As a general rule of common sense and decency, if you’re going to spend more than $120 billion of other people’s money, you best be sure it’s a good idea. Unfortunately, the Trudeau government seems unaware of this rule.
Green-Scam
Electric vehicles lose up to 30% range when temperatures dip below freezing, study finds
Electric vehicles (EVs) can lose up to 30 per cent of their range in freezing temperatures, according to a U.S. firm that tested range loss in 7,000 cars.
Seattle-based Recurrent measured range loss in 7,000 EVs at temperatures between –7 C and –1 C.
At the low end, the Jaguar I-Pace had an estimated range loss of three per cent, while the Volkswagen ID.4 had a 30 per cent range loss at those temperatures.
How the green elites are impoverishing the world
Climate targets are standing in the way of global development.
The global super-rich love to warn us about climate change. They love to preach about all the things we’ll need to give up and all the sacrifices we should make. But they also love to travel in private jets and live in lavish mansions by the sea. They emit orders of magnitude more CO2 than the average person. So what explains this mismatch? Is there more to it than just hypocrisy?
Canada’s Electric Car Mandate to Increase Grid Demand 23%, Ratepayer Costs Unknown, Says Government
To power electric vehicle charging stations in the coming decades, Canada’s power grid will have to expand by 23 percent—and it’s uncertain how much that will cost ratepayers, according to Natural Resources Canada (NRCan).
The government announced in December that all new vehicle sales must be zero-emission by 2035. Conservative MP Warren Steinley asked NRCan to say how much this would impact electricity use and its costs. The answer came in an Inquiry of Ministry tabled last week, first reported on by Blacklock’s Reporter.
I have zero confidence in government studies promoting Trudeau’s Electric-La-La-Land.
Green Fail: Dozens of Scottish Windmills Powered by Diesel Generators
Scotland’s green-obsessed left-separatist government has been left with egg on its face by revelations that dozens of gigantic onshore wind turbines are having to be hooked up to diesel generators, leaking thousands of litres of hydraulic oil into the countryside.
Wind Turbines Taller Than the Statue of Liberty Are Falling Over
On a calm, sunny day last June, Mike Willey was feeding his cattle when he got a call from the local sheriff’s dispatcher. A motorist had reported that one of the huge turbines at a nearby wind farm had collapsed in dramatic fashion. Willey, chief of the volunteer fire department in Ames, 90 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, set out to survey the scene.
Hot Air: No Global Warming for Eight Years
Recently published data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows that there has not been global warming for the past eight years. And NASA satellite data reportedly confirms that evidence, showing no global warming for eight years and five months, according to JunkScience’s Steve Milloy. But leftists are quick to warn people against drawing the obvious conclusion that the world isn’t about to become a burning ball of fire.
Wind winding down?
Sometimes it’s funny how coming across an article will make you smile because of a memory triggered by some aspect of it. That happened yesterday, and again today, when I came across these pieces on the chaos in the wind turbine manufacturing sector.
The Rising Cost of Electric Vehicles
For a new (or, more accurately, updated) technology that some people are clamoring to buy — there’s a lengthy waiting list — electric vehicles (EVs) are receiving a remarkable amount of taxpayer support. There are federal tax credits for the purchase of qualified EVs and, for that matter, EV chargers. A number of states also provide incentives for the purchase of EVs. Not only that, the Biden administration has committed to allocating $5 billion to the states to set up a “national charging network” of 500,000 public chargers by 2030. It won’t be enough money, and the target date may not be realistic, but central planning is like that. Another $2.5 billion will be available to help fund various worthy EV-related causes, including supporting “community and corridor charging.”
The climate scaremongers: Drive to EVs is killing the British car industry
THE wheels are well and truly coming off the government’s campaign to make us all buy electric cars (EVs).
The latest setback came when the start-up Britishvolt collapsed into administration last month.The company planned to build a giant factory to manufacture electric car batteries in Blyth, Northumberland. However it was unable to raise the finance even to start construction.
Britishvolt was supposed to build a plant in Quebec.
Freeland flummoxed after Biden’s tax credits up-end Green-Scam
Freeland to call for joint federal-provincial effort to counter Biden’s tax credits
When finance ministers meet in Toronto today, they’ll hear both an update on the country’s economic outlook and a pitch from Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland on the need for a shared response to the competitive challenges posed by the United States.
“This is not a space where the federal government can act alone,” a senior government official told CBC News. “There are no guarantees of success and as a country we are going to need to up our game.”
The challenge comes primarily from the measures in the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, which cleared the U.S. Congress last year. It includes uncapped tax credits designed to unleash investment to accelerate the transition to a cleaner economy south of the border.
Canadians are fecked thanks to the axis of weasels that comprise our ruling class.
The LPC Green-scam is running out of road.
Electrification of Windsor’s auto industry promises new jobs — but what happens to blue-collar workers?
For 23 years, Jayson Mercier has packed a meal, left his home and hit the road to go to work at the Windsor Assembly Plant.
The southwestern Ontario city’s biggest employer is about to go through some major changes as Stellantis, the company that owns the plant, makes big moves to electrify its automobiles. From a $4.9-billion investment to build a new electric vehicle (EV) battery plant and a $3.6-billion investment to retool both the Windsor and Brampton assembly plants for fully electric vehicles — times are changing.
Count on the CBC to push the lie about “Good Green Jobs.” Jobs are antithetical to the green-scam.
Joe Biden puts America First on electric vehicles
The president’s green protectionism is freezing out his allies
A trade war is brewing between the United States and its closest allies. When Thierry Breton, the EU’s internal markets commissioner, pulled out of a summit with US officials just before Christmas, he complained that the agenda ‘no longer gives sufficient space to issues of concern to many European industry ministers and businesses’. A few days before, Emmanuel Macron cornered senator Joe Manchin in Washington DC. ‘You’re hurting my country’, the French president told Manchin. The senator was given a similarly frosty reception at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where Germany’s Olaf Scholz and Luxembourg’s Xavier Bettel accosted him caustically.
The Europeans are upset about Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), written by Manchin’s office, which commits $370 billion (£300 billion) to clean energy projects based in North America.
The real climate crisis is sinister ideology
IT IS easy to get bogged down in the technical detail of the climate debate. But science can distract us from the fact that before climate change, environmentalists made exactly the same kind of predictions that now drive arguments for draconian climate policies. The gloomy predictions of civilisation’s imminent collapse made by environmentalists in the 1970s came to nothing – the world population grew larger, wealthier, healthier and safer. This should alert us to the fact that, whether or not ‘climate change is real’, environmentalism is a radical political ideology, bent on reorganising the world, whatever the facts are. It is not merely a response to scientific discovery about our relationship with the natural world.
The government wants you to own an electric vehicle — but who can even afford them?
As both the government and auto makers push to make car owners transition to electric vehicles, astronomical prices threaten to make that out of reach for many Canadians.
That means that while the federal government wants every passenger vehicle sold in Canada to be electric by 2035, unless the prices become more reasonable for the average consumer, it might not be a realistic expectation.
James Godfrey, general manager at Eastway Toyota and Lexus of Windsor, says electric vehicles — a promise on the near horizon of buyers everywhere — are sold at much higher price points than internal combustion engine vehicles or hybrids. And due to supply chain issues, he says, vehicle prices in general have seen a big jump in the last few years.
The CBC is running propaganda for the LPC’s zealous commitment to a dubious technology that auto manufacturers have begun speaking out against.
California’s plan to power EVs has one glaring shortcoming
You may have already heard about California Governor Gavin Newsom’s announcement last year that his state will ban the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035. Restrictions on how many non-electric vehicles can be sold will begin in just three years. This is making all of the climate alarmists very happy, of course, but there is a significantly large fly in the ointment of this plan. In order to charge up roughly 12.5 million EVs on a daily basis, the state will need to have a lot of electricity available on the power grid. But nobody seems to have run through all of the numbers with the Governor.