Green-Scam

I’m glad you’ve bought an electric vehicle. But your conscience isn’t clean

First, you’ve got to drive a long way before you overcome your EV’s embedded carbon debt. And then there’s the trouble with the minerals in its battery

So you’ve finally taken the plunge and bought an electric vehicle (EV)? Me too. You’re basking in the warm glow that comes from doing one’s bit to save the planet, right? And now you know that smug feeling when you are stuck in a motorway tailback behind a hideous diesel SUV that’s pumping out particulates and noxious gases, but you’re sitting there in peace and quiet and emitting none of the above. And when the traffic finally starts to move again you notice that the fast lane is clear and you want to get ahead of that dratted SUV. So you put your foot down and – whoosh! – you get that pressure in the small of your back that only owners of Porsche 911s used to get. Life’s good, n’est-ce pas?

I’m glad to see Ecosnot publications like the Guardian and CBC finally begining to reveal the truth about the Toxic-EV Scam.

But that won’t derail them from their goal of society’s total subjugation to their totalitarian ideology.

In the end they won’t allow you to drive anything.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Green-Scam

Thousands of Americans Try To Take Advantage of Biden’s Solar Subsidies. They Can’t Connect to a Power Grid.

Outdated power systems create years-long lines to plug in green energy projects

Shortly after President Joe Biden offered tax credits to anyone buying solar panels, a Colorado homeowner named Stacie took out loans to install $30,000 worth of panels on her roof. Nearly six months later, however, those panels sat unused, generating no power.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Canada has nothing to fear from U.S. protectionist rhetoric, envoy to Ottawa insists

… And he cited the specific example of Li-Cycle, a Toronto-based lithium battery recycling operation that’s building a new plant in Rochester, N.Y., with more than US$370 million worth of help from the U.S. Department of Energy, thanks to the IRA.

“They don’t feel like they’re being hurt by Buy American,” said Cohen, who said he met Li-Cycle executives at a recent conference in D.C.

“Buy American didn’t stop them from getting a $370-million grant from the United States government. And they’re not discouraged at all in applying for additional funding to support their lithium recycling business.”

But the fact they are building the plant in the U.S. and not in Canada speaks volumes, said Scotty Greenwood, CEO of the Canadian American Business Council.

“Competition makes us each better and our ultimate competitors and adversaries are in other places in the world — that’s true,” Greenwood said.

“But to say that there’s zero protectionism, and then to give an example of U.S. government money going to a Canadian firm to open a facility in the U.S., it’s precisely the point — the incentives work.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada, Green-Scam, USA

A heavy dose of reality for electric-truck mandates

… After one trucking company tried to electrify just 30 trucks at a terminal in Joliet, Illinois, local officials shut those plans down, saying they would draw more electricity than is needed to power the entire city.

A California company tried to electrify 12 forklifts. Not trucks, but forklifts. Local power utilities told them that’s not possible.

And it gets worse…

Via Lorrie Goldstein

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Green-Scam

Trudeau’s massive spending on Volkswagens and other things won’t spur economic growth

The Trudeau government recently announced it will spend an estimated $13 billion on subsidies for Volkswagen’s Ontario battery plant and offer $700 million to help with construction, in addition to another $500 million from the Ontario government. Federal Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne argues that the economic value from this corporate welfare — funded by taxpayer money — will be worth it. But Trudeau’s spending spree hasn’t spurred economic growth yet, so why should we expect it to now?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Terence Corcoran: A not-so-green reality behind green transition

In the rollicking world of net-zero policy-making and initiatives, Canada aims to be a global leader. The country’s bankers, mining executives, auto companies, electricity producers and political leaders have merged into a unified machine around the idea that a new green economy can be achieved via a just transition to a global energy system free of carbon emissions.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Taxpayers get soaked by Volkswagen giveaway

More than $4 million per job. That’s how much Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has committed taxpayers to spending in his sweetheart deal with a German auto giant.

In St. Thomas, Ont., flanked by Premier Doug Ford, Trudeau announced taxpayers are set to give Volkswagen up to $13 billion in exchange for a $7-billion electric car-battery plant.

The plant is costing taxpayers $13 billion and is set to employ 3,000 workers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

How Democrats’ Push For Electric Cars Endangers National Security

Ford Motor Company recently announced it’s set to lose more than $6 billion on its latest electric vehicle plants while it gets them running, with the company CEO saying “we cannot continue to import batteries and rare earth from overseas.”

“We can build all the plants, but what’s the good if we’re importing batteries?” he continued, highlighting U.S. mine closures and global shortages of the rare earths required for the batteries that power these cars.

Joe Biden declared war on fossil fuels on his first day in office. The federal government has adopted numerous policies to swiftly move our nation away from gas-powered vehicles to all-electric ones.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Behind Guilbeault’s ‘Social Cost of Carbon’ Speech

Lunatic

When the Parliamentary Budget Officer issued a report a few weeks ago saying the carbon tax is a “net loss” to most Canadian households, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said the report didn’t account for the costs of climate change itself, also tweeting that “the costs of inaction on climate change far outweigh the costs of taking action.”

On April 19, Guilbeault upped the ante on the issue of carbon emissions, saying that the government will use a “new tool” called the “social cost of carbon” to fight climate change and that the cost of Canada’s emissions could be five times higher than previously thought.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Care about climate change? Support nuclear power

Knee-jerk opposition to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s sensible position in support of nuclear power, as Canada decreases its use of fossil fuel energy, drives home a basic point about the more radical elements of the environmental movement.

While they profess to love the planet, they hate the people on it, believing it would be far better for life on earth if there were a few billion less of us around to pollute it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

NYC trip another in long list of Trudeau bad judgments

So while our Armed Forces in CFB Petawawa are showering in cold water, and Canadians who need to travel cannot get passports renewed because of 150,000 federal civil servants out on their second week of striking (asking for more in their guaranteed-for-life jobs than most Canadians will dream of ever earning), our prime minister is saddling up his private taxpayer-paid jet to spend a few hours at an exclusive reception hosted by film stars and rock legends in Manhattan.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Is Canada’s subsidy of Volkswagen EV battery plant ‘corporate welfare’ or a once-in-a-lifetime investment?

It’s fair to say that the outpouring of corporate subsidies by Canadian governments is without precedent in recent times. We should talk about that. Is it a wise use of public money?

The latest flashpoint for criticism of that largesse is the recently announced $7 billion electric vehicle (EV) battery plant, subsidized by governments, that Volkswagen AG plans to build in St. Thomas, Ont.Is Canada’s subsidy of Volkswagen EV battery plant ‘corporate welfare’ or a once-in-a-lifetime investment?

Volkswagen announces $20 billion effort to build its own EV batteries

… Starting in 2023, VW plans to roll out a new unified prismatic cell design of its batteries that will be installed across the automaker’s brands. The goal is to have this unified cell design powering up to 80 percent of VW’s electric vehicles by 2030. VW also has contracts with two other major battery producers, Samsung and CATL (Communist China Owned). And the company is backing a startup based in San Jose, California, QuantumScape, which is working on more energy-efficient solid-state batteries.

Free Money is always attractive but I bet  Canadian production never reaches Trudeau’s hyped up numbers and VW will hightail it to Mexico at the changeover to Solid State.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Jesse Kline: Trudeau demands climate sacrifice, while China burns coal with abandon

Last week, my son announced at the dinner table that his school had turned off the lights for a time to “celebrate” Earth Day. To my mind, it seemed more of a lesson in why we need electricity to power our modern civilization, yet the kids were apparently allowed to spend the time playing computer games, which makes the overall point of the exercise hard to decipher.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam, WTF?

Terence Corcoran: On the road again toward new bailouts with Volkswagen subsidy

The new dollar numbers are big, but it’s still the same old story, a fight for funds and automotive glory that, in the past, has produced few long-term substantial benefits that economists have been able to measure. Will the $13 billion that Canadian governments are now showering on Volkswagen to set up a battery plant in St. Thomas, Ont., produce a century of benefits as promised by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam