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How About Be Nice?

What to Know: They’re starting—the holiday articles about how to talk politics with relatives at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

The TPPF Take: We all have much to be thankful for—let’s focus on that.

“Remember, our hope is not in political power for the right party, or in federal programs, or even in the future promised by presidential candidates,” says TPPF’s Kevin Roberts. “Hope is something higher, and gratitude is something richer by far. In this season of thankfulness, let’s look up. Let’s raise our eyes from our screens and let’s look into the faces of our families and friends—and be thankful for them.”

This is Getting Expensive

What to Know: The deal that Georgetown (Texas) made for “green energy” has already cost its residents millions of dollars, is becoming even more costly, now that its solar provider is counter-suing it.

The TPPF Take: Georgetown’s decision to go “100% renewable” was a real turkey.

“Georgetown was supposed to be the new poster child of the green movement,” says TPPF’s Chuck DeVore.“Instead, electricity prices skyrocketed as more wind and solar power displaced cheaper natural gas in the power portfolio of the Georgetown’s municipal utility. That’s how the bloom came off Georgetown’s renewable rose.”

Turning the Seas Red

What to Know: Demand for minerals needed for “environmentally friendly” electric cars is wrecking the environment, including “turning the seas red” in Indonesia.

The TPPF Take: Facts are facts, and many measures demanded by environmentalists don’t make sense for the environment—or for humans.

“The modern climate movement has proved itself not only dishonest, but also increasingly ineffective where it supposedly matters—the environment,” says TPPF’s Mandy Gunasekara. “We know what works; in the United States, there are a range of technologies, as well as efficiency improvements that are making every form of energy extraction, refinement, transport, and end use more environmentally friendly. These work.”