“Net-Zero Tyranny”

Ottawa’s EV timeline is way too optimistic

The federal government recently finalized regulations for its “zero-emissions vehicle” mandate. The mandate requires sellers of light vehicles (passenger cars and light trucks) to sell a rising minimum of zero-emissions vehicles — basically, electric vehicles or EVs — every year, culminating with 100 per cent EVs in 2035, just 11 years from now. Reasonable forecasts of production and sales make clear that Ottawa’s timeline is unrealistic.

There cannot be optimism for an idea doomed to fail from the start.

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

ANALYSIS: Charging, Resale Among Added Hurdles Slowing EV Adoption

The near-term challenges of mass electric vehicle (EV) adoption inevitably begin with price, but a recent cold snap has re-emphasized battery and charging snags. In addition, as prices for new EVs trend down, new buyers also have to consider potentially lower resale values.

Tom Narayan, lead equity analyst covering global autos at RBC Capital Markets, told BNN Bloomberg on Jan. 31 that the EV market is going through a bit of a slowdown.

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

Alberta’s 4,481 Megawatts of Wind Power Produced Only 3 MW Monday Night, 2 Tuesday Morning

Where are we going? Lower! That was the trend for wind power production in Alberta on Monday, Feb. 5, as the 4,481 megawatts of nameplate wind power generation capacity fell to just three megawatts output. That’s less than 0.1 percent, or less than 1 one-thousandth of nameplate capacity. If you want to get really technical, it’s actually 0.07 percent, or 7 ten-thousandths of nameplate capacity.

That’s according to minute-by-minute data from the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO).

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

NDP calls for ban on ‘misleading, deceptive’ fossil fuel ads

The NDP lives in a very different reality than you and me.

Federal New Democrats say it’s time for Canada to do to the fossil fuel industry what it did to tobacco companies by banning misleading ads that market the industry as offering a solution to climate change.

The NDP’s natural resources critic Charlie Angus tabled a private members bill (C-372) in the House of Commons this week. The bill would ban what the party describes as misleading fossil fuel advertising, similar to the way cigarette ads were restricted in the 1990s.

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

Biden Admin Classifies Martha’s Vineyard And Other Elite Enclaves ‘Low-Income’ To Push EV Charger Subsidies

Some of the wealthiest liberal enclaves in the country are being classified by the Biden administration as “low-income” in order to qualify for an electric vehicle (EV) charger subsidy program contained within the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the Daily Caller reports.

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

Army of angry farmers forces EU to abandon emissions goals

Farmers have forced Brussels to abandon its most demanding emissions targets, with the European Union retreating in the face of a revolt over climate goals and red tape.

In the past few weeks demonstrations have taken place across Europe, in France, Germany, Poland and on Monday in Italy where convoys of tractors were preparing for an “invasion” of Rome.

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‘Trailblazing’ electric van start-up Arrival runs out of road

Arrival UK, an electric van start-up, has fallen into administration less than three years after a $13 billion float, in a fresh blow to Britain’s green energy ambitions.

EY has been appointed to explore options for the break-up and sale of the group’s operations. Arrival, based in Banbury, Oxfordshire, has two factories in the county. Its parent company, listed in America, employs about 400 people worldwide.

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

Pushing electric vehicles is virtue-signalling and fighting the free market

The problem with government mandates aimed at manipulating free markets is they are typically based in political expediency, not commercial reality.

As more potholes appear on the road to electric-vehicle nirvana, edicts by lawmakers in Canada and states such as California and New York to require all new-car sales be EVs by 2035 are proving the point: Politically motivated virtue signals rarely withstand pressure testing from real-world market forces.

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Greens try to flip the script: Blame conservatives, not the Green Deal

LYON, France — We have met the enemy, and he is not us.

That was the defiant battle cry in southern France over the weekend, where Europe’s green politicians had gathered under a cloud of fury seemingly directed at them.

Farmers have taken to the streets in recent weeks to protest EU environmental regulations and cross-border competition while demanding better wages — issues that could easily be lumped under the Green Deal umbrella, a slate of climate-friendly policies that literally bear the European Green Party’s name.

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Early testing shows EVs smash through guardrails like bulldozers

Last Saturday I took my boys to the local museum of natural science, and although we live close enough to walk, it was pouring rain, so we drove. Without thinking I parked, but my oldest pointed out that the car next to us looked like an E.V. and suggested I find another spot, so I did—I may or may not have instilled in my kids a healthy and rational skepticism of the E.V. movement, and a concern that these cars are exceptional fire hazards (but definitely did).

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

Canada’s huge bet on the EV battery industry demands a jolt of reality

When it comes to the green transition, let no one say the Trudeau government is unwilling to put other people’s money where its mouth is. Why, in just one sector, a sector of a sector really – making batteries for electric vehicles – the government has put $44-billion at risk: one of the “big bets” on Canada’s industrial future of which it likes to boast.

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“This Is Not the Europe We Want”: Farmers Bring the Fight to EU’s Front Door

EU policies are suffocating European farmers with “Soviet-style administration of agriculture,” French MEP says

Protesting farmers were met by riot police with fire hoses just metres from the European Parliament on Thursday, as they tried to grab the attention of the European Council by expressing their collective outrage at EU green policies threatening their livelihood.

In an unusually rowdy protest, even by Brussels standards, tyre fires and tractor blockades greeted European leaders as a transnational coalition of farming groups took to the streets. They are angered by EU green policies—including decrees forcing active farmland to go fallow, restricting the use of fertiliser, and limiting permitted amount of livestock—as well as national edicts such as reduced subsidies on diesel fuel—that are direct results of the EU’s Net Zero commitments.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elites vs. Populists", "Net-Zero Tyranny"