Last week, my son announced at the dinner table that his school had turned off the lights for a time to “celebrate” Earth Day. To my mind, it seemed more of a lesson in why we need electricity to power our modern civilization, yet the kids were apparently allowed to spend the time playing computer games, which makes the overall point of the exercise hard to decipher.
The new dollar numbers are big, but it’s still the same old story, a fight for funds and automotive glory that, in the past, has produced few long-term substantial benefits that economists have been able to measure. Will the $13 billion that Canadian governments are now showering on Volkswagen to set up a battery plant in St. Thomas, Ont., produce a century of benefits as promised by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals?
In case you haven’t heard, the Trudeau government is heaving tax credits and other supports toward every “clean energy” project on the horizon, including clean electricity, hydrogen, vehicles, manufacturing, battery production, grid “modernization” and the list goes on.
The whole Green scam is an LPC slush fund.
If CO2 doesn’t kill us, the climate changistas warned, methane is going to do the job. The gas, which flatulent cows commonly emit, is so dangerous that it’s imperative that we switch to an insect diet, that we switch cows to an insect diet, or, failing that, put diapers or masks on cows, or even “toilet train” them. I’m sure you won’t be shocked to learn that the hysteria about methane is wrong because the atmosphere has a self-correcting mechanism.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada is “very serious” about reviving nuclear energy production to lower the country’s reliance on fossil fuels.
The prime minister made the comments in response to a question about Canada’s LNG exports to Germany during a discussion with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and university students in Ottawa on Monday. Trudeau last year said he wasn’t persuaded to advance liquid natural gas exports to Germany, which has been searching for alternative energy sources as it moves away from Russian imports after the Kremlin ordered the invasion of Ukraine.
That Fucking Liar is Fucking Lying again.
Thirteen billion dollars in government subsidies are going to Volkswagen to build an electric vehicle battery plant in Ontario. That’s what the Liberal government calls a “business case.” Thirteen billion dollars to build a $7-billion factory. Of course such a massive payout — bribe? — would only be provided for a “green” business case.
We should spend Earth Hour in a salute to coal, oil, gas, and uranium.
It was coal that produced clean electric power which cleared the smog produced by dirty combustion and open fires in big cities like London and Pittsburgh. Much of the third world still suffers choking fumes and smog because they do not have clean electric power and burn green fuels like wood, cardboard, and cow dung for cooking and home heating.
The spectre of power failure is haunting Europe as Britain and Germany demonstrate that modern societies can’t run on wind and solar power. Wind droughts are the fatal flaw in the system and one can envisage a future book titled How Wind Droughts Destroyed Western Civilisation. Think about the consequences of a system blackout if Net Zero policies are pursued to the bitter end in Western Europe and Australia…
GUNTER: Entire federal push for EVs and eco regulations a scam
… Sources at the city and EPCOR have warned me, too, that permits for 200-amp services will soon be cut off because the grid just can’t take more than a few homes per neighbourhood with rapid-charging stations.
Forewarned, we had an electrician come out Thursday to look at our wiring and panels. Boy did I learn quickly another reason why the forced conversion to EVs is doomed to fail.
Right off the top, the electrician said we can’t have 200-amp service because our neighbourhood has no overhead powerlines. Everything is underground.
By 2035 all cars, SUVs and light trucks sold in Canada must be electric, a goal experts describe as an ambitious one by the federal government as part of its plan to decarbonize the transportation sector and reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
But will Canada’s infrastructure be able to handle all of these new electric vehicles?
There doesn’t seem to be a clear answer, as experts in the automotive and green energy industries say there are several factors to consider.
This article makes me think they solicited Beaker’s advice.
New data confirm that several common environmentalist talking points about energy are highly misleading. The chasm between reality and eco-activist fantasy is so wide that even the Washington Post — not exactly a right-wing media outlet — has taken notice.
A new EPA order is intended to force automakers to produce electric vehicles so that they’d account for two-thirds of sales in 2032 — roughly 10 times their share in 2022.
Are we watching a replay of King Canute commanding the waves to recede? That thought occurred to me while reading about the Biden administration’s latest step in advancing the president’s 2021 goal of having half of all new autos be electric by 2030.
The analogy isn’t exact — current thinking is that Canute knew his courtiers were wrong when they said he could stop the incoming tide. And the king was apparently in his 30s, with no sign of cognitive impairment, at that moment by the seashore. But consider it anyway.
For all leftists, climate alarmists, and other dwellers in fantasy land, happy Earth Day! Unfortunately for “climate change” true believers, not only have climate predictions been consistently and wildly wrong for 50 years now, but “clean” or “green” energy is toxic for the environment, inefficient, and unprofitable.
Volkswagen AG caused a stir in March when it said it had chosen St. Thomas, Ont., as the location for its first battery plant outside Europe. Decades had passed since Canada had enticed a major new global automaker to build out manufacturing operations here.
But the revelations this week that the federal government had lured VW with subsidies that could reach $13 billion, possibly higher, cast the news in a different light. The subsidy package was carefully calibrated to match what Volkswagen would have received in the United States, but its sheer size has raised questions about the feasibility of building an electric vehicle supply chain in Canada.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his government’s move to spend as much as $13 billion into a new battery plant for auto giant Volkswagen and set the willingness to subsidize green manufacturing as a major difference between his party and the Conservatives.
You know in your heart this will be the Mother of all Boondoggles.
