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CFACT's Duggan Flanakin Is Officially Our Favorite Zonked Out Source Of EV Disinfo [1]
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Date: 2023-06-29
Usually, monitoring disinformation is pretty much the opposite of fun. But now and again you get to come across someone really letting loose and taking advantage of the fact that there are zero editorial constraints at disinfo outlets, and that’s pretty entertaining to witness.
When it comes to electric vehicles (EVs), as we noted last year , for every serious attack you can prepare for, there's a Duggan Flanakin of CFACT with an op-ed that comes from out of left field with some impressively ridiculous claim.
As you may remember, back in May, we suggested "maybe Flanakin’s just enjoying his easy job at CFACT a little too much" because his writing was so, like, you know, out there, dude. After all, and please bear with us for a moment here because this is going somewhere, he even " mixed the metaphors of the Hookah-smoking caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland with Puff, the Magic Dragon."
Then on top of those fun if muddled drug references, he "claimed ' Europeans may be rejecting the EV kool-aid ','' and we noted “that metaphor was about a racist mass murder and not the LSD-laced electric kool-aid that we suspected Flanakin may have over-indulged in" a few months before . That's because in a prior February post, Flanakin combined AI concerns with EV fearmongering and a forced "Age of Aquarius" metaphor, and it seemed as though perhaps "it'd been written [by AI] in the style of an author who ate so much acid in the 70s that he's still tripping."
And now, as though he read that criticism and decided to lean into it with a brain-melting batch of Kool-Aid-flavored EV disinfo, Flanakin's latest RealClearEnergy op-ed is headlined " The EV Kool-Aid Acid Test ." Once again, he digs into the groovy vibes of the '60s to try and make yet another repetition of anti-EV disinfo seem new and fresh and interesting.
According to Flanakin, the fact that the CEO of General Motors said , "Once you've experienced an EV … you're in" is similar to how "In his 1968 book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, author Tom Wolfe portrayed Ken Kesey as a man seeing [sic] to create a new religion… a new society based on psychedelic transcendence."
Flanakin follows that logical leap from an oh-so-timely reference serving as his introductory news peg with fifteen paragraphs of standard anti-EV disinformation, before apparently remembering what the headline of the ramble, and tacking on "Kool-Aid, anyone?" to the end.
…Yes? Or whatever it is you're having, Duggan, we'll take a double!
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