In more evidence of the growing EV debacle, the editorial board of the Las Vegas Review-Journal notes how an urgent Biden-era program to place charging stations all over the U.S. burned through US$7.5 billion to build precisely 68 of them. Even after the program was overhauled, the cost remained at US$19.5 million per station. The Review-Journal is, consequently, backing the Trump Administration’s policy to dismantle the entire structure of EV subsidies, tax incentives and mandates.
Blueprint for Alberta?
Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
