MEDIA Published April 24, 2024 5:00am EDT
EVs, climate agenda are a national security threat used 'to weaken us and ultimately destroy us,' expert warns
Electric vehicles pose environmental problems and national security issues and compromise the safety of drivers, former CIA operations officer says
 
By Kendall Tietz FOXBusiness

Bryan Dean Wright breaks down how EVs pose a national security threat to the US
The former CIA officer and host of the podcast ‘The Wright Report’ broke down how China controls the EV industry and plans to flood the U.S. market in an attempt to dismantle America’s national security.

Electric vehicles are often touted as the green alternative to gas-powered vehicles, but one expert believes that if people knew the truth about EVs, they would think twice before purchasing one.


Bryan Dean Wright, a former CIA operations officer and host of the podcast "The Wright Report," told Fox News Digital that electric vehicles pose environmental problems, national security issues and compromise the safety of drivers, making them a less than desirable alternative to gas-powered vehicles.

Wright said that one of the most important things to consider when buying an electric vehicle is whether it is actually green. It is his belief that they are actually quite "dirty." Starting with their batteries, he explained that thousands of pounds of minerals, including cobalt, lithium and nickel from all around the world have to first be extracted.

The Congo is the source of 70% of the world's cobalt. Of that, about a third come from miners who are "mostly kids," Wright said.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/evs-climate-agenda-national-security-threat-weaken-ultimately-destroy-expert-warns

Costly Climate Agendas Are Raising Bills While Doing Zilch For The Climate
by David Holt  4 hours ago 

One curious but predictable effect of making decisions that restrict access to affordable, reliable, and environmentally sound energy is that the more we squeeze supply in the name of climate action, the higher prices go and the faster less environmentally friendly options are brought back into service. [emphasis, links added]

The other outcome? Elected leaders propose costly programs to help people pay for their ever-climbing energy bills – caused by restrictive policies these same leaders supported.


That’s treating the symptoms, not curing the disease.

California, long seen as the leader in taking action for the climate, is patient zero when it comes to understanding this irrational phenomenon.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/costly-climate-agendas-are-raising-bills-while-doing-zilch-for-the-climate/

Climate Obsessed Democrats Demand an Oil Exploration Halt in the Middle of a Gasoline Price Crisis
14 hours ago Eric Worrall 89 Comments

Essay by Eric Worrall

Who needs Gasoline?

Big oil privately acknowledged efforts to downplay climate crisis, joint committee investigation finds

Internal documents revealed by committee show companies lobbied against climate laws they publicly claimed to support

Big oil has privately acknowledged its efforts to downplay the dangers of burning fossil fuels, US Democrats have found.

Major fossil-fuel firms have also pledged support for international climate efforts, but internally admit these efforts are incompatible with their own climate plans. And they have lobbied against climate laws and regulations they have publicly claimed to support, documents newly revealed by the committee show.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/02/climate-obsessed-democrats-demand-an-oil-exploration-halt-in-the-middle-of-a-gasoline-price-crisis/

Is our military now providing Russia war material for their war with Ukraine?

 
Mexican smugglers are increasingly using semitrailers to transport migrants
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Smugglers in Mexico are increasingly using overloaded semitrailers to transport people trying to enter the U.S., often with deadly consequences, an investigation from Noticias Telemundo found.

The big picture: The situation lays bare the human toll of modern migration amid the growing and increasingly dangerous human smuggling industry.
 
State of play: Noticias Telemundo, the Latin American journalism consortium CLIP and other local partners reconstructed the journeys and routes taken by 170 cargo trucks involved in either crashes or other incidents in Mexico in the past six years.

They found that almost 19,000 people — 3,000 of them minors — were transported in the trucks involved in incidents, and 111 died.

Trailers are often overcrowded and result in people dying from a lack of oxygen or being exposed to extreme temperatures.

Only 35 people have been convicted of smuggling and endangering people with the use of trailers — a rate of impunity that immigrant advocates say has fostered the problem.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/mexican-smugglers-are-increasingly-using-semitrailers-to-transport-migrants/ar-AA1o33RU?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=ada31b6bd5e1411595d991df800d19f6&ei=80