The Electric Vehicle Is Driving Away with Our Freedom

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

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Control Is the Aim, EVs Are the Game of the Moment

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

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Model T Lessons on Value Tell Us Why EVs Aren’t Selling

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,

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CARB States, EVs, Groupthink, Useful Idiots and “Science”

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

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EVs Aren’t Going Away, But They’re Hardly the Future!

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

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Speed Is No Issue Unless It’s About How Fast Our Liberty Is Being Lost

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

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Travel? You Want to Travel? Show Me Your Papers!

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

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Electric Car Pipe Dreams No Substitute for Reality

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

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California EV Dream A Nightmare for Freedom to Travel

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

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – July 4, 2020

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. Usual Suspects Oppose Economic Development in Northern Tier The pattern is always the same: The alliance Protect Northern PA has launched

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