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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Here’s an article from the New York Times about EV’s. Has anyone heard of problems with Hybrids?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/electric-car-owners-confront-harsh-130352017.html
The only effect to a hybrid should be reduced all electric range, but it would be something like a Prius with 20 miles of electric range would only have 10 miles in cold weather. But the gas engine should run and power the car just like an all ICE car.
It was too cold for the Energizer Bunny to be out
Its pretty funny when basic Newtonian physics impacts with dunderheaded fluffy Democrat virtue signaling. Oddly the laws of physics win every time.
Call a battery powered tow truck.
I read that EV owners have dropped the charger handles in the snow and the charging contacts iced up, leaving the chargers inoperable. Plus a cold battery will not charge, so it sometimes needs to be plugged into the charger for an hour or more before the vehicle’s systems will accept a charge. However, at low temperatures the batteries will charge very slowly, not charge fully, then the batteries will lose charge quickly again in the cold weather.
Contrast that with a 5 minute stop to gas up an ICE vehicle, anywhere and anytime.
I’ll never own an EV. Mayor Pete can pound sand, or anything else he wants to pound.
Also consider this: engines in ICE vehicles warm up, thereby producing heat to warm the vehicle’s interior. EVs don’t “warm up” so if you want to be warm in the vehicle, that warmth has to be generated by the EV’s battery. The range for the vehicle is diminished so passengers don’t die of frostbite.
There are SO MANY reasons EVs are simply impractical for the Midwest winter. I suppose rich people could consider owning a winter vehicle AND a EV. How practical is that?!?