“The Great Reset”

I AM so sick of hearing about the petrol shortage. Suspiciously timed to coincide with the Government’s attempts to make us switch from traditional to battery-powered vehicles, the hyped-up fuel crisis is yet another example of the reign of terror which drives us to behave in ways that promote an official agenda.

We already see soaring prices, empty store shelves, shortages of critical products, factories shut down, workers unemployed, and people freezing in their homes. Soon, progressives will be blaming capitalism itself and demanding more government controls if not the outright seizure of the means of production. But in fact, these disruptions to what had been a smoothly operating integrated global economy that had raised hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in the last three decades are all due to progressive policies being enforced by those very governments that stand ready to seize even more power over our lives.

As petrol stations in parts of the UK started running out of fuel on Friday, business at Martin Miller’s electric car dealership in Guildford, Surrey, started soaring.

After what ended up being his company EV Experts busiest day ever, interest does not appear to be dying down. This week the diary is booked up with test drives and the business is low on stock.

“People buy electric cars for environmental reasons, for cost-saving reasons and because the technology’s great,” he said. “But Friday was one of those moments where people said, ‘Do you know what, this is a sign that we need to go electric’.”

… So what’s going on? What’s happening to world energy markets in nations not shielded by being energy independent is what’s known as a “transition premium.” Transitioning to renewable energy sources is going to cost us.

While billionaires like Bill Gates buy up all the nation’s farmland, Wall Street investors snatch up every home they can get their hands on.

For Father’s Day a few years back, my wife and kids surprised me with a trip to Medieval Times, an immersive dinner theater featuring staged Arthurian-styled games, such as sword-fighting and jousting. Anyone can enjoy the forgotten age of kings and queens for a reasonable price, at least for an evening.

h/t JC

Returning to pre-pandemic normality won’t fix structural disadvantages

Young people have suffered immensely during the pandemic. A 70% spike in demand for mental health services, a rise in financial insecurity and accounting for over 80% of the jobs lost in the past year have all contributed to feelings of isolation, alienation and despair. Now, as double vaccinated adults book their summer holidays, the young must again wait.

How’s this for taking a leftist lemon and trying to make lemonade from it?

Leftist columnists closely aligned with Democrats and their policies are now praising unaffordable home prices and the coming U.S. future as a renter nation.

They think that all of us deplorables out there would actually prefer to pay landlords overpaying for homeownership.

All that is on offer to the young is a lifetime in rental accommodation

According to the US house journal for Big Finance, the reason today’s young people remain in rental accommodation long past the point when previous generations had bought their own home, is because they don’t want to be tied down.

The generation that’s postponing or giving up on family formation and kids because of financial insecurity actually loves its fluid, flexible, move-at-the-drop-of-a-hat lifestyle.