Choosing a Better Way
What to know: School choice continues to gain support in Texas and the nation.
The TPPF take: School choice benefits everyone—even teachers.
“Teachers should be clamoring for parental choice too,” says TPPF’s Austin Prochko. “They’ve been fed the party line by their administrators and union reps that parental choice will cost them their jobs—the reality is quite the opposite. If more teachers knew the benefits that parental choice would bring to them, they’d join in with the millions of parents across the state demanding choice.”
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Unused Cars
What to know: Unsold electric vehicles are piling up in dealer lots.
The TPPF take: Electric vehicles aren’t the answer to climate worries.
“The wealthy are not bearing the brunt of the war on fossil fuels; child laborers in Africa and working American families are, and the weight will be crushing,” says TPPF’s Jamila Piracci. “And the current administration is not just assisting EV buyers; they are propping up the entire EV market by paying buyers to create demand so that suppliers will have the profitability necessary to make the product. There isn’t a natural widespread demand for EVs, so policymakers are using the popularized ESG narrative to ban the alternatives (fossil fuels).”
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Don’t Follow This Leader
What to know: The Guardian claims that China is now “the world leader in renewable power and potentially outpacing its own ambitious energy targets.”
The TPPF take: China’s green energy efforts are for show.
“China knows that American elites fear climate change, claiming it is an existential threat,” says TPPF’s Chuck DeVore. “As a result, China touts its massive effort to build wind turbines, deploy solar panels, and rapidly expand electric vehicle production, with almost half of the world’s EVs operating in China. But what if China’s green energy push has nothing to do with the environment?”
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