Green-Scam

The eco-elites are determined to stop us from travelling and earning.

It’s funny to think that The Archers started out in 1950, as a way of ‘educating’ farmers about what the UK government wanted from them in the new postwar Eden. One actor would often read announcements from the Ministry of Agriculture almost verbatim to another. Direct involvement of the government ended in 1972, apparently – but you’d never know it. Because after a couple of decades of being a perfectly good soap opera, like every other serial drama, whether on radio or TV, from the BBC or ITV, The Archers now feels like sitting in a doctor’s waiting room without a book, when you’re forced to plough through public-health pamphlets telling you how to think about everything, from breakfast to Brexit.

Municipal planning documents are typically only of interest to bureaucrats, developers wondering how the city’s going to make their lives more difficult, NIMBYs looking for ways to scuttle development and retirees with too much time on their hands. But a City of Edmonton planning document from a couple years ago has managed to take on a life of its own.

… But the rapid rise in electric vehicle sales is about to bump into some very real limitations, say Jominy and other auto industry insiders.

Flavio Volpe, president of the APMA, points out that roughly a third of the Canadian population lives in multi-family buildings such as apartments or condo buildings, most of which don’t have dedicated charging stations. In downtown areas, even many single-family homes don’t have driveways, Volpe noted.

“You’re not going to be running a cable out to the street to charge your car,” said Volpe.

That kind of basic stumbling block makes Volpe wary of proposed regulations from the federal government which is aiming to have 20 per cent of all new vehicle sales be electric by 2026, and 100 per cent by 2035. The regulations also envision significant fines for auto companies for each non-electric vehicle sold below the target.

Why would Justin make policy on false infrastructure assumptions?

Because they can. You aren’t going to be driving anything.

That’s the goal.

Pretty strange when even the Star is pointing out the flaw in Junior’s Masterplan.

“Buy an electric car You’ll save money.”

During the worst of the gas spike, Biden administration cronies were telling the proles that they’d be saving money if they had bought $65,000 electric cars.

Not so much.

Firms are starting to wake up to the lunacy of Net Zero.

Economist Herbert Stein once said that ‘if something cannot go on forever, it will stop’. Today, there is growing evidence that ‘Stein’s law’ is coming for the renewables industry, particularly for wind and solar power.

After investing billions of dollars into the green-energy transition, many of the major players in the energy sector are now shifting their priorities. The global energy shortages of 2022 seem to have woken much of the world up to just how impractical renewable energy can be.

Experts in geoengineering say sulphur particle launches set dangerous precedent for private companies to interfere with planet’s atmosphere

A Mexico-based startup will next week launch sulphur particles into the stratosphere in a “rogue” move to create a “mini-volcano” effect it says could help cool the planet.

The technique, known as stratospheric aerosol injection, mimics the impact of volcanoes by using a weather balloon to release sulphur, creating a cloud of particles that reflect the sun’s rays and have a cooling impact.

It is one of several geoengineering techniques being studied as a way to cool the planet to avoid breaching internationally agreed limits on global warming.

Non-Californians were treated to an amusing spectacle last summer. In the Gilded State, it wasn’t so funny.

California’s electrical utilities, you may recall, had to beg the state’s residents not to charge their electric vehicles at night because it was putting too much stress on the state’s fragile grid and potentially forcing rolling blackouts. This urgent request came six days after California passed a new regulation banning the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles beginning in 2035.

IN LAST week’s column, I wrote about BP’s warning that the world would still be needing fossil fuels in three decades’ time. The Telegraph reported the claim of their Chief Economist Spencer Dale that the world would still be reliant on fossil fuels for a fifth of its energy in 2050, despite adopting radical climate policies, according to BP’s latest Energy Outlook. 

It turns out this forecast was Alice in Wonderland stuff.

Electric vehicle and hybrid vehicle sales in Germany dropped sharply in January following the expiration of its government subsidy program, illustrating the extent to which consumers depend on the financial incentives.

Electric car sales in Germany fell by 32% in January compared to the same point last year, according to data from German auto association VDA.