Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk spoke at a conference in Norway on Monday, and amid his announcement that he plans to have self-driving Teslas on the market by the end of the year, he made the admission to reporters that the transition away from fossil fuels is happening too quickly.
In the push to transition from fossil fuels to greener energy, a key piece of the puzzle is accessing materials to help accelerate the technological shift — namely, rare earth elements.
The group of 17 metallic elements has the potential to be a key economic driver for countries mining and processing them. They are crucial for building components for everything from wind turbines and electric-vehicle batteries to cell phones and other products.
But they also come with lingering questions over the short- and long-term environmental impacts associated with the mining process.
This will play out like oil & natural gas has. “Environmental concerns” will via economy killing legislation be able to initiate lengthy and expensive delays rendering virtually any new project dead from the word go.
Other nations will eat our lunch and dinner.
Justin and the CBC will be happy.
Even if you’re never hit by a 7-ton blade falling from the night sky, alternative energy will fail you. Regardless of facts or feelings about the climate, there are reasons why wind and solar power are not replacing fossil fuels. Wind and solar are also no substitute for nuclear power.
Canadians should be alarmed about how many business opportunities will be lost because Prime Minister Justin Trudeau thinks of Canada’s oil and gas sector primarily in terms of downsizing it.
Stupidity is not always painful. Often it can be laughed away with some embarrassment and minimal injury to the victims, allowing life to trundle on. But deep, cavernous stupidity on a national scale is something else. Everyone suffers.
Germany comes to mind – yes, the same country admired for its industrial prowess, green environmental policies and generally rational corporate and political management style.
A B.C. provincial court judge has accused a conservation group of using frontline protesters as “sacrificial lambs” to mount illegal traffic blockades aimed at drawing attention to their climate change agenda by stirring up chaos.
In a searing decision, Judge Laura Bakan gave a conditional discharge to a 30-year-old who took part earlier this year in repeated Save Old Growth demonstrations.
Bakan said Ian Wiltow Schortinghuis was the type of “unsophisticated” person organizers convince to get themselves arrested instead of those who “pull the strings.”
As reported exclusively by Frontpage Magazine, Americans can expect to see their chances of an IRS audit increase fourfold under the Biden-Manchin ‘Inflation Increase Act’. The massive upsurge in IRS enforcement was justified as a way to pay for the massive spending in the bill. Much of that spending consists of green pork for Democrat donors and special interests.
Australians love big cars. The bestselling model for the past six years has been the Toyota Hilux, a two-tonne pick-up truck with space to throw a surfboard in the back.
It weighs as much as two Vauxhall Corsas, with a 2.8-litre diesel engine that belches about twice as much carbon dioxide as Britain’s favourite car.
It is as popular among suburbanites on the school run as it is with farmers, tradesmen and surfers, as are numerous other “utes” — Australian slang for a two or four-door pick-up truck with an open cargo tray in the rear instead of a boot.
Americans who fancy themselves net-zero climate advocates might want to take a look at Britain for a guide to the future. Household energy bills were expected to rise 40% this autumn, but on Friday the government regulator announced they’ll leap 80% in a single bound.
This boost follows a 54% rise in April and brings the average household’s annual bill to £3,549 ($4,208). The median household income is £31,400, which gives a sense of the growing proportion of each household’s budget that will go toward central heating, cooking and keeping the lights on. For the ruling Tories, this is a political calamity.
An online story from one of our broadcasters contained an incredible sentence. For — the sentence made sense. Hence, it was incredible.
Here it is: “One economist suggested Europe should drop its focus on climate change and instead prioritize keeping their countries warm and their lights on in the coming months.”
LONDON (Reuters) – No more ironing, limited oven use and showering at work – Europeans are trying to keep their energy use down but the bills keep climbing.
As wholesale gas and electricity prices surge, millions of people in Europe are now spending a record amount of their income on energy, data show.
In the east England town of Grimsby, Philip Keetley didn’t turn on his cooling fan at home as Britain sweltered under a record heat-wave this summer.
A look at his bank account showed he couldn’t afford to.
“… A sustainability component would encourage Americans to eat less meat and dairy, which have a significantly higher climate impact than nutritionally comparable plant-based foods. “It would be virtually impossible to even meet the two-degree [Celsius] limit in global temperature change without incorporating substantial reductions in beef intake,” said Mark Rifkin, senior food and agriculture policy specialist for the Center for Biological Diversity, another signatory to the letter.”
LONDON (AP) — Jennifer Jones keeps feeding money into her energy meter, but it never seems to be enough. And when she can’t pay, she feels the impact immediately.
The power in her London home has gone off suddenly three times recently, once when her partner was cooking an egg.
… To blame for the increase is the soaring price of wholesale natural gas triggered by Russia’s war in Ukraine, which is driving up consumer prices and roiling economies across Europe that rely on the fuel for heating homes and generating electricity.
How long until people decide that the war being waged is against them and Ukraine is just a smokescreen?
I support Ukraine but the cynical manipulation by the Green-scammers like Trudeau who use the crisis to advance their harmful agenda is appalling and needs to end.
The CEO of a Quebec-based oil and gas company is calling out Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s claim that there has “never been a strong business case” for liquefied natural gas exports from Canada’s East Coast to Europe.
Mario Lévesque, chief executive of Utica Resources, says the rationale for exporting natural gas from Quebec is “crystal clear,” and would generate “tens of billions in royalties and taxes” for Ottawa.
Trudeau’s Green-Scam is more important than the economic well being of you and your children. Your impoverishment is proof to Justin that his plan is working.
Bet that Chevy Volt sounded like a good idea at first. pic.twitter.com/q57U0gZowU
— Rob O'Donnell (@odonnell_r) August 25, 2022
h/t RM
