The Elon Mordita

Guest Post by Eric Peters

Extortion is illegal provided you call it that. If you call it something else – “emissions credits,” for instance – then it’s ok.

Tesla just extorted several hundred million dollars from FiatChrysler (FCA) via this legal means of extortion. FCA is forced to pay Elon for not building enough electric cars which people don’t want to buy – but which don’t produce that deadly inert gas, carbon dioxide. While the cars FCA sells – without subsidies – do.

These CO2 “emissions” – which every living soul on this Earth also “emits” with every respiration – have been hystericized into a Planetary Threat for political reasons. An inert gas – but one essential to life on this Earth – has been rebranded into an “emission,” a term which once meant harmful byproducts – things which had to be cleaned up for the sake of public health.

But carbon dioxide isn’t “dirty.”

It causes no smog, does not settle on the surfaces of things and turn them brown. It makes breathing easier  because it is vital to the respiration of plants, which produce the oxygen we require for our continued respiration.

It is, however, a handy bogeyman because it’s one that can’t be dissipated. Not without turning off almost everything that is powered by an engine – in favor of things which are powered by motors.

Even then, “emissions” of C02 would continue to be “emitted” – by us (via our mouths) and by by other natural things, such as volcanoes, which “emit” in one eruption more C02 than all the C02 “emitted” by FCA’s entire lineup of vehicles ever “emitted.”

The volume of C02 “emitted” by our machines is akin to coughing in the Superdome relative to the volume of C02 “emitted” by natural machinery; the atmospheric concentration of C02 today is hundreds of parts per million less than it was at the height of life’s greatest abundance on this Earth, which was many millions of years ago and so long before the first Model T came off the line.

How much has the “climate” actually “changed”? There has been a measured rise in average temperatures of around 1 degree over the past 100 years – and lately (since 1998) going back in the other direction. This “change” being well within the nimbus of the “climate’s” natural – factual, observed/historic – tendency to modulate over time, whether man is rubbing sticks together to make fire or driving Model Ts or not even in the picture yet.

See ice cores. See air bubble samples within, dating from long ago.

Or see Dr. John Bates’ public whisteblowing about “the blatant attempt to intensify the impact” of  supposed “global warming” – which had to become “climate change” precisely because the climate has been cooling once again.

Bates is no “science guy,” like Bill Nye – who has a mechanical engineering degree and asserts – based on his understanding of gears and such, one assumes – that the “climate” is “changing.”

Bates is a climate scientist, who worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Asheville, NC. He told the Daily Mail and anyone else who would listen that his objections to the political science being peddled by NOAA were ignored deliberately so that the direst predictions of imminent planetary catastrophe could be “maximized” in advance of the UN Climate Change Summit in Paris.

Anyone could look these and other relevant facts up, but few do.

There is something pathological about end-stage Western Civilization, which seems bent on a suicidal course because its population has been dumbed down into a state of gadget-addled stupefaction and virtue-signaling, the virtues being signaled telegraphed into brains which have been conditioned to regard conformity as the highest of all virtues.

It is become a religion – which of course is a matter of faith, not fact. One must believe. Preferably, ardently.

Also profitably.

Enter Elon.

He extorts “credits” from FCA – and others – who use these “credits” to tamp down the total volume of carbon dioxide “emissions” produced  by the vehicles they sell and thus achieve what is styled “regulatory compliance” with the C02 fatwas.

The money thus mulcted goes not just from FCA’s account into Elon’s, but also from the pockets of people buying FCA vehicles – which become progressively more expensive to buy in order to offset the cost of the Elon Mordita.

Tesla also gets subsidized once again – and can pretend to be a going concern as opposed to the parasitical entity it actually is.

Think of a tick growing fat on just that spot on your dog’s back he can’t quiet reach – and which has become a fatwa’d Safe Space the vet isn’t allowed to touch.

Worst of all, though, is the doggy reverence for the tick displayed by FCA:

The company is “committed to reducing the emissions of all our products,” a statement reads. “The purchase pool provides flexibility to deliver products our customers are willing to buy while managing compliance with the lowest cost approach.”

Everyone wants to be polite. No one wants to raise a stink. But a point comes when it is no longer tolerable to placate the bully. He must be stood up to.

Not Elon – he is just an opportunistic parasite and one can’t blame a tick for seeking a warm host, full of even warmer blood to suck. It is what ticks do.

But Uncle – and every accomplice peddling the lies about carbon dioxide “emissions” had better be stood up to and not just by FCA.

AOC is just around the corner – or someone like her and just as bad.

The emperor has no clothes. Who will be the first to say so?

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Chubby Bubbles
Chubby Bubbles

CO2 is not inert.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

It’s not dangerous either.

Oldtimer505
Oldtimer505

It is also in equilibrium on this rock. I suggest there are greater forces at work here other than the human race.

Chubby Bubbles
Chubby Bubbles

No, CO2 is not in equilibrium on this rock.

Another un-factual assertion, generally, is that of “equilibrium”. Nothing is “in equilibrium”, ever, for our intents and purposes. If CO2 were in equilibrium, we would all be dead and all matter would be resting at absolute zero.

Be glad you’re not in equilibrium.

“173,000 terawatts (trillions of watts) of solar energy strikes the Earth continuously. ”
https://phys.org/news/2011-10-vast-amounts-solar-energy-earth.html

That makes a buncha shit happen, some of it good for humans, some of it not-so-good.


There are indeed greater biophysical forces at work: those that seek to break down energy gradients. Biological life is just a fruiting body on the way into the cool.

Chubby Bubbles
Chubby Bubbles

Well, sorry.. it is somewhat dangerous in that it is contributing to the greenhouse effect (a real thing).

Furthermore, increased atmospheric CO2 is contributing to the acidification of the oceans, which does things like make shellfish shells dissolve. If you put CO2 in water to make seltzer, it creates carbonic acid, raising the pH and making the drink acidic.

That doesn’t mean I think there should be a carbon tax, nor do I support Elon Musk or anything he does.. he’s clearly a charlatan.

I just hate when people make unfactual assertions.

James the Wanderer

Breathing enough CO2 will make YOU inert!
The “inert gases” aren’t either – XeF4 anyone? But the general idea is this – CO2 has a CYCLE, going around and around with O2 and H2O in the atmosphere, oceans and even topsoil, along with various forms of life. You can minorly affect the cycle, but overall the various cycles make life possible – and are largely SELF-REGULATING. If too much CO2 is in the atmosphere, plant life will increase and turn the additional CO2 into sugars / carbohydrates / cellulose – removing it from the atmosphere for a while. If excess O2 were to somehow appear (volcanoes generally emit little free oxygen) then one might expect fires, metallic oxidation increase or even more animal life (eventually) to restore the balance. Excess water (beyond saturation?) will simply condense and fall as rain.
A lot of environmental alarmism centers around disrupting one or more of the cycles to the point that they cannot recover and restore stability. That this hasn’t happened since the dawn of life (we’re all still here) doesn’t seem to matter when emotions override science. Fortunately for us, life doesn’t depend on the emotions of the living – or their understanding of basic science.
It’s only recently that certain life forms have struck upon the idea of cheating other life forms of their hard-earned money for relief from imaginary climate catastrophes. THAT is the real AGW – the heating up of the emotions over nothing by activists innocent of science. It’s a shame they cannot learn from the past, but the future will not be stopped by their ignorance.

Chubby Bubbles
Chubby Bubbles

“excess water”.. water vapor is the predominant “greenhouse gas”.
“Simply” condensing and falling as rain brings floods like in the midwest. More water vapor means more heat, which means more water vapor. This is just one of many unfortunate feedback loops our abrupt access to ancient fuels has triggered.

There certainly is a certain element of “self-regulation”: civilizations which overshoot their resource base will collapse; animals which evolve in a way that is ultimately self-defeating will become extinct, victims of their own “success”.

Iwasntbornwithenufmiddlefingers
Iwasntbornwithenufmiddlefingers

Neato factoid: the highest concentrations of co2 worldwide are over the rainforests. They not only use, but make huge amounts of the stuff. Its not uniformly distributed in the atmosphere at all times.

Morongobill
Morongobill

An inconvenient truth if I ever heard one.

Chubby Bubbles
Chubby Bubbles

Actions have consequences. When a termite colony builds a termite mound, they don’t moan and wring their hands about the displaced ants, weevils, or spiders, to be sure.. they just get on with their termite-mound-building and damn the torpedoes.

Anyone who thinks humans are somehow better than, or largely different from, termites is the one who is going to be disappointed in the final outcome.

Chubby Bubbles
Chubby Bubbles

Dying forests (as opposed to healthy forests) are indeed a source of CO2 and of methane. Trees around the world are dying.

Look anywhere you are familiar with. Do the trees seem to be in good shape? Why are trees now seen as dangerous? Why is the bark coming off of so many middle-aged trees, and why are they covered in lichen? Do you see trees around you that you would be willing to climb? Why are there so few old healthy trees? Why are most large trees being cut down because of internal rot?

https://witsendnj.blogspot.com/p/basic-premise.html

In grade school, in the Northeast, we’d collect gorgeous colored fall leaves for art projects. Now classes use colored paper leaves, because the real leaves are so scabrous-looking no-one would use them to beautify anything.

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