Liberal environment minister Steven Guilbeault said in a recent interview that he hopes to phase out fossil fuels within two years.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Guilbeault made the comments to the left-wing outlet The Narwhal, which receives taxpayer funds from the federal government.
“My timeline is two years,” Guilbeault said. “So in the next two years, more stringent methane regulations, zero-emission vehicle standards, net-zero grid by 2035, cap on oil and gas and obviously phasing out fossil fuels – all of these things must be in place in the coming eighteen months.”
“I mean, maybe 2024, but that’s the type of time frame we have to work with and it’s going to be tough because on the one hand some people are going to criticize us for not giving them enough time to be consulted, but the state of climate change is such that we need to learn to do things faster and that’s certainly true of us as a government,” Guilbeault added.
Related: “Did you know that you can now drive coast-to-coast from Victoria, B.C. to St. John’s, Nfld. in an electric vehicle?”
I can just see the thinking of gas tax replaced with distance tax.
Gee, I’m so sorry, Mr Distance tax collector. Good observation! That odometer did, in fact, take a bullet this summer, while passing through downtown Calgary. Nope, no other damage, I was lucky. Why, yes, now that you ask, the exact same thing did happen to the other two vehicles. And the Hawg. Akshually, I suspect they were anti-vaxxers. Bad element up there. No, I have no idea how many miles I traveled this year…
Looks like these liberals are all morons.
It’s a chicken/egg relationship – I thought all morons were liberals.
East Coast to West Coast…hmm. Minimum of what..?? 3-4 stops a day to recharge..? I’m guessing at least 12+ days to do so. May as well ride a horse…
As for that POS Guillbault…he still belongs in an Orange jump suit.
These morons seem to think electricity grows on wires.
They think the sun always shines and the wind always blows, so solar & wind will power us forevermore. Also, they’re heavily influenced by Quebec, which is blessed with ample hydroelectric generation, so they think switching to 100% renewable really is possible.
They’re stupendously ignorant of course, but you could say that about a majority of Canadians.
Nah. Electricity is mould. After all, mould grows inside walls, electricity comes out of walls, therefore mould is electricity.
the logic that only a liberal/dipper would believe
Righto…. e=mw
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All of these people really need to end up like Mussolini, hanging upside down from a gas station canopy. The irony!
hanging upside down from a gas station canopy
Ok, that’s a good one. A nice refinement on my “hanging upside from a lamppost” trope. Might I add “and beaten to a bloody pulp with gas hoses”?
Guilbeault deserves an enema flush with a gas pump. Let him impose his stupidity on Montreal & Quebec first. They elected the moron. They need to pay for it.
This must be the way that they force Ontario to take Quebec’s hydro electric that the US states don’t want.
It’s interesting that oil & gas is [considered] a resource but electricity is not. On the one hand the Federal Government could force the provinces off fossil fuel and onto electricity, thereby benefiting Quebec. On the other hand the Fed would lose its transfer payments from the formerly rich, resource-rich provinces. The tab would revert mostly to Ontario and Quebec.
No, at that point, they would simply scrap the transfer payment scheme and watch the west die, while upper and lower Canada carries on.
The west is dying because of the transfer payment scheme.
It won’t perish completely. After all, what parasite wants to kill a productive host?
I guess you are unaware that Quebec made a deal with the Federal Government that it’s hydro electric revenues would not be counted for the purposes of equalization? for some reason, the government wasn’t willing to allow Alberta to remove it’s Oil and Gas revenues in the same way
Yes, something I forgot about when I commented above. If the entire North American continent was powered by Quebec hydro electricity, we would still owe them transfer payments….
Quebec made a deal with the Federal Government
La belle province, she makes lots of dose kinds of deals.
Isn’t Quebec hydro also exempt from carbon dioxide emission tax?
I was aware. I have no idea how Quebec got a pass (well I do know) but at some point, when we’re all running on electricity and not on fossil fuels, how will the Feds screw Alberta then?
Green technologies are not yet ready for prime- time. and probably won’t be for decades and decades, if ever. Solar and wind power, EV’s, autonomous vehicles, all pie in the sky promises to fool the ignorant eco-justice warriors into cheering the ‘elites’ on. Gullible idiots.
Maybe most maddening, in two years when Guilbeault will look the absolute fool for even thinking this was possible, Canadian media will hide this idiocy and protect their team guy.
I disagree and I disagree. EVs are not pie-in-the-sky. Over-hyped and not yet ready for prime-time, yes. But they are coming. They solve a big problem – local air pollution in congested cities. Do not under-estimate the advances being made in EV batteries. Imagine what the horse owners thought when they first saw the automobile.
Guilbeault will not look like a fool because he will judged by a country full of idiots. You would have to change the make-up of Canada to make Guilbeault look like the fool he is. This isn’t happening. If you want to grade how foolish Canada is as a nation look at how Quebec is taxing the unvaccinated on one hand, and how Canada is allowing Canadian truckers to remain unvaccinated on the other.
It would be easy for someone to step forward and say they want to lead the country and upgrade our existing infrastructure without fossil fuels so that it can support our energy use, before we ban fossil fuels. “This will take decades but we will start now” yada yada. Unfortunately such a person could never get elected.
The problem with Canadians is our expectations are far higher than our contributions. We want universal basic income without higher taxes. We want electric cars without paying the higher electricity rate needed to support upgrading the electrical grid. We are all want and no pay.
I don’t know where to begin…
I’d like to have the environmental minister explain the following:
where is the power going to come from to power 23 million battery electric vehicles?
where are the materials going to come from to build 23 million battery packs? lithium, cobalt and other rare earths
what steps is he taking to upgrade the power grid to handle the new demand that 23 million vehicle will place on it?
how does he plan to fund this transition?
I’m sure the answer to all of those is “we have a mandate!”
It will build itself
“we have a mandate!”
That’s what Prinz Dummkopf is thinking with his lustful look at Stevie.
If they have a mandate, its not from consumers. Most don’t want an electric cars, and the auto companies that have plans to rapidly convert to production solely of electric vehicles are headed right off a cliff. Pushing a rope up a hill never works.
That wasn’t the sort of mandate I was referring to, if you know what I mean.
Looks like Montreal ran out of big man’s pants.
“Fossil” Fuels. Can we at least get an environment minister who can get past that inaccurate terminology? Geez.
Anything is possible if you’re a communist zealot who is economically, scientifically, and mathematically illiterate.
And yeah, I know I just described the entire liberal caucus.
I don’t know why this worries anybody. Our glorious leaders also know that any shortage issue can be fixed simply by raising the minimum wage to $50/hr and imposing price caps on all goods and services. That way, everybody will have lots of money to buy cheap goods and services!
Saving the planet and ensuring lots of EVs and electricity for everybody! Utopia 2024!
Two dollar gas spotted in Vancouver.
https://twitter.com/LeonardRoxon/status/1481494839581720581
Good! Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of virtue signallers.
So they got why they wanted. Why aren’t they rejoicing and dancing in the streets? Oh, yeah, it makes their skiing getaways at Whistler or Mt. Seymour that much more expensive…..
Two years? Good thing I’m going out to water my Pixie Dust trees this morning, we’re going to need them. Oops, water was frozen..now what?
“Oops, water was frozen..now what?”
Damn that Globull Warming!
Know the enemy. This is the article in question and, just like the CBC, it is evidence of how the Liberal establishment has crafted its own, taxpayer subsidized, echo chambers to authenticate its chosen messages and messengers:
https://thenarwhal.ca/federal-environment-minister-steven-guilbeault/
This segues into Rex Murphy’s latest; a government dominated by those who see their presence as the power to do things by fiat, without any thought of consequences or accountability. The Liberal so-called party is complicit in this, but It has been obvious since he rose to power that Trudeau only sees the party as a vehicle for an agenda that has nothing to do with being “liberal”, and is only the agenda of the clique of radical insiders.
“Sure, Jan!”
Guilbeault is dillusional and shouldn’t have any decision-making authority.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that fossil fuels “will continue to make a major contribution to the global energy mix through to 2050.”
Bjorn Lomborg, using the IPCC’s “SSP2” scenario, forecasts that fossil fuels will still fulfill 75 percent of the world’s energy requirements even in 2100.
https://c2cjournal.ca/2022/01/divestment-wont-stop-fossil-fuels-nor-should-it/
See the charts in my essay here:
In fairness, the Narwahl article quotes him as saying ending fossil fuel subsidies in two years.
We accuse the leftists of distorting the truth to fit their narrative, and they do. Let’s not do the same.
All that time in Drama Class has divorced them from reality.
They live in a world of make believe and are isolated from the consequences of their own decisions by their regular government pay check.
Completely cut off from the real world. Liberals exist in a vacuum where they can say all the stupid stuff they want and never get blowback from the mainstream media. They are inherently dishonest because nobody ever calls them on anything.
Is the federal government going to buy me an electric car and electric furnace? Let’s run the debt up to the tens of trillions and really get this done right. Everyone gets new electric sh*t.
God I love it when the government takes control of the economy like this. It always turns out so well.
Let’s have that SOB do it. Right now. Cross Canada from East to West in an electric car, this winter. Let’s give him a CAA card and a cell phone and a CBC reporter as a passenger.
I’d go long on candles.
the only thjing that should be phased out in 2 years is the liberal party of Canada, If this does not happen this country is finished.
Like his not-too-distant forefathers, Guilbeault is – beneath his too-fashionable-for Bay Street suit and air of press-on modernity (of which he is so very proud) – only two or three generations removed from one of the most servile, docile, devout, unquestioning, quietist groups of people ever to inhabit the earth since the Dark Ages. He still believes in saints, miracles and “magic”, although he has thrown out his Clericalism and replaced it with the new secular God of the social welfare state, as we can clearly see from his pronouncements.
I re-watched Life Of Brian the other day. Hilarious.
John Cleese: “the world is a madhouse, and most people live in fantasy”.
And EV’s are supposed to be sold 1:1 with ICE vehicles by 2030. Many will read this and think about how manufacturers will make that many EV’s and how many consumers would want them, that’s the wrong way around. EV’s will have the same low uptake, you simply won’t be able to buy an ICE vehicle.
If you have some extra space in your driveway and some extra cash, buy a vehicle or two and stash them.
That is exactly what I’ve been thinking. Consumers don’t want electric cars.
Insanity at the highest levels of government. Electric powered vehicles can never replace the internal combustion engine as long as the energy source comes from batteries. “If you build it, they will come” is a pipedream that Guilbeault and the other delusional idiots who think this way, believe that kickstarting this into action will bring about the change they desire.
All they will accomplish is hurt the economy, alienate the west even further and make millions suffer, with the most disadvantaged in society bearing the brunt.
As I have stated before, this is criminal. Its too bad that for the average citizen of the West, until they are starving, will they finally take notice of that jackboot on their neck.
Until batteries have a comparable energy density and a comparable power transfer rate to gasoline, I don’t see ICE engines disappearing.
Energy density is only part of the equation. Another is cost. To fully charge a Tesla costs about $20. Mercedes is developing a car with a 1,200 km range, due out in 2023. ICE engines will start to disappear by the end of this decade. Of course, other problems will appear, such as we can’t charge all those EVs so many people will be diverted to mass transit.
He expects to eliminate fossil fuels in two years? Natural gas to heat homes, all gone? The 25 million cars and trucks on the road will suddenly be declared obsolete by goverment declaration, and will be replaced by what? As will public transit buses? And trains? Fossil fuel based power plants, all shuttered?
This is called “laying the groundwork.”
I bet it comes right outta Klaus’ book “The Great Reset”.
Kenney, for all his disappointments, called it right on this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ9-wAReUlA
They are actively trying to kill Canadians so it may be possible to end use of fossil fuels.
Why doesn’t Steven Goebbels walk everywhere?
Why are we still part of this Idiocracy?
Steve From Rockwood.
Golf carts would fill the Urban need,retirement communities have been doing that for years.
Mandates from Government?
Will create even more chaos and probably destroy any future electric cars ever had.
The reason you cannot use a golfcart to do short urban commutes?
Regulation.
Rules and regulation .
Road safety, honest.
Back in the 80s or 90s an Montreal Business man was converting Renault Dauphines
to electric propulsion.
MOT made sure he could not win.
Guess he shoulda joined the Liberal Party First.
Electric Cars lost to Steam…think about that.
What would be the market for electric,without government force tipping the scale?