You'll never run out of reasons not to buy an EV. The most compelling reason being they're vulnerable to spontaneous combustion, and when that happens, the fire cannot be put out. Don't park one in your house.
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June 04, 2026
February 13, 2026
Climate Foolishness Out, Industry In
The Greens will be spewing, but the trend now is to rollback all the net-zero nonsense and get back to making stuff, and using clean, efficient energy derived from coal, natural gas, and nuclear. Add to that hydro and geothermal where possible.
Something we are not going to able to do is power an industrial economy using solar and wind. That's because the energy from these sources is far too dispersed. These sources of energy are uneconomic.
Get with the programme, industrialise.
The Environmental Protection Agency or EPA's new rule cancels a 2009 "endangerment finding" which says that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. The Obama-finding is the legal basis for most climate rules under the Clean Air Act covering emissions from cars, power plants and other sources that warm the planet. Court challenges are expected.
The repeal wipes out all greenhouse gas standards for cars and trucks and could open the door to rolling back on rules on power plants and oil and gas sites, according to experts.
January 26, 2026
Now It's AI, Forget Net-Zero
Have you noticed how, suddenly, no one is pushing all that net-zero nonsense? Yeah, turns out priorities have changed and none of that matters. Now, the new shiny thing is AI. It requires huge amounts of energy, so let's burn more coal. You cannot make this up; it is that shameless and utterly corrupt.
November 08, 2025
Coal, Energy Security and Electricity Prices
Here's an excellent description of the link between coal and electricity prices. As the world has chased the Net Zero nonsense, the price of electricity has risen sharply.
November 05, 2025
New Zealand EV Sales
Don't believe the hype, EVs are toast. The subsidies have ended, and guess what, they don't stack up as a sensible purchase.
June 25, 2025
Oil and Gas New Zealand
New Zealand shut down its only oil refinery and California is now experiencing a similar conundrum, with two large refineries announcing they're shutting down. The issues raised in the embedded discussion apply to NZ almost exactly. Wind and solar won't do it, and areas with oil shows and earthquake activity are ideal areas for productive oil fields. NZ has a lot of both.
Peculiarly, NZ does have a vast resource of wood waste from its large forestry industry. This could be used to produce biofuels, but I'm not aware of anyone doing it. Weird huh. Yeah, not so weird because the wind and solar industries hold the politicians captive, especially the Greens. Big Green capital skews the market and so all commonsense evaporates when they start talking. I hear people say wind and solar are great, but what they miss is that they do not pack enough punch.
March 19, 2025
March 01, 2025
January 24, 2025
Britain Gone Insane?
A private members bill in the UK seeks to remove 90% of fossil fuels from the economy within the next few years. About 200 MP's support the proposal. Such a law would cause mass starvation and complete societal collapse. You wouldn't find this in a sci-fi movie as it would be too ridiculous:
December 22, 2024
2025
Well, that's about it for 2024. It was my year of action, I got more done in 2024 than I have got done in the twenty years prior.
What a year overall, culminating in a US Presidential election victory that was simply too overwhelming to rig. Who'd of thunk.
But, we are not out of the woods yet. We have that weirdo Keir Starmer in Britain being a treacherous and rather loathsome individual, and not being forthcoming about his private life, and basically when he's not being forthcoming, he's being an authoritarian prick and servant of the WEF. Then, Justin Trudeau in Canada, another weasel. But let's not forget Macron in France and that Ursula Lyin Bitch, or whatever her name is.
This year, I've been about 50/50 on my predictions, so what about 2025 ahead? Well, there will be many rigged elections, rigged professional sporting encounters (I'm looking at you NBA), and scamdemics, which are epidemics that are just the flu rebranded.
The whole make everyone a prisoner in their own towns and cities will continue to be rolled out, possibly linked to an app on your smart phone that is constantly listening to you. That app will track your social credit score and measure your carbon footprint. Exceed that carbon score, and you'll not be able to buy meat via your credit card in what will become a cashless economy. Say hurty words online and your travel will be curtailed, no visiting grandma in hospital because you called someone an arse licking dickhead, even if the statement was true.
Farmers may even become a proscribed occupation and enemy of the people. We can see this plan being rolled out even as I write this. Wake up farmers, ya dickheads (see what I did there?).
A lot to look forward to then; clear blue skies and lots of carbon everywhere, including you and I, carbon life forms all, maybe we are the carbon 'they' want to reduce..hmm?
March 07, 2024
February 13, 2024
Carbon Passports
How long will it take before you become the carbon they want to reduce?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/leo-hohmann-report-calls-limits-air-travel/
Their ideal world is digitized, downsized, dehumanized, depopulated and generally feudal in nature. If they succeed in imposing their ideal system on the world, we will see millions starved to death by their war on food and farmers. Thank God the farmers in Europe have awakened to the real purpose of the climate scam, which is to destroy their livelihoods and their ability to feed the world. If these globalist scum succeed, most of us will not live to see 2040. And those who manage to survive in their dehumanized, top-down, control-grid society will be either rich or poor, with very little in between. This is a war on the middle class, on traditional values, on the value of work and the nuclear family.
July 31, 2023
Exposing the Climate Scam
July 30, 2023
War on the Working Class
The reality is that measures intended to address climate change will adversely impact the most vulnerable people.
July 13, 2023
June 07, 2023
Rowan Atkinson on EV's
Rowan Atkinson has published a comment piece in England, addressing issues with EV's. He's mostly right and he touches on issues I've also raised on my blog. You can read some of these views here: https://kenhorlor.blogspot.com/2018/07/why-electric-cars-are-no-good.html and here: https://kenhorlor.blogspot.com/2019/03/ev-nonsense-just-wont-go-away.html
YouTuber, Geoff Buys Cars breaks down what Atkinson is saying in the embedded video below. Bear in mind that Atkinson has a degree in Electric and Electronic Engineering and an MSc from Oxford University....
April 15, 2023
The Near Future
This is where we are headed; freedom of movement will disappear this year or next. We had lockdowns educate everyone on you do not have the right of freedom of movement. Then, with the jab mandates you do not have the right to bodily autonomy. So, now the government and their criminal cohort are going to lock you up, permanently.
Geoff Buys Cars outlines how this is coming into effect in England. This is real, not a vague proposal, it is happening. In New Zealand, the right to freedom of movement will be gone soon. I'd add, that's why the failing infrastructure, and ignoring flood damage. No need you see, as roads will not be used, but if you do use them you'll be charged inordinate sums to do so.July 16, 2022
How the West brought economic disaster on itself
