By David Glenn Cox
The Texas Board of Education, an oxymoron if I ever heard one. The board has rejected science textbooks because they were portraying fossil fuels in a less than positive light. And the publishing companies involved, which produced them, had a too friendly of an environmental policy. Texas – Fossil Fuels? No surprise, Kentucky used to be famous for cheap cigarettes.
Firstly, It’s Texas and the eighth grade. Who remembers anything from an eighth-grade science textbook? The state is defending the Alamo, yet again. No sacred cow tipping allowed! You can’t bad mouth oil in Texas, it’s a part of their identity. Like cowboy hats, alcoholism, pickup trucks, and domestic violence.
Just having the debate already speaks of their eventual defeat. Fighting against the future with censorship. Lock the doors and turn off the lights and pretend we’re not home. Maybe, if we don’t tell them about climate change or sex, they won’t find out. Maybe, we can hide the truth from them with shitty textbooks that teach them exactly what we want. If you have to alter your textbooks because the truth offends you, you’ve already lost.
There is a mythology among Conservative circles that says climate change is all just a big liberal scam. A bunch of pencil pushers and one worlder’s got together and plotted. So, it naturally follows any innovation or improvement which is environmentally cleaner or cheaper. Which displaces fossil fuels is a part of that secret cabal and the secret conspiracy of flaming liberals. Trying to deprive us all of the wonders of fossil fuel horsepower.
Egg heads and know nothing, scientists secretly plotting with George Soros and Hillary Clinton to ruin everyone’s fun. Just for the meanness of it! The Beach Boys can’t carry their surfboards to the beach in a Tesla or a Prius.
Why trust scientists when you have that guy on Fox News? (Missing; one small, minded TV commentator. Answers to the name of Tucker. Smells like chicken. If found, keep it to yourself.)
They see electric cars as a plot being forced down honest hard-working Merican throats. All because of this secret order whispering secret orders into the manufacturer’s ears. Secret orders sent out to auto manufacturers worldwide to push electric vehicles and if anyone doesn’t like it, that’s tough!
It has nothing to do with Tesla’s flying off the car lot at three times the rate of General Motors cars, it’s the deep state working its wicked will again. Forcing these giant for-profit corporations into spending billions of shareholder dollars on cars, nobody wants.
Every car company on earth is building or planning to build an electric vehicle or three. It’s not a plot, it’s the future. Like tomorrow, it’s coming like it or not. In the early days of the 20th Century when farm boys tinkered with gasoline contraptions in the barn, electric vehicles held a sizable market share. The problem with electric cars being, 50% of Americans didn’t have electricity at home and most Americans lived in the country where people didn’t have electricity at home.
There was little innovation available between a lead-acid battery and an electric motor, what could a farm boy innovate? But one technological innovation leads to another unexpected innovation. The rise of cell phone technology prompted a rise of new battery technology. I’m not going to carry that brick telephone around with me charging it all day. I want something easy to carry with power that lasts all day long.
Suddenly, the electric car became more than feasible. Not on orders from Big Brother up on high but from a technical battery innovation. The most expensive component of any automobile is the engine and transmission, remove it and you are saving cost. Batteries are relatively cheap and easy to manufacture, while combustion engines are costly and technically challenging to build.
I remember when they first came out with LED light bulbs, and the same people were squawking about the cost of the new bulbs. But as the market share rose the costs fell and the bulb in my reading lamp is over three years old. Damn big govment!
But I call it the “Grandpa syndrome” : The denial and rejection of any new innovation. Join the anti-microwave league today! Remember 5G was going to make us all crazy and sterile and not in that order. Vaccines would make you magnetic and disrupt your DNA! It’s all a plot! It’s all a plot! Mickey Mouse is a tool to indoctrinate our children. Soylent Green is made of people! Ahhh! Don’t board that ship! To Serve Man is a cookbook!
Fear based media has convinced them that everybody is out to get them. Except for their good friends at the fossil fuel industry and their friends in the Republican Party and Fox News. “They is trying to groom is our children into being liberals and homosexuals with unflattering remarks about the fossil fuel industry.” Deep State! Deep State!
I can hardly wait, “The future is a fair for all and no fair for anybody!” I’m waiting for the Trans-Siberian orchestra to be banned for having “Trans” in their name. Or an orchestra formed of Trans becoming the Trans trans, Siberian orchestra. The sky’s the limit, and everything is bigger in Texas. And with Texas state help and Texas state funding maybe the state can prevent all knowledge of climate change from being passed on to Texas students until at least high school or maybe not at all.
Knowledge is power! A lack of knowledge is Republican power.
“Animals without backbones hid from each other or fell down. Clamasaurs and oysterettes appeared as appetizers. Then came the sponges, which sucked up about 10% of all life. Hundreds of years later, in the late devouring period, fish became obnoxious. Trailerbites, chiggerbites and mosquitoes collided aimlessly in the dense gas. Finally, tiny edible plants sprang up in rows giving birth to generations of insecticides and other small dying creatures.” – The Firesign Theater
“Back from the shadows again, out where an Injun’s your friend! Where the vegetables are green, and you can pee right in the stream (And that’s Important!) Yes, we’re going back to the shadows again!”
These Firesign Theater boys were supposed to be comedians, not Nostradamus.
This Carbon Based Life 
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