Fun With Cars

What's that line? "Fun fun fun 'til her daddy takes the T-bird away" Not for the first time, these essays have told the tale of the Evangelical Reactionary Radical Right Wingnuts claiming that global warming/climate change/Mother Nature's having Her revenge is all a Hoax from the Woke Blue People? And that, the Private Sector, aka the home insurance companies, are the instrument not the Damn Gummint. Of course, not the Damn Gummint because the Evangelical Reactionary Radical Right Wingnuts control enough of it from DC down to the Shitburg Town Councils of the Red States to block any efforts to at least slow down the process. In no way is The Insurance Industrial Complex^™ going to wait. They're taking her daddy's house insurance away with vigor. The science is not complete to answer the vital question: have we run past the point of no return. The Musk Ox and his wimins may have to get a move on to Mars to re-populate another planet.

Well, here's yet another report on the inevitable. The Insurance Industrial Complex^™ doesn't believe in the Bible or the Torah or the Koran, just Greenbacks. And when the flow of Greenbacks starts to reverse course, it responds with a vengeance. As well it might.

The Treasury Department under President Biden laid the groundwork to gather data about climate change's effects on the insurance market, then backed off in the face of pressure from states and insurers, as my colleague Emily Flitter reported this year. But the incoming Trump administration could be pressured to intervene, especially since some of the highest premium increases are in states that he carried in November.

Ah, yes. And, most importantly, fiddle a way to put the financial onus on Blue States. We can never forget The Prime Directive.

Here is the map.

Ya don't get away with messing with the Insurance Industrial Complex^™'s rice bowl.