Earth Day Sermon for UUFD
In the end, our children’s children will not care why we didn’t act-only that we didn’t.
Surely they will wonder why they were not important enough.
House budget bill sets out Trump’s EV objectives; they are not good for EVs or Trump’s industrial policies
The House-passed budget bill makes a number of substantive EV policy changes, which will set back the adoption of EVs. This has been expected and will understandably have negative effects on climate change, accelerating the frequency and severity of natural disasters, air pollution, health, home insurance costs, endangerment of species, …
A year ago, major media outlets were blaming consumers for a slump in US EV sales; did that actually happen?
Near the end of 2023, mainstream print media outlets (Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post) were conveying the storyline that US consumers were not buying EVs at the rate expected of them by the legacy producers, causing the manufacturers to delay or suspend their EV investments. For example, …
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EV car policies often start in California (Colorado often follows suit)
Two recent developments in EV policy emerged first in California. What do they mean to us here in the Four Corners? The first bolsters bidirectional home charging. In September, California Governor Gavin Newsome signed into law a requirement that new EVs to be sold in California must be capable of …
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A Century of Scumbagery
A short history of General Motor’s fraught relationship with non-petroleum automobiles.