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General Patton was angered and revolted by what he saw at the Nazi concentration camp.
Here s What You Need to Remember: American officers tried to determine the exact number of persons who died during Buchenwald’s nearly eight years of operation, but it was no easy task.
The blue arrows on Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.’s Third Army situation maps in his mobile headquarters trailer all pointed eastward. From the vicinity of Frankfurt-am-Main, Patton’s three corps Troy Middleton’s VIII, Manton Eddy’s XII, and Maj. Gen. Walton H. Walker’s XX were plunging side by side over hills, across rivers, streams, and fields, through woods, and into towns and villages, through barricades, road blocks, and minefields, destroying all efforts by the Germans to slow the advance. This was all before the true horrors of the Nazi regime were known to Allied forces. Patton’s army had yet to learn of the atrocities that were taking place at Ohrdruf and the Buchenwald Concentration Ca
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They had to destroy the environment in order to save it.
“Destroy” might be too strong a word, but if Insanity Wrap can see the perverse incentives the EPA is about to create while the EPA doesn’t, then we’re in big trouble.
We’re in big trouble regardless, aren’t we?
Anyway:
While [new EPA Administrator Michael] Regan did not mention any specific numbers, he did not rule out emissions limits that would force the phasing out of fossil-fuel vehicles. To achieve that, the number would probably be in the range of 60-70 miles per gallon combined, according to EPA methodology, which is what appears on new cars’ Monroney stickers. Today’s gas-powered cars struggle to crack 40 mpg combined, and hybrids have trouble getting more than 60 mpg combined. The least-efficient electric vehicle, on the other hand, the Porsche Taycan, gets the equivalent of 69 mpg.