counting Korev wrote:
“[I am] Just smile at the stupidity and cognitive dissonance of renewable energy fanatics. …Electric vehicle purchases are down…Coal use is up”
Like countless things CoRev has written, this seemed wrong, so I found the DOE EIA data and downloaded the following:
figure 1: U.S. coal consumption (light blue), seasonally adjusted by the authors (dark blue), all in kilotonnes. NBER-defined recession peak-to-trough dates appear gray. source: Environmental Impact AssessmentNBER, and author’s calculations.
It seems to me that coal consumption is declining, unless people are short-sighted.
As for EV sales, it seems to me that they are on the rise:
source: Gearino, InsideClimate, October 26, 2023.
Now, CoRev may have access to a super-secret alternate series that tells a different story than the EIA series (or possibly a conspiracy at the hands of the Deep State stat). He may also have known that Cox’s car had been infiltrated by the aforementioned Deep State agents, so these numbers cannot be trusted. I’m afraid I don’t have time to investigate these possibilities.
I leave it to the reader to dissect CoRev’s other errors in the comments.My main point is – don’t take (1) personal assertions as given Don’t know how to do time series analysis (not to mention obviously reading the chart), and (2) those who move around Accusing others of manipulating data without understanding where it comes from.For a synopsis of CoRev-related cautionary tales that I provide to my policy analysis/statistics students, see here (Or if you just want to laugh and laugh and laugh).
