While inflation is at its highest rate in more than three decades, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is ignoring warnings from his own government’s environmental and financial watchdogs that his carbon pricing/taxation regime is hurting most Canadians in their pocketbooks, especially the most vulnerable.
Ottawa’s promised “just transition” to a new, low-carbon economy is now revealed as a useless sham.
Coals miners in Alberta and Saskatchewan have faced transition for several years now. But the feds have done nothing to help them, and have no working plan to start despite many promises.
That’s the conclusion of the federal auditor general, who finds that bureaucrats sat on their fat portfolios even as coal workers were losing their jobs.
The Trudeau eco-fascists are liars. Evil liars. Period.
Canada’s environment commissioner said Tuesday the country may not be able to reach its 2030 emissions reductions targets because the federal government’s current plan is based on “unrealistic” assumptions about the role hydrogen will play in the energy mix in years to come.
The commissioner, Jerry DeMarco, released a series of audits today that document the federal government’s environment-related shortcomings — including its failure to produce a meaningful “just transition” plan for energy workers displaced by the transition to a low-carbon economy and the uneven application of a supposedly national price on carbon emissions.
But DeMarco was perhaps most scathing in his assessment of the government’s hydrogen strategy, which he said is based on “overly optimistic” assumptions that “compromise the credibility” of the government’s entire emissions reduction plan.
Despite years of coercive effort on the part of the government and billions spent trying to get Canadians to buy electric vehicles, only a mere 5 percent of drivers have chosen to go electric. Research conducted by the Department of Natural Resources concluded that most Canadians simply found electric vehicles to be too expensive to purchase.
So how has the government responded to this information?
With or without Congressional support, President Joe Biden has determined to move the U.S. as quickly as possible toward an economy predominantly powered by wind- and solar-sourced electricity. In his earliest days in office, Biden issued multiple Executive Orders directing the federal bureaucracy to bend all efforts to achieve this goal. One of those early Executive Orders, dated January 27, 2021 and titled “Tackling the Climate Crisis At Home and Abroad,” stated:
“It is the policy of my Administration to organize and deploy the full capacity of its agencies to combat the climate crisis to implement a Government-wide approach that reduces climate pollution in every sector of the economy…”
When burned to generate energy, fossil fuels — coal, oil and natural gas — all emit carbon dioxide, otherwise known in Biden-speak as “climate pollution.” Thus, under Biden’s directive, they are all to be suppressed. The alternative of expanding nuclear power has meanwhile equally been made impractical by regulatory obstruction…
The Limits to Growth is still “as wrongheaded as it is possible to be.”
Cassandra in Greek mythology was the Trojan priestess who was cursed to utter true prophecies but never to be believed. Ideological environmentalism features a cohort of reverse Cassandras: They make false prophecies that are widely believed. Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich in his 1968 classic, The Population Bomb, prophesied, “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.” Ehrlich continues to predict imminent overpopulation doom.
At some point in my life, I suspect either my wife or I will own an electric vehicle. They are elegant pieces of technology.
But the Trudeau government’s goal of having 60 per cent of new vehicles sold in Canada be electric by 2030 is laughable.
“Climate change” is the last priority for Americans and has dropped as an issue that must be dealt with immediately, according to a CBS News/YouGov poll on Friday.
Coca-Cola Consolidated and Giant Food held an Earth Day environmental cleanup event with a Democratic Washington, D.C., councilman who has accused Jews of controlling the climate.
Ward 8 councilman Trayon White Sr., who is challenging incumbent mayor Muriel Bowser in the Democratic mayoral primary, teamed up with the Coke-bottling company and grocery chain last week to host the cleanup day for Oxon Run, a stream located in White’s ward.
Electric vehicle sales grew almost 60 per cent last year but they need to pick up the pace even more to hit the new federal sales mandates expected by the end of this year.
Statistics Canada released the latest quarterly data on new vehicle registrations Thursday, showing in the fourth quarter of 2021, plug-in cars and SUVs made up more than six per cent of new vehicle registrations for the first time.
Maybe solid state batteries are the future? Toyota plans solid-state battery by 2025, but it won’t be for an EV
But where is all the hydro coming from?
Today is Earth Day. It is a holiday created by environmentalists in the 1970s to help protect the environment and save the planet. Like many things in this country’s history, the annual celebration has its roots in Philadelphia. Earth Day’s founder, Ira Einhorn, was born there, and the first Earth Day event occurred in the city’s famous Fairmount Park in 1970. But while Einhorn magnanimously wanted to save the planet, he showed no such virtue to his girlfriend Holly Maddux, whom he murdered in cold blood.
While a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Einhorn was in a relationship with Maddux, a graduate of nearby Bryn Mawr College. After dating for five years, Maddux ended the relationship in 1977. Afterward, Einhorn descended into a jealous rage and killed her.
The Trudeau government’s policies and a timid Bank of Canada helped create the increasingly unaffordable world Canadians now live in
Don’t worry, it will get worse. Inflation soared 6.7 per cent in March, the highest in 30 years, and driven by a 40 per cent increase in gas prices year over year. This was, of course, before the federal carbon tax increased at the beginning of the month. Higher energy prices don’t just affect the cost of transportation, they contribute to inflated prices in every sector of the economy. Higher gas bills, which the Liberal government aims to be a permanent feature of Canadian life, means higher prices for food, clothing and anything moved by truck.
Batteries are the new oil — and the U.S. is lagging behind Europe and China in the race to make them.
Why it matters: The historic shift to electric vehicles will give the U.S. a fresh chance to achieve energy independence, but it will require complex strategic moves that won’t pay off for years.
The big picture: Most of today’s advanced batteries — not only to power cars and consumer electronics but also to store clean energy — are sourced in Asia.
Last month, Biden invoked the Cold War-era Defense Production Act -I guess Canada has a shot at a traditional role as hewers of lithium for the US Market or perhaps the future is Balkanized state production as the article suggests.
Electricity has been the most successful sector of the Canadian economy in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, albeit at an enormous cost to provincial taxpayers and hydro ratepayers.
But a new plan by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to achieve net zero emissions by 2035 could lead to blackouts, brownouts, soaring electricity bills and massive new debt.
I don’t know why this hasn’t gone viral. 😂 pic.twitter.com/fGqRFuMWDx
— Wake Awake (@WakeAwake1) April 19, 2022
Rising expenses and regulatory hurdles limit Americans’ mobility.
When I started driving, my folks planted me behind the wheel of a nearly unbreakable late-’70s Jeep Wagoneer. “The tank” got me to work, rock concerts, and parties. It got me through snowstorms that stranded lesser vehicles on the roadside. In a pinch, it could fit me, 10 of my friends, and a keg of beer in relative comfort (at least for the keg).
I miss the tank. Unlike our newer SUV, it would have barely suffered a scratch when my 16-year-old son hit a signpost. But I’m glad my kid, even without the tank to learn in, has taken to life behind the wheel and the freedom that comes with driving.
