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Charlotte works at IWF as a policy analyst focusing on energy and climate policy.

Her work has been published in a variety of outlets including The Hill, the Washington Examiner, and the Daily Caller. Charlotte is also a member of the Emerging Leaders Council at the Steamboat Institute.

Charlotte graduated from Princeton University and lives in Jacksonville, Florida with her husband and daughter.

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INNOVATION

Turning To Foreign Leaders To Fix Our Energy Crisis Is A Shameful Solution

Charlotte Whelan | Op-eds

INNOVATION

President Biden Wants You To Listen To The Science, Just Not When It Comes To Electric Vehicles

Charlotte Whelan | Op-eds

WORK

Nasdaq Gets The Green Light To Require Board Diversity

Charlotte Whelan | Blog

INNOVATION

Startup Makes Inexpensive Battery For Renewable Energy Storage

Charlotte Whelan | Blog

INNOVATION

New Energy Credits Encourage Innovation

Charlotte Whelan | Blog

INNOVATION

Keystone XL Pipeline Cancellation Is An Environmental Disaster

Charlotte Whelan | Op-eds

INNOVATION

California May Face Round Two Of Energy Shortages This Summer

Charlotte Whelan | Op-eds

NATIONAL SECURITY

Fighting For Freedom

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olicy analyst Charlotte Whelan joined The Steamboat Institute to host Jorge Galicia, Venezuelan freedom fighter, for an episode of Liberty Chats.

Before socialism devastated his country, Jorge lived a life not unlike that of middle-class Americans. He is now one of 4 million Venezuelans who have fled their country following its economic, social and political collapse. Since then, he has been speaking out about the very real damages caused by socialism and has made it his life’s mission to win the fight.

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Join our chat with Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) policy analyst Charlotte Whelan, a member of our Emerging Leaders Council. Our Ericka Andersen spoke with Charlotte about the conservative shift toward innovative climate change and energy policy, which she’s written about extensively for IWF and other outlets recently:

We also talk about why it’s important to uplift women of all political persuasions, as IWF does so well. While so many women’s groups are exclusive to the Left, IWF is one of few that welcome women of all political stripes and encourages meaningful conversations about tough issues.

We’re thankful for young leaders like Charlotte helping shape meaningful, conservative and independent policies for the future of the country. Here’s that conversation:

Brandon Borke

Brandon serves as the Director of Strategic Partnerships for Young Americans for Liberty. He is a native of northeast Michigan. Read More

Jameson C. Broggi

Jameson C. Broggi is Steamboat Institute’s 2021-22 Courage in Education Award winner. He worked tirelessly to get South Carolina to… Read More

Solomon Chen

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Domine Clemons

Domine Clemons is a passionate advocate for free-market economics, school choice, and limited government. She grew up in a large… Read More

Christina Eastman

Christina Eastman is an analyst at American Philanthropic, a member of the Steamboat Institute’s Emerging Leaders Advisory Council, part of… Read More

Lauren Golem

Lauren Golem is a law student at University Colorado Law School (Class of 2020) concentrating in criminal law. She graduated… Read More

Amelia Hetfield

Amelia Hetfield has always been an active participant in the political process. As a young girl, she participated in campaign… Read More

Karl Honegger

Karl Honegger is a Certified Treasury Professional and works in accounting for an Oil and Gas company in Denver. He… Read More

Jacob Jordan

Jacob Jordan works in technology and is a member of the Steamboat Institute’s Emerging Leaders Advisory Council. He also attends… Read More

Juliet Lucas

Juliet is an aspiring filmmaker, with plans to enter the narrative filmmaking business and help accurately… Read More

Carter Mateer

Carter Mateer is an analyst at Deloitte, a member of the Steamboat Institute’s Emerging Leaders Advisory Council, and a part… Read More

Lindsey Martin

Lindsey Martin is a Project Manager with the Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma. She is from Claremore, OK and graduated… Read More

Matt Melchior

Matt Melchior is a premium sales executive for the Denver Broncos, a member of the Steamboat Institute’s Emerging Leaders Advisory… Read More

Zachary Rogers

Zach Rogers was born in Wheatridge and raised in Elizabeth, Colorado. Homeschooled through high school, he participated in an options… Read More

Joe Sanderson

Joe Sanderson is the Office Manager for the U.S. Office of Public Policy at a multinational financial services firm in… Read More

Braeden Sorbo

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Marko Sukovic

Marko Sukovic, 25, is a cofounder of SurusDH, LLC., an Illinois-based startup providing innovative voter engagement, automated communications, and fundraising… Read More

Haley Supergan

Haley Supergan a Development Associate at The Steamboat Institute, a member of The Steamboat Institute’s Emerging Leaders Council, and part… Read More

Charlotte Whelan

Charlotte graduated from Princeton University with a degree in French and a certificate in Global Health. At Princeton, she was… Read More

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last week, President Biden _{signed an Executive Order}_ encouraging U.S. leadership in the clean car sector with a goal of half of all new car sales in the U.S. being zero-emission by 2030. It took them a few days, but deniers seem to have assembled their response by cobbling together a mix of old lies, new misrepresentations, and bizarre logical fallacies.

For example, a response that in any sane outlet might be praise for Biden’s plan was published in the Koch-funded RealClearEnergy as an attack: _{President Biden’s Electric Car Future is Union Made}_. Bruce Yandle, a fellow at the Koch-funded Mercatus Center at George Mason University, is upset that Biden invited three major U.S. car companies to attend the announcement because they were the largest employers of workers in the United Auto Workers union, and didn’t invite non-American companies with non-union workers to his event promoting good American jobs.}:

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Obviously, it’s no surprise that a Koch crony is anti-union and anti-EV, unless you confuse organized labor with organized denial.

Speaking of organized denial, while the _{once-Koch-funded}_ Daily Caller has since _{basically given up}_ on regular climate denial reporting, and its IPCC story was _{a straightforward rip-off}_ of the _{AP’s “code red” coverage}_ (sans any Koch-network denial quote, because no-pay, no-play, we assume). The Caller still occasionally publishes guest opinion pieces and _{ran one from Charlotte Whelan}_ of the (_{pro-Covid}_) Independent Women’s Forum andSteamboat Institute (which is hosting _{Marc Morano and a slate of other rightwing pseudostars at an upcoming festival}_).

Whelan is also upset the White House invited union workers to its pro-union-jobs event, and adds (with a deliberately misleading citation) the claim that “it could take more than 15 years to recoup the upfront extra costs in fuel savings. The average American certainly can’t wait that long to ‘make back’ the additional upfront cost” But the work cited (_{an NRDC post}_ based on _{a peer-reviewed study}_) doesn’t even measure how long it would take to recoup the upfront cost of an EV with cheaper charging and a more efficient propulsion system. The study did, however, use 15 years as the unit of measurement for a car’s life. So the calculations show that over an average 15-year lifespan of ownership, it can be almost $15,000 cheaper to go with an electric car.

Over at theKoch-funded Heritage foundation’s media arm, their policy analyst _{Katie Tubb makes a similar claim}_ about EVs being for rich people, which we’ve addressed before as part of _{their propaganda campaigns}_, as well as the _{old racist dog whistle about China}_.

Finally, we get to a new name to us, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, who wrote that Biden’s move was “costly and counterproductive” in the _{industry-funded}_ Manhattan Institute’s City Journal.

After a column _{defending the auto industry from 5G in January}_, and another in March with the phrase “nothing beats personal vehicles for social distancing.” Furchtgott-Roth makes similar points to the other professional disinformers in her most recent City Journal piece, but she also _{a:{dds a particularly baffling claim:(style="background-color:#ffff33;"):}:}_ that because “the United States has achieved energy security by becoming a net exporter of oil and natural gas,” then “mandating sales of electric vehicles would weaken that security.”

But if exporting oil makes us stronger (by her logic) then wouldn’t having more of it to export because our own cars are using less of it be a good thing, that would make us stronger?

Why would someone write something so inane and illogical, despite a byline that includes “former deputy assistant secretary for research and technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation” and “adjunct professor of economics at George Washington University?” Those are both legitimate organizations, not industry-funded disinformation operations!

Well it turns out that the DOT appointment was made by notoriously-bad-hiring-manager Donald Trump, and prior to that, _{Furchtgott-Roth was an economist for the American Petroleum Institute}_, _{proving once again}_ that _{when someone says something stupid about EVs}_, it’s _{probably on purpose}_.

(Originally appeared at DailyKos.)

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https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/10/whelan-president-biden-wants-you-to-listen-to-the-science-just-not-when-it-comes-to-electric-vehicles/

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OPINION

WHELAN: President Biden Wants You To Listen To The Science, Just Not When It Comes To Electric Vehicles

CHARLOTTE WHELAN

INDEPENDENT WOMEN'S FORUM

August 10, 2021

Americans may rejectradical climate policies like the Green New Deal, but President Biden continues to use his office to advance that vision and toappease powerful allies like the unions. Most recently, he signed yet another executive order, this time targeting vehicle emissions and supporting the increased production of electric, hydrogen-fuel cell and plug-in hybrid vehicles. The new order sets the ambitious goal of these vehicles making up half of U.S. sales in 2030.

The order doesn’t mention unions, instead generically promising, “This will allow us to boost jobs — with good pay and benefits — across the United States” but a pro-union message was made clear by who the president invited to the signing.Elon Musk, the founder of the most American-made electric vehicle (EV) company, was not invited to the White House event. According to some sly implications by the White House press secretary, Musk was snubbed because Tesla’s workforce is not union-represented,unlike those of General Motors Co, Ford Motor Co, and Stellantis, the three companies represented at the event and the three largest employers of the United Auto Workers Union.

With characteristic broad claims that ignore real-life financial issues, the White House announced that this order “kicks off development of long-term fuel efficiency and emissions standards to save consumers money, cut pollution, boost public health, advance environmental justice, and tackle the climate crisis.” But the real story is the increased upfront cost per vehicle that will be forced upon American consumers and the proposals’ dubious environmental benefits.

Instead of saving Americans money, the average electric vehicle costs about $20,000 more than the average gas-powered vehicle. While EV proponents argue that electric vehicles save money down the road in reduced fuel and maintenance costs, some studies have shown that, depending on your regional gas and electricity prices, it could take more than 15 years to recoup the upfront extra costs in fuel savings. The average American certainly can’t wait that long to “make back” the additional upfront cost, especially as they’ll already be paying through the nose in taxes to support the charging stations that the government has promised to provide.

And what the White House doesn’t tell you is that electric vehicles aren’t as “zero-emissions” as they would like you to believe. Electric cars still need to be charged from the local electricity grid — which may be using any variety of energy sources with varying amounts of carbon emissions. For example, if an electric vehicle is charging on a coal-based power grid, then it is increasing the demand for electricity in that grid, leading to increased emissions from the coal power plant. And the batteries for these vehicles require minerals like lithium and cobalt which are largely found outside of the U.S., in places such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chile, which have little consideration for their own environmental impact, not to mention the human rights abuses associated with the mining of these minerals.

After all this, however, the real question remains: is this all worth it?

According to a 2018 Manhattan Institute report, the answer is no. The report found that if there was widespread adoption of electric vehicles “the overall reduction [in CO2 emissions] would be less than 1% of total forecast energy-related U.S. CO2 emissions through 2050.” Traditional gas-powered vehicles have become more efficient over the years and produce less emissions, thus lessening the impact of any widespread shift to electric vehicles.

We should work to reduce our nation’s emissions, but forcing unaffordable vehicles with negligible effects on emissions on Americans is not the way to do it. As outlined in this new report, the better approach to reasonably and meaningfully reduce emissions is to encourage innovation in the energy sector and deploy technology we already have, such as carbon capture and advanced nuclear generation. We can also maintain our existing nuclear reactors instead of shutting them down, a trend that is counterproductive to reducing emissions.

Innovation, not government subsidies, is the path forward.

In this era of COVID-19, we’ve often heard the phrase, “listen to the science.” President Biden and his administration should do just that and stop forcing expensive and ineffective ways to reduce carbon emissions on the American people. The U.S. has a long history of rising to the challenge and finding innovative solutions to our problems. We have already made great progress in developing clean energy solutions and will continue to find new ways to reduce emissions without forcing Americans to rely on technologies that have shown to have little environmental upside and come at great cost to the American people.

Charlotte Whelan is a policy analyst at Independent Women’s Forum and a member of the Steamboat Institute’s Emerging Leaders Council.