Don't Charge Your Electric Vehicles and Definitely Don't Charge Your E-Bikes

<p>The U.K. Conservatives have elected a new PM, Lizz Truss, who doesn't like to look at solar panels. Battery fires get E-Bikes banned in New York City public housing. California pays poorer people not to own cars. General Motors offers to buy out Buick dealers who don't want to get with the electric future. A word for all the awefull people who fear a green future. California suffers its worst drought in twelve hundred years and you can't put gas in a gas car without electricity.</p> <p>Also this week:</p> <ul> <li>Pipeline patrol planes</li> <li>Russia cuts off the gas yet again</li> <li>American Top 40 used to get sent to radio stations on vinyl LPs says Brian</li> <li>Germany offers cheap train passes to offset high energy prices</li> <li>France is looking to cut energy use by 10% which means lowering the thermostat to 19 degrees/66 F.</li> <li>Ethanol plants can give off terrible pollution that is harmful.</li> <li>Tesla Canadian factory rumors.</li> <li>All about <strong>Metathesiophobia</strong> from a Chevy Bolt owner</li> <li>Feedback on our light pollution episode from May</li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">End-of-life batteries from electric vehicles are not likely to be the primary source of recyclable material until the mid-2030s, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump goes on nonsensical rant about electric cars: 'We need to rid of them'</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Four years of Boston Consulting Group’s US electric vehicle sales forecasts, compiled by RecurrentAuto show how bad EV adoption predictions are. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Electric school buses in Massachusetts provided energy back to the grid for more than 80 hours this summer, helping to reinforce the grid during some of the hottest summer days when electricity was most in demand.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">10 of 13 ‘Flagship’ CCS Projects Failed to Deliver, IEEFA Analysis Concludes.</span></li> </ul> <p>Thank