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Electric cars are creating a new economy — and leaving some towns behind

Workers and small businesses in Belvidere, Ill., are dealing with the aftermath of mass layoffs, after Stellantis idled its Jeep factory

BELVIDERE, Ill. — Early last year, workers at a Jeep factory here hoped their plant would be converted to an electric vehicle facility as the auto industry revamps for a green-energy future. Engineers came to take measurements for a possible retooling, and rumors spread that electric sports cars were on the agenda.

But those hopes crumbled last month when the corporate parent company, Stellantis, ended production at the 58-year-old plant and laid off roughly 1,200 workers, ripping the heart out of this small town 70 miles northwest of Chicago.

This seems more about stripping America of its manufacturing capability. EV’s are not anyone’s savior.

by Blazingcatfur•March 23, 2023March 22, 2023•0•Green-Scam

The U.N.’s ‘Final Warning’ about Climate Change Won’t Be the Last

Its new report is just the latest in a long line of doomsaying missives on the subject. Their predictions have a funny habit of failing to come true.

The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an assessment report eight years in the making on Monday, and one climate scientist billed it as the “final warning” that catastrophic climate change is imminent.

by Blazingcatfur•March 23, 2023March 22, 2023•0•Green-Scam, UN

Dem-led Colorado city BANS new gas stations in bid to tackle climate change: Now limited to six in town of 21,000 people

The blue-run city of Louisville, Colorado will ban all new gas stations as local lawmakers say they feel an ‘obligation’ to fight climate change.

City councilors in the town of 21,000 approved a proposal Tuesday evening to cap the number of gas stations for their constituents to just six.

A seventh station would only be permitted if a large retailer swoops in, but the limitation was praised by a Louisville legislator who said the move was necessary to combat global warming.

by Blazingcatfur•March 22, 2023March 22, 2023•0•Green-Scam, WTF?

John Robson: Trudeau’s a climate hypocrite, but doesn’t realize it

Here’s something awkward. Canada’s climate alarmist-in-chief not only has what is likely the largest carbon footprint in the country, he doesn’t care. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes dozens of private jet trips a month, often short hops to avoid traffic, while 24 Sussex pumps out CO2 as if Al Gore lived there. Doesn’t he know there’s a global warming crisis?

by Blazingcatfur•March 22, 2023March 22, 2023•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

The Dutch farmers’ party victory is a warning to the green movement

People across Europe are fed up with unfair environmental policies

Last week, Dutch voters went to polls to elect their provincial councils and the country’s Senate. The full results are now in — and show that the populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) has won an even bigger victory than expected.

With over 19% of the vote, the BBB finished clearly out in front in a very crowded field. What makes this triumph all the more remarkable is that the party didn’t even exist four years ago. It has come out of nowhere to redefine the political landscape.

by Blazingcatfur•March 21, 2023March 21, 2023•0•"The Great Reset", Green-Scam

It doesn’t take much to junk an electric car

Insurers are being forced to write off many electric vehicles with only minor damage to battery packs, sending the batteries to scrap yards and hindering the climate benefits of going electric, Reuters reported.

And … 2 Reasons Why Electric Cars Burn Through Tires Faster Than Gas-Powered Vehicles

by Blazingcatfur•March 21, 2023March 21, 2023•0•Green-Scam

The green elites are living in dreamland

Their ‘green industrial revolution’ is simply never going to happen.

Towards the end of last summer, Britain’s energy debate came to be dominated by a new myth – that electricity generated by wind turbines was nine times cheaper than that created by gas-fired power stations. The claim was central to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s New Year’s speech, and he reiterated it at a reception for business leaders on 30 January. Yet now we don’t hear it anymore. Why?

by Blazingcatfur•March 16, 2023March 16, 2023•0•Green-Scam

Farmer’s protest party win shock Dutch vote victory

A farmers’ party has stunned Dutch politics, and is set to be the biggest party in the upper house of parliament after provincial elections.

The Farmer-citizen movement (BBB) was only set up in 2019 in the wake of widespread farmers’ protests.

But with most votes counted they are due to win 15 seats of the Senate’s seats with almost 20% of the vote.

“This isn’t normal, but actually it is! It’s all normal citizens who voted,” said leader Caroline van der Plas.

by Blazingcatfur•March 16, 2023March 16, 2023•0•"The Great Reset", Green-Scam, Netherlands

The scale of Ottawa’s battery-plant subsidies hidden until the money is gone

Volkswagen has just chosen to build an electric vehicle battery plant in St. Thomas, Ont., because the federal government offered them large subsidies. How much money? Ottawa isn’t saying.

That is a big deal because we are no longer talking about a billion here or there. The Financial Times reported last week that Volkswagen was putting plans for a European battery plant on hold because it could get €10-billion in subsidies – $15-billion – to build a plant in North America.

Did the federal gov't have to cut @VWcanada a cheque to secure an EV battery manufacturing plant in St. Thomas, Ont.? And if so, how much?

Watch Innovation Minister @FP_Champagne 's interview with @VassyKapelos👇

More at https://t.co/kJpnydmc7W #ctvpp #cdnpoli #onpoli https://t.co/FGY2Epm9bZ pic.twitter.com/ucX13gfpmu

— CTV Power Play (@CTV_PowerPlay) March 13, 2023

For a technology that even the car companies are stepping back from.

by Blazingcatfur•March 15, 2023March 15, 2023•0•Green-Scam

The New Enclosure: Rise of the Jail-Cell City

Cities are becoming more prominent as key partners in policy formulation and implementation.

We see this in the EU. The “Technical Support Initiative” financial assistance managed by the EU’s Directorate-General for Reform (DG REFORM) is set to service multi-country projects in which there is a need for city involvement. The European Semester, the EU’s monitor for economic and social policies, has also increased its focus on cities, with its most recent iteration including more data on local government. We find the same emphasis on cities in the EU’s criteria for accession countries in the Balkans, which is requiring reforms of public administration meant to empower the local level.

by Blazingcatfur•March 15, 2023March 14, 2023•0•"The Great Reset", Green-Scam

E-bike Batteries Are Burning Down New York City

I watch the local New York City news while I have my coffee, and nearly every morning, besides the stories of who was beaten senseless on the subway and which bodega worker was murdered, there’s a report of a building that burned down thanks to a malfunctioning e-bike battery. It’s gotten to the point where one wonders why these things are even legal.

by Blazingcatfur•March 15, 2023March 14, 2023•0•Green-Scam

Why the Dutch farmers’ revolt matters

They are fighting back against the green elite’s campaign of immiseration.

‘Farming is a profession of hope’, said Canadian poet and writer Brian Brett. So when farmers use their tractors in anger, it shows just how desperate things have become. That appears to be the case in the Netherlands, where thousands of Dutch farmers and their supporters descended on the nation’s political capital, the Hague, last Saturday.

by Blazingcatfur•March 14, 2023March 14, 2023•0•"The Great Reset", Green-Scam

Greta Thunberg’s 2018 Prediction That World Would End In Five Years Doesn’t Turn Out So Well

Being the international spokesperson for a fake crisis can be tough, as the child actor who acts as the mouthpiece for the climate change industry has just been reminded. On Saturday, Human Events senior editor Jack Posobiec tweeted at pint-sized climate scold Greta Thunberg, “Hi @GretaThunberg! Why did you delete this?”

by Blazingcatfur•March 13, 2023March 12, 2023•0•Green-Scam

State-commissioned studies in Germany skewed by green agenda

“Follow the science” and “evidence-based decision making” have for some time been the preferred catchphrases of good governance, an approach that is supposedly based on hard facts rather than ideology or political expediency. The Covid pandemic has shown that this rarely turns out to be true, which can be seen elsewhere too.

by Blazingcatfur•March 13, 2023March 12, 2023•0•Green-Scam

Environmentalists Lied, Californians Died

When the weather doesn’t follow political guidelines, people die.

There isn’t a blue state and city (along with many red ones) that doesn’t have a “climate mitigation plan” or something similar in place to ward off the imaginary crisis that has generated billions in wealth for ESG capital and for politically connected figures like Al Gore.

by Blazingcatfur•March 13, 2023March 12, 2023•0•Green-Scam