Thursday, September 4, 2014

BloggeRhythms

While most of the major news stories concern the incumbent's scrambling to find a way to stem the tide of reversals in the Middle-East, caused by his politically-motivated hasty withdrawal of U.S. troops, several other major mistakes are taking place here at home. Although they aren’t getting much attention in the heavily biased major media.
 
To begin, Charles Fleming writes in the Los Angeles Times that, “Electric car sales are not charging the marketplace. A new study by online automotive research company Edmunds.com suggests the segment may have run out of gas.”
 
Edmunds senior analyst Jessica Caldwell said sales of electric drive vehicles are stuck at about 3.6% of all new car sales for 2014, below the 3.7% market share for 2013, and not likely to grow any before the end of the year.

On the other hand, "The whole automobile market has grown. We’re not seeing electric vehicles as part of that growth."

Five years ago, analysts thought that electric vehicle sales would continue to expand as more manufacturers put more electric vehicles on the road and as the vehicles' cost came down. But, that hasn't happened. Electric vehicle sales have slowed while prices have come down and dealers have been offering increasingly better deals on financing and incentives.

"It isn't growing," Caldwell said. "It's stagnant and even slightly down."

The next wrong guess concerns the ongoing eruption of problems in the incumbent’s health care tax. A report was published in the journal of Health Affairs by actuaries from the federal Obamacare administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, saying that “the health-care law is contributing to a renewed boost in health care spending. 
 
CMS actuaries expect health spending to climb even higher, projecting 5.6 percent growth in 2014, 4.9 percent growth in 2015 and 6.1 percent every year afterward through 2023. One primary drivers of the skyrocketing health care spending: Obamacare.”

And then, Anthony Watts in WUWT on-line reports that although, “NOAA/NCDC doesn’t make it easy to track such things, I have spent a considerable amount of time manually downloading and saving the high/low records from each month of 2014 and compiling the data in a  spreadsheet.

The results so far through August of 2014 indicate that on balance, 2014 has been a cool year for the USA.

Summer of 2014 has also been cool, with record lows outpacing record highs at nearly 2-1.”

Now, over the course of history, many U.S. presidents have made mistakes in judgment, they’re only human after all. In fact, some of them, such as Jimmy Carter erred quite a lot. But, not one of them to my knowledge, has been continually wrong across the board to the extent of the one holding office now. Which is truly an incredible achievement, considering the masses of information and statistics available to a POTUS now.

That's it for today folks.

Adios     

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