As you sit inside trying to keep warm, it’s a good time to contemplate our creaky electrical grid and the additional wounds being inflicted upon it by crazed environmentalist bureaucratic virtue signalers.
If they get their wish, before long we’ll be huddling in the dark and recalling the bad old days of cheap power and personal freedom.
In my neck of the woods, the temperature is up about 25 degrees from two days back, but still sits in the mere teens.
Large parts of this nation are experiencing cold not seen at this point in the calendar for 40 years, or more.
Over the weekend, snow fell ahead of an NFL game between Green Bay and Miami. This would not have been notable except for the fact the game was played in Florida, not Wisconsin.
Another NFL game the past weekend began an hour late due to rolling blackouts in Tennessee. A friend of my brother’s confirmed to him she was shivering without power for an hour or so at a time.
And all the while environmentalist crazies are lobbying to shut down power plants and force us all into electric cars, the better to further their agenda.
When will the populace rise up and stop allowing environmental policy to be dictated by a young foreign girl with mental problems, or rich guys like John Kerry who spew carbon from their private jets and they wing around the world lecturing us about saving the environment?
Aided and abetted by Clueless Joe Biden, the move is on to set back our standard of living to the Stone Age. There is a war on against fossil fuels and farting cows, ostensibly to make things better for all.
But freezing, being unable to travel, paying sky high energy bills, is not better in my book.
A cornerstone of the so-called Green Movement is the electric car.
Consider the case of the guy in Virginia who chronicled on social media his unsuccessful efforts to re-charge his Tesla Model S on Christmas Eve. For more than 24 hours he tried at home, then at a so-called supercharger facility and got nowhere. He just gave up, abandoning the car and waiting for warmer weather.
His experience is not the exception. Cold weather reduces the range of electric vehicles severely.
Even when things are warmer, electric vehicles have serious drawbacks. Just ask the owners of those new Ford electric pickup trucks, who see the power gauge fall rapidly when the vehicles are asked to do truck-like things such as pull a trailer.
The climate alarmists have been flat-out wrong about global warming and they now gather under the banner of climate change. That way, anything that happens – cold, heat, rain, dry, windy, calm – means they are right.
By now, if we were to believe the inconveniently wrong documentary of Al Gore, coastal cities should be underwater. The world should be one smoldering cinder.
Back when I was in high school, scare-mongering media predicted another ice age. About 50 years or so later, still waiting. Maybe now?
Some explain the current cold as having to do with solar conditions, a so-called Maunder Minimum. This is being disputed by lapdog media and social media censors because it doesn’t fit the narrative.
Neither does the current cold snap, but don’t let reality intrude.
We’re being fed a bunch of bullspit by elites who never need to fear rolling blackouts as they hang out in their gated estates. That’s why the Obamas “need” 2,500 gallons of propane storage at their $11.8 million shack on Martha’s Vineyard.
Get wise people. Quit licking the boots of the elite unless you like getting kicked in the face – while you shiver in the darkness they induced.
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