“Net-Zero Tyranny”

Germany’s solar obsession is killing its economy

Amid reports of Germany’s economy contracting, Vice Chancellor and Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Robert Habeck has made a sub-optimal if predictable announcement. Citing renewables as Germany’s primary future energy source, Habeck said that manufacturing businesses should adjust their production according to the weather. German industry, he insisted, should produce more when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing. On still or cloudy days, production should be allowed to falter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

US leads wealthy countries spending billions of public money on unproven ‘climate solutions’

Over $12bn in subsidies awarded for technologies like carbon capture experts call ‘colossal waste of money’

A handful of wealthy polluting countries led by the US are spending billions of dollars of public money on unproven climate solutions technologies that risk further delaying the transition away from fossil fuels, new analysis suggests.

These governments have handed out almost $30bn in subsidies for carbon capture and fossil hydrogen over the past 40 years, with hundreds of billions potentially up for grabs through new incentives, according to a new report by Oil Change International (OCI), a non-profit tracking the cost of fossil fuels.

To date, the European Union (EU) plus just four countries – the US, Norway, Canada and the Netherlands – account for 95% of the public handouts on CCS and hydrogen.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Green-Scam

Battle brewing between auditor general and House of Commons over ‘green slush fund’ documents

OTTAWA – A parliamentary battle is brewing between the House of Commons and Auditor General Karen Hogan, who has so far refused to comply with an order demanding she hand over documents relating to her scathing audit of the so-called “green slush fund.”

Parliament’s halls may be sleepy during the quiet summer months, but drama has been building between the House of Commons, the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) and, to a lesser degree, the RCMP over a motion adopted by MPs nearly three months ago.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Kelly McParland: While the Liberals fixate on electric vehicles, people are buying hybrids

When politicians make important financial decisions based on a movie they may have seen as kids, it shouldn’t come as a shock if the results prove to be sub-optimal.

Field of Dreams was a hit 1989 film based on a 1982 novel about a 1919 baseball scandal. An Iowa farmer played by Kevin Costner repeatedly hears an ethereal voice advising him “If you build it, he will come.” So he constructs a ball diamond in a corn field and, sure enough, long-dead figures from a long-gone baseball team — including Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe Jackson — come wandering out of the fields for a game of pick-up.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ford Loses $44,000 On Every EV Sells As It Switches To Hybrids

Last week, we reported that Ford was canceling its plans for a three-row electric crossover as part of an adjustment to its electric strategy because of cooling demand for EVs. Now we are getting a better look at just how much that strategy is changing and what it’ll end up costing The Blue Oval. Chiefly, Ford is expected to take on $1.9 billion in related charges and write-downs.

The cancelation of this three-row EV comes after Ford said in the Spring that it would be delaying plans for the model by two years to 2027. It also comes during mounting pressure to restore aggressive discounts to get their current EVs off dealer lots.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Derek Burney: EVs sales and production clash with market realities

EV sales in North America face new market realities and automakers are shifting their production to meet actual, rather than anticipated demand. After being encouraged by government policy to invest tens of billions of dollars to transition to electric vehicles, companies are rapidly changing gears.

As Sam Fiorani, Vice President of AutoForecast Solutions observed in March , “Getting the first 10 per cent of the electric vehicle market is relatively easy with a good product and a market that wants that product. The next 90 per cent will be much harder to convert.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Toronto man stupidly rents EV without much thought about where to charge it but CBC says your money can solve his problems

Toronto EV driver can’t use closest overnight charging station because of permit restrictions

A Toronto-based Uber driver spends nearly half an hour most days walking back and forth between an on-street electric vehicle (EV) charging station and his home.

John Chen says he could cut that walk down to eight minutes each way if the city allowed him to use a closer charging station in his neighbouring permit parking zone.

He can’t charge his EV at home because he doesn’t have a designated parking spot and relies on street parking.

Despite living on the edge of his own parking zone near Coxwell Avenue and Dundas Street, Chen says the city told him he can’t get a permit for the other zone to use the closer charger overnight.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", WTF?

The results are in: How much will wind energy cost this one state’s consumers?

On Friday, The Wall Street Journal published an article by Gordon Hughes that (somewhat rhetorically) asked this titular question: “Why Is New York Paying So Much for Wind Power?”

Hughes called the reader’s attention to the revelation that the state of New York had entered into a contract with two wind energy companies, an agreement that will quadruple the cost of energy for the consumer—and that’s including three billion in taxpayer dollars to offset the final price per megawatt-hour—which is “far above the break-even cost of generating electricity.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Auto Industry’s EV Retreat Hastens

Ford Motor’s decision this week to kill a highly touted future electric vehicle is a sign that the industry’s pullback on EVs is deepening.

The Dearborn, Mich., automaker said Wednesday it is canceling plans for an electric, family-hauler sport-utility vehicle that Chief Executive Jim Farley once touted as a “personalized bullet train.” The move added to the drumbeat of news from carmakers of delayed or scrapped investments into EV models, factories and battery projects.

General Motors, Volkswagen, Mercedes and other automakers also have curbed their EV ambitions in recent months. Taken together, the walked-back plans are an acknowledgment that the big investments outlined at the start of the decade got ahead of the consumer’s appetite for a full switch to EVs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Canada Reliant on China for Copper to Achieve Lower Carbon Emissions Goals: Report

Canada’s goal of reducing carbon emissions cannot be achieved without relying on China, a new energy industry report says.

The key to success is copper, an essential component of electrification, according to the authors of “Securing Copper Supply: no China, no energy transition,” published by data and analytics firm Wood Mackenzie.

China dominates in the smelting and refining of copper, which is essential to creating tools needed for cleaner energy and reduced carbon emissions, the report says.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ford Pulls Back Its Electric Vehicle Push

Ford Motor, which had once hoped to race ahead of other established automakers in electric vehicles, is again slowing the pace of its investments and new battery-powered models.

The automaker said on Wednesday that it would delay the introduction of a new large electric pickup truck by about 18 months, to 2027, and scrap a three-row electric sport-utility vehicle.

The company is also reducing the amount of money it plans to spend on electric vehicles in an effort to stem multibillion-dollar losses on the technology, while adding plans to introduce a new electric delivery van in 2026. A new medium-sized electric pickup is expected in 2027 as well, the company said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Would you buy an affordable EV made in China?

As the federal government mulls whether to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, some Canadians say they would jump at the chance to buy a cheaper EV manufactured in that country.

Ottawa held a month-long consultation in July on how to handle Beijing’s powerful presence in the EV sector. Tariffs are among the options on the table.

Michael Wawrykowicz, who lives in Edmonton, uses a small Mitsubishi EV he bought second-hand four years ago for short trips around the city.

Given this is the CBC, I suspect the article is a trial balloon sent up by the Trudeau gov’t.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Margaret McCuaig-Johnston: Canada must reject Chinese EVs, or face American wrath

Canada has developed a reputation internationally in recent years for being soft on China. The Hogue Commission has heard multitude stories of Chinese interference that have been known to the government with no action taken. Until Industry Minister François-Phillipe Champagne took the reins, investment review decisions handed Canadian companies over to companies that were Beijing-controlled. Defence spending is nowhere near what is needed for defence against Chinese forces in the Pacific or our own Arctic.

I’m not going to buy a domestic EV or a foreign EV.

Interesting … EU Cuts Planned Tariffs On Tesla’s China-Made EVs To 9%

The European Commission announced this AM that, in its ongoing findings of an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese imports of battery electric vehicles, all Tesla vehicles imported from China will be subject to a 9% tariff. Proposed tariffs on other EV companies were revised slightly ahead of what could become EU trade policy later this year.

Of all the proposed duties on Chinese EVs imported to the EU, Tesla appears to be the big winner and will pay the lowest rate of 9%. Reuters noted the EU “set a new reduced rate of 9% for Tesla, lower than the 20.8% it had indicated in July.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Why Canadian tariffs on Chinese EV are absolutely necessary

The Center for Strategic & International Studies just revealed the enormity of China’s subsidization of its EV industry

Will she or won’t she? Will Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announce tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles this week? If so, will she follow the American lead and tack on a 100% levy on any battery-powered vehicle BYD or Geely might dare to try to import to the United States? Or will ours be a more nuanced — dare I say World Trade Organization-approved — approach like the “variable” tariffs the E.U. are finalizing? The entire Canadian automotive industry awaits her decision with bated breath, with more than $50 billion — the monies promised to Volkswagen, Stellantis, et al to build battery plants here in the Great White Frozen North — hanging in the balance.

What are Trudeau’s China class backers saying?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Heat pumps could bring the German economy to its knees

Emissions would come down. It would create a high skill, high wage economy. And it would reboot industry, accelerate productivity, and deliver a boost to growth. For years we have been told that moving to Net Zero would create hundreds of thousands of jobs, and billions of euros, dollars and pounds have been thrown at the companies promising to make that happen.

But hold on. Now it turns out that the green jobs are disappearing at an accelerating pace – and the investment in creating them will have been squandered.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", "Net-Zero Tyranny"