The Green New Deal is Fantasy

David Harsanyi says Welcome To The Green New Deal, California. <sarcasm>And Californians, you're going to love, love, love it.  Yeah! You're going to have electric cars, but you won't be able to charge them because there won't be any electricity. Isn't that great?</sarcasm>

Now, we know that Californians seemingly vote for the most ridiculous things, like prosecutors who vow not to enforce the law. Why? If you don't want the law enforced, just get rid of the prosecutor entirely and save the money for other things, like drugs for addicts. Yeah, that's the idea. But note that nobody voted for this electric car mandate. Therefore, it was not done with the consent of the governed.  So Califonia is running an illegitimate terrorist state.  Pray for those stuck in that state.

To make matters worse, other states have adopted California regulations, again without te consent of the governed in their states either. Thus states like the Commonwealth of Virginia blindly follow the California Air Resources Board (CARB) without recognizing that the geography of California and Virginia are very different, and Virginians deserve to have teir own elected representatives determine such things.

Thus the Green New Deal is being illegitimately imposed by fiat. Harsanyi proves the point with empirical evidence:

If there was any real big organic demand for EVs, the federal government wouldn't have to keep massively subsidizing -- bribing -- the industry into manufacturing them, and California wouldn't have to mandate you to buy them. Less than 1% of cars, SUVs and light trucks on the road in the United States are electric. Right now, electric cars are for wealthy people more concerned about pricey virtue-signaling than functionality. A recent University of California at Berkeley study, for example, found that 90% of tax credits for electric cars go to people in the top income quintile.

That's fine. Knock yourself out. But Democrats are rigging the market to force you to buy a car that has a 200-mile reach and uses erratic and expensive energy when you already have increasingly efficient models in your driveway and tens of billions of easily accessible barrels of offshore fossil fuels here at home -- and much more around the world. We have centuries' worth of the stuff waiting in the ground. Which gives us enough time to come up with some better ideas. Because, sorry, transitioning away from modernity and into windmills, choo-choo trains, folding fans and candles isn't progress; it's regression. And California is leading the way.

We need to boot these fantasist out.