Not so fast, we have a say in all this “just transition” stuff, says Saskatchewan.
Also, natural resources minister has faith electric tractors are coming. The local Kipling reporter asked about this, and it’s awesome. I wonder where, and when they will charge said tractors? Maybe some booster cables at the nearest power pole in the middle of a field?
One last thing: I’m live on Gormley at 10:06 a.m. Saskatchewan time today
Call it just socialism. Or maybe just more socialism.
yah, socialism – and that includes the starving part as well.
Electric tractors, these people have to be pretty moronic to even state that.
Just imagine a 500 kw extension cord that is 5 miles long, yah that type of stupid. The weight of that alone would need a tractor to move it, while the other tractors does the air seeding, except of course – now you need 2x 500 kw cords, etc, etc.
Or maybe battieries, that would be a 5 MWh battery- just pick one up from Peavey mart I guess. So, that would be a battery weighing over 30,000 kg – yup, that’s right – over 30,000 kg for a battery. Want to charge that, well – you’d need three phase power to have any hope of charging a 5 MWh hour battery in any useful amount of time. How many 5 MW charging stations are there around Montmartre, or Delisle these days…better hope your neighbour isn’t on it when you need it.
Just imagine, 10,000 farmers needing to charge their tractors at 5MW each during seeding…hell, that’s only 50 GW needed. All those city slicker cars will be drained, in the entire provinces of BC, Alta, Sask, and man and still there won’t be enough juice.
Saw this a couple of years ago.
Electric Tractor
That tractor has 10, maybe 12 batteries. They all look like lead-acid, so even if they are 2 KWh each that is only 24 KWh.
The size of electric motor has me guessing it is in the 10-15 hp range, at most.
So, if lucky this 15 hp tractor will work for about 2 hours maximum. That wouldn’t even cut the lawn at my farm.
A whole bunch of words and expensive plans in support of an utter and complete fraud, and everyone continues to go along for the ride instead of calling it out for the treasonous fraud it is.
And selling out our technological, economic and national sovereignty is just that, along with the abolition of our personal rights and freedoms.
But of course no one would agree to any of that if they knew that replacing hydrocarbons while maintaining even a fraction of our current prosperity, is simply not possible.
This link was posted yesterday by PaulHarvey on another thread, which shows the absurdity of the claims of eliminating hydrocarbons.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/03/the-myth-of-replacing-fossil-fuels/
Hydrocarbons will not be replaced. They will however be rationed and controlled – which means rationing and controlling every aspect of our lives. Totalitarian rule.
But hey, carry on in your calculations of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
“I do say, that this will create jobs and economic opportunity, including in the agricultural sector, because you use canola, and soy, and often agricultural residuals to make the products that are going to be driven by this whole thing.”
He’s fos. Why isn’t anyone pressing him on the fantastic economic opportunities that await us? What are they specifically? Please cite examples, cause I’m all ears.
Right up there with the “good paying green jobs” myth. It’s a load of B.S. for stupid people.
His speech the other day was a masterclass of talking out of both sides of his mouth. Believe anything that carpetbagger says at your peril.
So Jonathon Wilkinson believes in unicorn electric tractors? How about the tooth fairy for dental programs?
Marxism, despite all of its protestations to the contrary, is a religion.
And that line about expanding the electric grid is pure bovine excrement. Where are the power plants, John Boy, or the stable elements like nuclear being built as you bluster from your stump? You can’t run a country on wind or solar UNLESS (and this is the stated objective of Agenda 2030) you plan to let people freeze in the dark and die of privation. You and your Liberal ideas are pure evil.
Please remember, Johnnie, what happens to useful idiots, like yourself, when the real fiends take over and you become surplus to requirement – they are all killed by their puppet masters because the willing tool becomes too dangerous to leave laying around, and in the moment of self realization of their error, turn on their wielders.
Wilkinson certainly is as sharp as a dull razor.
Pretty sure electric tractors will work just as well as electric trucks:
https://www.trucking.org/news-insights/heavy-dose-reality-electric-truck-mandates
Drive any major road/highway for an hour and count trucks.
Europe is even more truck dense.
Way to shutdown china!
Build one without mining, coal, oil or gas.
I’m sure John Deere is salivating over the though of electric farm equipment that they can sell to farmers at an electric premium of $300-400k more than the gas tractors, and requires many times more of them to do the same work that the existing tractors can do…
Good point. Like most truck makers are larger than most truck companies.
Well, as Thug Fraud has shown here in Ontario, the pols don’t have to deal with the little people, or even the medium or even the big people sometimes.
No, you go all the way to the super duper big people, and give taxpayer’s money to their family run multi-national companies.
I mean, they don’t care if things don’t work, they get paid regardless. In fact, its better that they don’t work, so they can sell us the fixes.
JD.
Electric Tractors simply WILL NOT sell.
Farmers aint stupid by any stretch of a Socialists imagination….Far Far from it.
Nuts n Bolts guys that Work 14-16 hr days, repairing, fixing & welding up their equipment know full well that EV tractors & Semi’s to haul grain are 100% pie in the sky Liberal BS.
They’ll simply say thanks but no thanks …. now kindly F Off with your abject stupidity.
My short version is to tell the jerk to go pound sand!!!
Gonna hafta drive out to the fields with a grain truck full of electrons to fill up that puppy, hurr-durr..
Time to insist our Turbo Diesels are actually “Electric Vehicles”.
After all without the initial electricity the damn things will not start.
And loss of electric power usually results in the fuel solenoid shutting down..
Given your everyday Liberal is an idiot ..and their “leaders” are Idiots Supreme…they will never know the difference.
These are the people who insist that they “Believe in ‘The Science'”..
A level of idiocy unfathomable to any intelligent being.
And every utterance these critters make,demonstrates they know nothing and that most of what they think they know of technology is utterly backwards and wrong..
So the tractor identifies as electric and we want our rebates and fat subsidies for owning and operating said “Electric Tractor”.
For who is your Grey Zombie Bureaucrat to doubt the Tractor’s self identification?
It told me so,while I was changing its battery.