The Electric Vehicle Is Driving Away with Our Freedom Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: Bob Tomaine destroys the myth that the electric vehicle is anything but an approaching disaster for freedom of the individuals and their right to travel at all.] Pigs and electric vehicles apparently have far more in common than
Read More...Control Is the Aim, EVs Are the Game of the Moment Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: Bob Tomaine takes a hard look at the EV game and finds a desire for control and lack of appreciation of the free market at the very heart of the matter.] From its lowliest municipal employee
Read More...Model T Lessons on Value Tell Us Why EVs Aren’t Selling Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: Bob Tomaine compares the values of Henry Ford’s Model T with todays electric vehicles, which are neither new nor valuable and offer only political correctness.] Few would dispute that while Henry Ford was a mercurial eccentric,
Read More...CARB States, Groupthink, Useful Idiots and “Science” Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: Pennsylvania is one of several CARB States. Who knew? Political groupthink, combined with useful idiots, is destroying science and not helping our lives.] The origin of the quip that “the beatings will continue until morale improves” is murky at best
Read More...EVs Aren’t Going Away, But They’re Hardly the Future! Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: EVs have a role to play in transportation but will only serve as dreamy replacement vehicles until blackouts and parking and range restrictions force a wakeup.] It hasn’t gotten much coverage in the so-called mainstream media, but more
Read More...Speed Is No Issue Unless It’s About How Fast Liberty Is Lost Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: Speed is the sprit of freedom and bureaucrats threatened by it once thought they could just con drivers out of it. Today, they’re trying to con drivers into EVs.] A speedometer by itself is not
Read More...Travel? You Want to Travel? Show Me Your Papers! Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: Our right to travel where we want is under attack by those who would make us serfs and restore feudalism, which is one of the primary goals of our ruling class.] Anyone who’s seen “The Perfect Storm” knows
Read More...Electric Car Pipe Dreams No Substitute for Reality Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: The idea electric cars can completely replace vehicles powered by internal combustion engines is – at its most innocent – a pipe dream. Too many believers in that dream are fooling nobody other than themselves.] There are times when laughing
Read More...California EV Dream A Nightmare for Freedom to Travel Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: California is always at the head of the pack in pursuing the worst ideas and its EV mandate will destroy freedom to travel. Is that the very idea behind it?] It’s grimly fascinating that Californians are being forced
Read More...Redlining Rural Fossil Fuel Production Areas: The Real ESG! Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: Redlining is more than mortgage discrimination against the disadvantaged; itthe ESG version is blanket bigotry against mostly rural areas who produce our energy.] Sometimes, it’s best to think of “politics” not as an activity or as a system
Read More...Carter Malaise Suddenly Looking Better Under Joe Biden! Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: Jimmy Carter was more or less destroyed by his “Malaise Speech” but some of his energy ideas were positively brilliant compared to Joe Biden’s dark age idiocy.] Just over 43 years ago, President Jimmy Carter made history when he
Read More...Biden Speaks As We All Look for the Red Panic Button! Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: When Joe Biden speaks, it’s hard to listen in the sense of paying attention, yet we are forced to hear, as if we just accidentally hit our car’s panic button.] Listening to President Biden speaking about
Read More...Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOWContributing Writer [Editor’s Note: NaturalGasNOW started eight years ago and now has published over 5,000 posts with no factual rebuttal worthy of the term as the shale revolution keeps rolling!] As a frequent reader of NaturalGasNow and an occasional contributor, it’s been fascinating to look at not only the content of some
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