We doubt you’ve heard about this. For it is the latest in a long line of developments that run counter to the command narrative put forth by the government’s command economists attempting to command the world to go “green.”
The Cowboy State Daily (www.cowboystatedaily.com) media outlet reported last month that the largest electric vehicle charging station in the world is powered by – wait for it – diesel-powered generators.
As the Daily’s Kevin Killough reports it (citing various other investigative reports):
“The Harris Ranch Tesla Supercharger station is an impressive beast. With 98 charging bays, the facility in Coalinga, Calif., is the largest charging station in the world. But to provide that kind of power takes something solar can’t provide — diesel generators.”
You just can’t make this stuff up. Remember this as “greenies” and their government acolytes — including in Pittsburgh and across Pennsylvania — attempt to turn out the taxpayer pockets for evermore “green” subsidies in the name of “saving the planet.”
It remains, in reality, a dedicated effort in social re-engineering and wealth redistribution. And more government control.
The California crock is not an outlier, per Killough, who cites another in a long litany of bogus “green accomplishments”:
“Energy analyst and writer David Blackmon, author of the ‘Energy Transition Absurdities,’ told Cowboy State Daily that the use of diesel-powered generators is not limited to the Harris Ranch station.
“He used to shop at a Whole Foods in Houston. The company had installed a charging station in front of the store for its customers.
“’It was the best parking spot in the lot, and it crowded out a bunch of handicap spaces,’ Blackmon said.
“He said there were diesel generators behind the store and whenever someone was using the chargers, the generators would kick on.”
This would be funny — if the macro consequences weren’t so dastardly.
Government, with one hand, holds the cudgel of “The State” high over the head of American industry to plow resources and its very future into unsustainable “green energy” while, with the other hand, greasing their palms with bribes (i.e., taxpayer subsidies) to make it look like a marketplace-based decision.
Such government destruction of the free market will not end well. And, tragically, such government interventionism at just about all levels has become as ubiquitous as it is insidious.
Lest we forget, more and more government interventions will be “needed” to cover up the lie of each past, failed government intervention. It is bankruptcy, moral and economic.
That the prophets of such “progress” continue to preach its supposedly manifest benefits is more Orwellian than even Orwell himself could imagine.
Colin McNickle is communications and marketing director at the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy (cmcnickle@alleghenyinstitue.org).
