John Hinderaker:
The average cost of electricity generated by wind turbines has almost doubled in three years, and yet governments continue their irrational policies that can only drive the cost of power higher. The one thing that could make the situation catastrophically worse is if governments imposed drastic new demand on the electric power grid by making us all drive electric vehicles. But no, they could never be that stupid. Could they?
David Strom:
Teachers are experts not only in their subject fields, but in teaching itself. They know their students. Know what they need to know and how it should be taught. And, just like doctors, we should defer to their expertise. This is one of the more successful lines of attack when schools are criticized—parents don’t know about education, so shut up and let the experts do their work.
The claim on its face is absurd for many reasons, but let’s start with the most obvious: almost all the teachers making these claims are dyed-haired freaky looking millennials who are experts in pretty much nothing at all except claims of oppression. They are obsessed with spouting off poorly understood ideologies, sexualizing children to the point of grooming them, and separating children from their parents.
John Hinderaker:
Fossil fuels have done more for humanity than virtually anything else. The transition from horses, donkeys and carts to the modern world is essentially the transition from wind and solar energy to fossil fuels. Our entire civilization, the fact that we live mostly by our wits rather than through back-breaking, soul-killing, and horrifically unproductive labor, is due mainly to fossil fuels.
