Nobody, especially Americans, likes being told what to do. Likes being told they HAVE to do something because of “something something Science™” that is exponentially above and beyond the acceptable reach of government intrusions, disrupting and detrimental to the very fabric of our standard of living by an order of magnitude unthinkable to anyone with an ounce of common sense, and yet we simple peasants paying the bills are not deemed worthy nor sufficiently percipient to be consulted concerning these plans.

The courses are charted by our betters – sometimes even legislated, but more often regulations are just decreed, and then implementation begins. Ignoring the howls of the serfs in the fallows and fields who pay for it all – literally and figuratively – this Brahmin class charges ahead imposing upon their subjects immutable strictures, sacrosanct edicts, and quasi-religious rules – mutual graft plus a thirst for ultimate control combined with an unholy belief system, and packaged for public consumption as an emotional cause célèbre.

SUCK IT UP FOR THE COMMON GOOD…OR WE ALL DIE AND IT’S YOUR FAULT

Interestingly enough, signs are everywhere that climate cultists unrestrained dictating of a more miserable future for all is running into real headwinds, both human and natural. Particularly when those determined to reduce an average American’s standard of living that was – and still is – the envy of the world appear have done so on the basis of questionable, and what many believe to be manipulated, Science™.

Americans are also now in possession of evidentiary results. We have seen New Green transitional measures implemented and enforced which simply don’t measure up to the promises made. Most have proven to be the polar ice cap opposite of the Greener Glory – more expensive, less reliable, and deleterious to a standard of living we have every right to expect to maintain. It also hurts the cult case when we’re told our lying eyes do not see what they’re seeing.

We’ve heard them warble about magic hats and rabbits, and it has yet to ever be the bunny they’ve tried to sell us.

On the human side, people can resort to pitchforks and torches at repeated prevarications and deprivations where there should be none but most initially prefer to use passive-aggressive measures. Like, say, with the big EV push. Most Americans don’t want one, so they’re just not buying them – the hype or the vehicles.

The pace has slowed dramatically, and industry types are starting to believe that might be all the “there” that’s there, even with more schweet federal cha-ching thrown at it from all sides. You know it had to hurt the WaPo to publish this.

EV transition cools as demand slows and automakers trim production
Concerns about charging infrastructure are holding back some buyers as the market awaits the arrival of federally subsidized charging stations

The Biden administration’s push to entice more Americans to buy electric vehicles is falling short of expectations as consumers fret over prices, battery range and a lack of charging stations.

U.S. sales of fully electric cars are still growing at a fast clip — they are up by more than 50 percent this year over 2022 — but automakers say growth has slowed in recent months, prompting them to trim their production plans and pause some investments.

…“Automakers have moved from rosy to reality because consumer acceptance has grown more slowly. So they are looking at kind of slowing their rollout,” said Michelle Krebs, an industry analyst with Cox Automotive. The transition to EVs is “not going to be linear and there are going to be a lot of bumps in the road,” she added.

…“The narrative has taken over that EVs aren’t growing. They’re growing,” Ford Chief Financial Officer John Lawler said in October. “It’s just growing at a slower pace than the industry and quite frankly, we, expected.”

Charging issues are one of the biggest hurdles and, for everyone but Tesla, they fail miserably.

…Improving the sparse and often faulty public charging network is vital to broadening the EV market beyond tech-savvy, upper-income buyers to include more middle-income Americans unwilling to tolerate inconvenience just for the sake of going electric, experts say.

Early adopters are “very accepting of faults in new technology,” said Nick Nigro, founder of Atlas Public Policy, which conducts research on climate and tech issues. “Everyday people aren’t like that. If the charger doesn’t work when you plug in, even if the issue is just you have to try again, that’s not going to work.”

For the majority of Americans, an EV is not a “practical” purchase. For it to become so, the manufacturers should have made “charging up” practically painless.

And now it’s painfully clear that the general public is pretty happy where they are as far as vehicles go, no matter what manufacturers have planned with all that government money. General Motors recently found out this year with a program that gave Buick dealerships the option for a buy-out if they were unwilling to spend the $300-400K it was going to cost to upgrade their shops to be able to service and repair the EVs that Buick would soon be rolling out. The brand plans on being all-electric by 2030.

Almost half of the Buick dealerships in the country said, “We are out.”

More EV disaster.👇

Car dealers would rather sell their businesses than sell EVs.https://t.co/vDfiGtkxEL pic.twitter.com/aDrCvbT4YT

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) December 21, 2023

States are getting some hard lessons in regards to mandates about EV purchases and sales. We’ve covered CA’s madness plenty, but their learning curve doesn’t seem to stop states from forging forward. Even, inexplicably, states where the vast, empty distances, and brutal winter weather don’t exactly lend themselves to EVs. States like Maine, which is considering a truly radical and controversial shift in auto sales legislation in fealty to the Climate Cult.

The Maine Board of Environmental Protection (Maine BEP) is considering adopting the CALIFORNIA(!) “Clear Car Program” – the whole thing. But couching the language in such a way that they can skirt legislative oversight for adoption.

Classic, no?

Earlier this fall, the Maine BEP took a straw vote of 4-2 in favor of adopting California’s Advanced Clear Car Program — a set of rules requiring that 43% of new cars sold in Maine be ZEVs by model year 2027 and 82% by model year 2032.

A final vote could not be taken by the board until members had officially responded to the more than a thousand public comments that had been offered in relation to the proposed rule change.

…One major point of contention concerning the proposed vehicle emissions regulations is their classification as “routine technical” as opposed to “major substantive.”

While “routine technical” changes are not subject to legislative oversight, “major substantive” ones are.

…Because the new vehicle emissions standards have been classified by the Maine BEP as routine technical, they were not subjected to legislative review.

Had they been categorized as major substantive, these new regulations could not be formally adopted until after they had undergone legislative review — meaning that lawmakers would need to enact legislation authorizing their adoption before they could go into effect.

The BEP buffoons were going to have a little meeting to vote on the whole thing just before Christmas.

In the meantime, any word how electric transportation anything is doing in Maine in winter?

OH

Winthrop Public Schools (WPS) is struggling to keep its fleet of four electric school buses on the road due to water leak issues and heating system failures, according to a Wednesday transportation report to the WPS School Board.

…WPS along with several other Maine school districts received the electric buses as part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s $5 billion “Clean School Bus Program,” launched in October 2022, which has a goal of transitioning all public school bus fleets to 75 percent all-electric buses by 2035. As part of this program, the district reportedly gave up a diesel bus for each new electric one.

Winthrop received its four buses from Lion Electric in September, and three out of the four are tied up awaiting repairs.

…According to the report, the heating systems in three out of the four buses have failed.

WPS transportation director Josh Wheeler wrote in the report that he believes the district needs “to consider alternative plans to replace these vehicles long term.”

That seems to have worked out just great, and I’m sure no one saw it coming. What school child needs heat on a bus in winter – hell. What schoolchild needs a bus in winter?

Walk, you big babies.

Our lying eyes…and tax dollars.

In the meantime, how’d the sniveling workarounds on that BEP board vot…oh, wait. They didn’t.

Mother Nature and “winter” had a message for the cultists.

You see, the power was out – for almost 4 days in some locations.

A Monday storm in Maine resulted in a power outage so great its Board of Environmental Protection postponed a vote on electric vehicle mandates Thursday.

Rain across 14 of Maine’s 16 counties resulted in floods and an emergency order from Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME). Affected counties lost power as trees fell on power lines and towers were knocked over. While Central Maine Power was able to restore 92% of its customers by Thursday evening, BEP opted to postpone its meeting indefinitely.

As of Wednesday afternoon there were still over 200K people without power in a state with a total population of under 1.4M. That’s a fair amount of folks – what if they all had plug-ins?

Maine cancels vote on #EVs after state is hit with widespread power outages and flooding and 14 Counties are declared disaster areas. Maine governor was pushing her green energy agenda. They have not rescheduled the vote. pic.twitter.com/JczkZ3axYn

— Mark Dosd 🇺🇸 (@MGDosd) December 21, 2023

“Indefinitely.” Go figure.

"I'm kind of delighted that there was a wakeup call given to certain people this past week." Maine resident, John Barkley, on the irony of a massive storm knocking out nearly the whole state of Maine’s power grid delaying a vote on an EV mandate. | @dagenmcdowell @SeanDuffyWI pic.twitter.com/PxzPZkxrgv

— The Bottom Line (@BottomLineFBN) December 23, 2023

I wouldn’t be so sure that it’s a “wake-up” call to the BEP. If I know proggy cultists, they’re fuming at the gods that spoiled their carefully laid plans.

No, this was another truth-cleaver gifted to the level headed people among the citizens of Maine. A last minute reprieve from the progressive sword hanging over their heads, and an instrument they’d best wield every time this subject resurfaces, as it most certainly will.

They have a chance to save themselves from these people and the whackjob they elected.

Cleaver’s in their court and all signs point to “chop.”