a tax rebate, meaning (most likely, since every article, dealer, etc, will say to talk with your tax professional) that they will just reduce your taxable income. A $7,500 reduction means you’re net taxable income will be, say, $40,000, at which point you go to the schedule to see how much you should have paid in taxes. For 2021 that’s $4606 filing single. And you paid $4607 from your check. You get a dollar back! Well, really, you saved around $1640, based on the difference between filing at $40k vs 47,500. That’s not $7,500, eh?

But, Joe is so divorced from reality that thinks everyone can afford an EV, which, interestingly, is not something he drives. None of the vehicles in his big motorcades are EVs.

So, our Energy Secretary is lying about what type of vehicle she drives (she’s gonna have to lease something different, with Volts going bye bye). And she doesn’t know how many barrels of oil the U.S. uses daily. You’d think that would be an important, and relevant, number to know.

Biden announced plans to release 50 million gallons of oil from the Strategic Oil Reserves to help lower prices but cautioned Americans it would take a while to have an effect on gas prices.

“While our combined actions will not solve the problem of high gas prices overnight, it will make a difference,” he said. It will take time, but before long, you should see the price of gas drop where you fill up your tank.”

Biden’s efforts did not immediately have the desired effect on the oil market as prices rose over three percent per barrel on Tuesday morning after his announcement.

Huh. The U.S. used 18.19 million barrels a day in 2020, which was obviously down a bit. 50 million covers us for just over two days.

(ABC News) While the news could bring relief of five to 15 cents per gallon in the coming days and weeks, industry experts told ABC News, they remain skeptical about whether the move will ease longer-term pressures in the oil market and concerned over how oil producers could punitively respond.

“Could”. A small amount which will most likely be very short term. And the oil companies need to repay it.

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Brandon’s New Idea Is To Require All Truckers Crossing Border To Be Vaccinated

By William Teach November 24, 2021 – 7:33 am

Well, it’s not just truckers, but, can you imagine what this will do to the supply chain?

From the link

President Joe Biden will require essential, nonresident travelers crossing U.S. land borders, such as truck drivers, government and emergency response officials, to be fully vaccinated beginning on Jan. 22, the administration planned to announce.

A senior administration official said the requirement, which the White House previewed in October, brings the rules for essential travelers in line with those that took effect earlier this month for leisure travelers, when the U.S. reopened its borders to fully vaccinated individuals. (snip)

The Biden administration pushed back the requirement for essential travelers by more than two months from when it went into effect on Nov. 8 for non-essential visitors to prevent disruptions, particularly among truck drivers who are vital to North American trade. While most cross-border traffic was shut down in the earliest days of the pandemic, essential travelers have been able to transit unimpeded.

Even with the delay, though, Norita Taylor, spokeswoman for the trucking group Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, criticized the vaccination requirement, calling it an example of “how unnecessary government mandates can force experienced owner-operators and independent truckers out of business.”

So, the #LetsGoBrandon administration knew this would cause supply chain issues two months ago, and is doing now, with the supply chain in even more of a mess.

https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1463266574656229382

It’s like Joe asked “how can I make this worse” and his handlers said “make everyone driving goods into the U.S. be vaccinated. And subject all U.S. citizens bringing goods back from Canada and Mexico go through rigorous testing and isolation protocols.”

But, you know who’s still not required to be vaccinated? All the illegals/migrants crossing the border.

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NJ Devils Release Their 3rd Jersey, And, Bless Their Hearts

By William Teach November 23, 2021 – 7:23 pm

I’ve been a Devils fan since they moved from Colorado (they were the Rockies. They started as the Kansas City Scouts) in 1984. I have tons of shirts, hats, and other stuff. This, though?

No. Just no. Hell no. And they want $179 for a jersey with no name on the back. LOL. I won’t be surprised if this is a big merchandising fail. Why not something like this?

Or black with red shoulders. Put the Devils logo on it, or a representation of the NJ Devil folklore character.

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It Starts: Climate Cult Complains About Your Thanksgiving Dinner

By William Teach November 23, 2021 – 3:00 pm

I tried to ignore it, but, ran across this one, so, I’m legally required to blog it

Your Thanksgiving waste could be contributing to climate change

While we savor every ounce of our Thanksgiving meals including leftovers, the scraps, extra food waste, boxes and containers usually all get sent off to the landfills.

Brian Roe has studied the impacts of food waste as the Van Buren Chair in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Developmental Economics at Ohio State and is the faculty lead in the Food Waste Collaborative.

“This year for Thanksgiving alone, we are expecting around 300 million pounds of waste,” Roe said.

That waste typically ends up in our landfills which turn into methane gas and other pollutants. In order to keep as much waste as we can out of the landfills, community organizations have found other useful ways of recycling.

The interesting thing here is that almost all the same people complaining about Thanksgiving and ‘climate change’ will not give up their own big Thanksgiving celebration, in the same way that Lefties complain about Thanksgiving, massacres, it’s mean to Native Americans, etc, will want their paid day off.

Meanwhile, this seems rather threatening

‘Pipelines will be blown up,’ says David Suzuki, if leaders don’t act on climate change

David Suzuki, the godfather of the Canadian environmental movement, warned over the weekend that if politicians don’t act to reverse climate change, there could be attacks against oil and gas infrastructure.

“We’re in deep, deep doo-doo,” said Suzuki Saturday, speaking at an Extinction Rebellion protest on Vancouver Island. “This is what we’re come to. The next stage after this, there are going to be pipelines blown up if our leaders don’t pay attention to what’s going on.”

Suzuki, reached by the National Post on Monday, said violence within the environmental movement is already happening, although he identified police actions against anti-logging protesters and anti-gas pipeline protesters as the culprits.

But, he neither supports this (wink wink), and blames Others

Asked whether or not he would support the bombing of pipelines, Suzuki said, “Of course not.”

“The violence is coming from the authorities, from government, from the RCMP,” said Suzuki. “They’re declaring war against those that are protesting.”

Piss off.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 23, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible bridge moving fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is No Tricks Zone, with a post on a climate model error that over-estimates the effects of CO2 by a factor of 5.

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Bummer: Language Barrier For “Immigrants” Is Seen As Exlusionary

By William Teach November 23, 2021 – 10:30 am

If someone is applying for citizenship to the U.S., one of the requirements is that they learn to speak and write English. The problem is, the government keeps bringing in people from all over the world who do not speak English, as well as allowing illegal aliens/migrants to cross the border and never leave. And a goodly chunk of them never bother to attempt to learn English beyond a few words. They expect us to accommodate them

Language barrier: Immigrant parents tell tales of exclusion

illegal alien DemocratPhiladelphia parents who don’t speak English say they’ve long been excluded from parts of their children’s education because of language barriers, something exacerbated by the pandemic and the return to in-person learning.

Parents told The Associated Press about students being used as translators despite federal prohibitions, incorrect telephone translations and poor communication about bullying. Experts say many other school districts have lagged in creating equitable systems for non-English speakers.

Philadelphia school officials said there has been progress, including sending communication in parents’ languages and hiring dozens more in-school interpreters called bilingual cultural assistants, or BCAs. They also said the district has robust guidance on requesting language help.

Still, problems persist.

Whose fault is that? The parents, most like those who are here illegally, could take the time to learn English. If you go to live in France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, whatever, for a year and haven’t bothered to learn the basics of the language, that’s on you.

Mandy, who asked the AP not to use her last name, struggled with returning her 10-year-old special needs son to in-person school but decided the virtual option didn’t offer enough support for parents who don’t speak English.

Mandy said her biggest language struggles were during special education meetings at her son’s previous school. She still spends hours translating reports into Mandarin because the district provides limited translations.

So, she blames the school for her failure to learn English?

English learners increased in the Philadelphia district to more than 16,500 in 2020, from around 12,000 in 2013, and nearly a quarter of people in Philadelphia older than 5 don’t speak English at home, according to census numbers.

Juntos, a Latino immigrant advocacy group in Philadelphia, surveyed families in 2020 about their pandemic concerns. Executive Director Erika Guadalupe Núñez said after basic needs, schooling was a major concern, including how to communicate with teachers who spoke only English.

Learn English? Why is this so hard? Oh, right, because Democrats are wackadoodle, and deem it raaaaacist to require residents from other countries to learn to communicate in the primary language.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights receives dozens of parental language complaints yearly. It issued guidance in 2015 on the legal obligation to communicate in parents’ languages, saying neither students nor untrained bilingual staff should translate.

And therein is the problem: we kowtow to the parents who aren’t attempting to learn to communicate.

Experts said districts everywhere have seen increases in non-English speakers. Dominic J. Ledesma, an educational justice researcher, said many districts try to provide what’s legally required without thinking about making schools an inclusive place for immigrant families.

“Legal compliance and civil rights compliance are just as important as the equity issues at stake. Those issues are really pervasive and systemic in nature and not limited to Philadelphia,” said Ledesma.

No, they aren’t just limited to Philly, but, as long as Democrats run the education system and support illegal immigration, it won’t change.

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Post COP26, Warmists Framing ‘Climate Change’ As A Health Issue Or Something

By William Teach November 23, 2021 – 8:02 am

This really isn’t about climate change, is it

COP26 finally framed climate change as a public health issue, experts say

As the dust settles on the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, health professionals are finally feeling acknowledged by the global climate community.

More than 100 doctors and nurses traveled to Glasgow earlier this month with a message for world leaders: Global warming is a leading threat to public health. And curbing planet-warming emissions is a prescription.

So, they took long, fossil fueled trips to Glasgow? Huh

That message resonated at COP26 more than it has at previous United Nations climate summits, according to experts who have been attending the talks for years.

“I have been coming to these for the last 12 years, and I have seen how certain topics have gained more relevance. And certainly public health is one of them,” Ramon Cruz, president of the Sierra Club’s board of directors, told The Climate 202.

“I have been coming to these for the last 12 years, and I have seen how certain topics have gained more relevance. And certainly public health is one of them,” Ramon Cruz, president of the Sierra Club’s board of directors, told The Climate 202.

Jeni Miller, executive director of the Global Climate and Health Alliance, who has gone to five U.N. climate summits, agreed with that assessment. She noted that the World Health Organization sponsored a health pavilion at COP26 for the first time in the organization’s history.

“The WHO pavilion sounds like maybe a small thing,” Miller told The Climate 202. “But it made health — in a very literal sense of the term — visible at the COP. It created a physical place that people could walk by and countries’ delegations could see.”

Even before the conference in Glasgow, there was a growing recognition in the medical profession that rising global temperatures imperil millions of lives.

The global temperatures have gone up a whopping 1.5F since 1850. And they’re fearmongering about this.

Miller said health professionals urged world leaders in Glasgow to meet the more ambitious goal of the 2015 Paris agreement: limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. “The science is clear that warming greater than that could be catastrophic for people’s health, and that every tenth of a degree averted matters,” she said.

Well, since the previous Spreading Awareness over the past 30+ years hasn’t worked to get people to give up their money, freedom, and choice, they want to try to frame it as a health issue, because maybe that will work.

Miller also noted that burning fossil fuels — a primary driver of climate change — releases air pollutants that can trigger asthma and other respiratory conditions. Fine-particle pollution from burning fossil fuels causes roughly 4 million people to die prematurely each year, research shows.

Except, it’s not CO2 that causes the pollution, but, they do not care, because scaremongering is one of the core talking points for the Cult of Climastrology.

The good news is that doctors increasingly are keeping climate effects in mind when treating patients, said Renee Salas, an emergency medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital who attended COP26.

“If you come in with an asthma attack to my emergency department, that’s your primary diagnosis. But yet … climate change is driving pollen levels to be higher, so it is actually a secondary diagnosis,” Salas said during a panel last week hosted by Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

This is just what you need, eh? Climahysteric doctors. How will they treat ‘climate change’?

“We need to make sure that health has an even more prominent stage at COP27,” Salas said, “and that it’s actually incorporated throughout discussions.”

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74% Of Americans Say Their Lives Have Returned To Normal From COVID

By William Teach November 23, 2021 – 7:51 am

How about you? Is your life back to normal? Mostly? Or are you one of those who’ve been vaccinated and wear a mask even when alone in the car?

Poll: As winter COVID surge begins, 74 percent of Americans say their lives have returned to ‘normal’

Even though the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage on, nearly three-quarters of Americans (74 percent) now say their lives have returned to “normal,” according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.

It’s a number that underscores both the progress made possible by safe and effective vaccines and the challenges ahead as the holidays approach and yet another winter wave gets underway in the United States.

The survey of 1,696 adults, which was conducted from Nov. 17 to 19, found that only 15 percent say that things “never stopped being normal” for them — a reminder of just how profoundly the virus has disrupted American life.

Yet as the U.S. pandemic enters its 21st month, most Americans now characterize their own lives as either “very normal” (21 percent) or “somewhat normal” (53 percent), considering “the impact of COVID-19.”

I’ll say it’s somewhat normal. Except there are still masking restrictions in my town, and the one I go to a lot that’s right next door. And there are things we do, and don’t do right now, at work. I’m perfectly fine with some social distancing, no shaking hands, no hugs. I don’t go the movies, but, then, there are almost no ones worth seeing in the theater (I would go to the afternoon showing, so, there would be very few people there). Of course, if we’re talking about the economic aftereffects, then we’re all affected. #LetsGoBrandon

Far fewer say their lives are either “not very normal” (19 percent) or “not normal at all” (7 percent).

In that light, a return to “normal” may seem premature — and for many, it very well could be. A full 70 percent of unvaccinated Americans, for instance — the people who continue to account for nearly all COVID hospitalizations and deaths — describe their own lives as normal, and about a quarter of them say their lives are “very normal” (25 percent) or “never stopped” being normal to begin with (27 percent). That’s more than the number of vaccinated Americans who say the same (19 percent and 8 percent, respectively).

Well, that’s why a lot of them are getting really sick and dying. COVID19 is real, and if you didn’t take protections, well, that’s on you.

Likewise, nearly two-thirds of unvaccinated Americans (65 percent) now say that COVID poses either a “small” threat (31 percent) or “no” threat (34 percent) to them personally, and just 42 percent of unvaccinated Americans — compared to 63 percent of fully vaccinated Americans — say they wear a mask in public always or most of the time.

And these 63% are the loons. If you’re vaccinated why wear a mask? These are most likely also the people who remove the mask to talk to someone in close quarters and then hug/bro hug. They’re the ones double masking and losing their shit when other people aren’t wearing a mask. Wearing it in the car. Wearing it but leaving their nose uncovered. Wearing a mask that makes almost no difference.

At the same time, however, it’s important to note that 71 percent of U.S. adults have been fully vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — and for them, returning to normal was both the point and the promise of getting vaccinated in the first place.

Yeah, that was the entire point, and the Powers That Be have worked hard to change the terms of why you get the vaccine, keeping restrictions on those who are vaccinated, scaring them into Complying.

And while only 30 percent of registered voters said they were planning to gather indoors with family and friends last Thanksgiving, 57 percent now say that’s how they’re planning to celebrate this year.

A lot of people are just over it. Over the Government restrictions, the over the top scaremongering. COVID is still dangerous. You might not die, you might not even get that sick, but, the effects can last for a long time. Being such hysterics, along with all over the place messaging, has made people tune out.

That goes a long way toward explaining why 77 percent of Democrats wear a mask most of the time in public, compared to just 31 percent of Republicans — despite the fact that similar numbers of Democrats (76 percent) and Republicans (82 percent) describe their own lives as normal.

Democrats like Government telling them what to do, and are the problem. Pure moonbat hysterics.

How to reconcile the return to normalcy with continued caution and even pessimism about the pandemic itself? Increasingly, Americans are learning to “live with” COVID by distinguishing between the risks to themselves and the risks to others.

Which is what they need to do. It’s not going fully away (thanks, China!). Live with it. So will be hysterics for years, though.

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Bummer: US Military Not Ready For Climate Crisis (scam) Or Something

By William Teach November 22, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Of all the things the U.S. military should be worried about, this isn’t even in the top 50

Senior Pentagon official warns the US military is ‘not ready’ for climate change

A senior Pentagon official warned the US military is “not ready” to handle climate change, a national security issue that touches nearly every aspect of Defense Department planning.

“We are not where we should be, and now is beyond the time when we need to get in front of that challenge,” Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks told CNN.

Beyond rising sea levels and extreme weather, climate change has opened up new areas of strategic competition like the Arctic and intensified the competition for scarce resources, such as the raw materials required to make the lithium-ion batteries crucial to electric vehicles.

“It’s something like $750 billion of investment worldwide going on in lithium-ion batteries,” Hicks said. “The challenge is most of that is happening in China. They dominate that supply chain. It’s a significant national security challenge for us.”

Hicks, the first woman to hold the Pentagon’s number two position, leads the military’s different efforts on climate change. On a recent two-day trip to Michigan, Connecticut and Rhode Island, Hicks saw work on the first generation of electric military vehicles, including an electric light reconnaissance vehicle at GM Defense.

But electric military vehicles pose their own set of challenges. Although an electric vehicle can be much quieter and emit less of a heat signature — critical advantages on a battlefield — it also needs to be recharged somehow. Refueling a gas vehicle requires supply lines to bring in the fuel, but it is still faster and more efficient than recharging an electric vehicle on a battlefield.

Meanwhile, our Woke military would be obliterated by the Chinese military, which is pushing the exact opposite of Woke. The U.S. military is more concerned with giving sex change garbage to transgenders and Woke uniforms and stuff, along with replacing vehicles that work with ones that don’t. Liberals have long wanted to destroy the U.S. military. They couldn’t defund it in the 70’s, now they’re destroying it from within.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 22, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is champagne which will SOON be grown in Norway due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post on the Christmas parade attacker being identified.

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