As Illinois transitions into a more electric vehicle-friendly state, an energy analyst says the cost to charge vehicles may slow the process.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker wants 1 million electric vehicles on Illinois roadways by the end of the decade. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, at the end of last year, there were just over 36,000 EV’s registered in Illinois.
From “PPE” to “flattening the curve,” the COVID-19 era has added a host of new phrases to our popular lexicon.
One of the most perplexing has to be “revenge travel,” which speaks to the zealous need many of us have to experience sunnier climes after a year or two in a pandemic holding pattern.
No one is quite sure who minted the expression; some people in the tourism business find it a bit distasteful. But it was on full display this past summer, as the mortal risk of COVID-19 subsided and travel returned in force. Airports around the world — including, infamously, Toronto’s Pearson — buckled under the strain.
They don’t want YOU to fly.
So, OPEC+ went ahead and slashed 2 million barrels a day from production despite the pathetic entreaties from the Biden administration. The President and his minions went begging hat in hand — and got nothing.
Because of Mr. Biden’s misbegotten, unscientific, hysterical obsession over climate change and his holy jihad against American fossil fuels, we now find ourselves once again dependent on the Middle Eastern oil sheikhs.
From the highway just south of Prince George, B.C., you can see the logs, thousands of them, piled neatly in rows.
They were cut from trees in old growth and primary forests in the province’s Interior.
This timber won’t be used to build homes or furniture, or even to make paper. These logs will be ground and compressed into tiny pellets, shipped to Europe and Asia and burned to produce fuel for electricity.
That’s why we call it a green-scam.
How a Quebec graphite mine is dividing a community’s support for the EV revolution
The Matawinie mine is part of a larger plan to make Canada into a manufacturing hub for lithium ion batteries. But some worry the project isn’t as clean as it claims to be
The Matawinie graphite mine, located about two hours north of Montreal, is a small part of an ambitious government plan to make Canada into a manufacturing hub for lithium ion batteries. Electric cars can’t function without somewhere to store electricity, the thinking goes, meaning this country needs battery supply chains if it hopes to stay relevant in a future without fossil fuels.
But the mine has not yet begun producing graphite at commercial scale. It is still in the early phases of construction – and, like many Canadian resource projects, it is riven with controversy. Although some locals welcome the economic boost it represents for them and their neighbours, others say that whatever the project’s ultimate benefits, its effect on their community will be destructive.
I can’t wait till they start trying to build the reactors necessary to charge everyone’s EV.
Green policies have crippled Europe. They will do the same to America
Since the beginning of the Ukraine war and the sanctions it triggered, energy prices have skyrocketed. President Joe Biden has called this year’s high energy prices “Putin’s price hike.” British prime minister Liz Truss told households that their high energy bills were a fair price to pay for solidarity with Ukraine. Margrethe Vestager, vice president of the European Commission, has encouraged Europeans to take short, cold showers to conserve energy. “When you turn off the water, say ‘Take that, Putin!’” she urged.
Green virtue signaling is no substitute for an energy industry.
The Europeans decided to embrace green energy at the cost of outsourcing their actual energy needs to Russia and Ukraine. After a war of over 200 days, tens of thousands dead, skyrocketing energy prices, they are slowly realizing that green virtue signaling is no substitute for an energy industry.
Who remembers the most impressive protest that took place in Canada in the cold winter months earlier this year?
Why would I call it the most impressive? The answer or answers, is and are, very simple.
“Clean”, like “smart”, has become the prerequisite for all technology. Both are myths.
Smart technology is surveillance technology. It is not smarter because of its inherent qualities, but because it sends and receives data that allows it to be “smarter” in manipulating users. The smart part of smart technology comes from human beings. So does the stupid part when people sacrifice their privacy and independence for the benefits of technology being shaped to them.
Clean energy is even more of a myth. The Inflation Increase Act doles out another stream of billions toward the inefficient forms of energy generation that the government has been subsidizing for over 50 years because some Madison Avenue ad agency branded them “clean”.
The world is waking up to the fact that the climate policy goal of achieving “net-zero” CO2 emissions brings crippling economic pain. Fossil fuel prices shot up by 26 per cent across industrialized economies last year and will rise globally by another 50 per cent this year. Politicians blame Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but the long-term trend stems mostly from governments demonizing fossil fuels while their societies remain dependent on them. Since the 2015 Paris climate agreement, global investment in fossil fuels has halved, inevitably driving up prices.
As Europe faces a winter of skyrocketing natural gas prices driving millions of people unable to afford to heat their homes into energy poverty, it’s alarming how western leaders — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau among them — continue to take precisely the wrong message from what has happened.
From Trudeau, to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and other European leaders, to the Biden administration in the U.S., their misguided battle cry is the same.
Wood from primary forests in British Columbia has been used to fuel the U.K.’s largest power plant, according to a BBC investigation. The company that runs it, which denies the allegations, has received over $9 billion in green energy subsidies from the British government.
Those allegations are troubling for Mike Morris, the provincial representative for Prince George-Mackenzie in central B.C., near where the company operates.
Canadians need the Trudeau government to deal with the realities of skyrocketing fuel, food and mortgage costs
The greatest and most characteristic failure of the Trudeau administration has been its war against the oil and gas industry. It was so-early signalled. There is, for example, this brilliant pat-on-his-own-back — a yoga twist Mr. Justin has perfectly mastered — from nine years ago: “I am pleased to announce that we will keep our commitment to implement a moratorium on crude oil tanker shipping on British Columbia’s north coast.”
Gas prices in Ontario are expected to jump by 10 cents later this week, a single-day jump that one industry analyst says has only happened a few times this decade.
According to industry analyst Dan McTeague, prices at the pump will increase as of midnight on Wednesday.
“You don’t see that very often,” McTeague told CTV News Toronto Monday night. “Normally you see 10 to 15 cents a litre over a two-day period but never in one big fell swoop.”
In the name of ‘saving democracy,’ the global ruling class is making sure nobody’s votes count but theirs.
In a September interview that went viral on social media Sunday, a United Nations operative admitted the U.S. government-funded organization “partnered with Google” to rig the results returned on the world’s dominant search engine for the phrase “climate change.”
NEW – UN Secretary for Global Comms says they “own the science” on “climate change,” and opposing viewpoints have now been pushed down in search results through their partnership with Google.pic.twitter.com/fMaPYsHGUT
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