No plan, no budget and a ridiculous timeline. Now you go out and make it happen.
Blacklock’s- 6% Down, 94% To Go: Report
Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson’s department to date has subsidized about six percent of the charging ports it predicts Canada needs to comply with electric vehicle mandates. Budgeted costs so far are $1.2 billion.
Federal taxpayers alone could not be expected to meet the cost, wrote Wilkinson. “This demand must be met through investment from all levels of governments and private companies, utilities and other organizations,” it said.
It gets better.
Neither the natural resources department nor any other branch of the federal government to date has calculated the total cost of the electric car mandate including rebates and subsidies.
There’s not enough minerals for the mandate. Just anecdotal, but many of my relatives worked for Inco in Sudbury. I have an uncle who worked underground as a miner until 2 years ago and the age of 74, (he waited for one older guy to retire so he could be #1 on the seniority list). When my uncle first started, he would walk onto an elevator for a short trip underground, drill a few holes for dynamite, leave while they set it off, and return to gather up the ore. Towards the end, he said it took hours to just get to where they were mining, they had to go so deep. Mega millions spent on cooling systems, it’s so hot down there. He sat in a fully automated control room for a couple of hours, then started his way back up. And the ratio of nickel to rock has gotten steadily worse.
One of those deep mineshafts is now SNOLAB, the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. It is 2km deep and used to study neutrinos and “dark matter” interactions among other kinds of science. It is a hugely expensive project, funded by taxpayers across Canada, via research funding councils, universities, and provincial/federal governments. As I said, funded by taxpayers, but researchers get to play.
That would be Creighton. They are mining below 7,000 feet. In 1994 Falconbridge discovered the Onaping Depth deposit. Thirty years later they are finally sinking a shaft to mine one of the last “recent” discoveries made in Sudbury. I hear it’s behind schedule and over budget. They used to mine 40,000 tonnes per day at Inco. They are down to 17,000 +/-. The smelter at Thompson has shut down. The Ovoid at Voiseys Bay is mined out. The Ring of Fire was discovered in 2007 and still isn’t in production – may never be mined because of FN and infrastructure issues.
Await until push comes to shove.
Of course it hasn’t been costed. And it really doesn’t matter. This program will never be fully implemented except for some token photo ops. It’s about shoring up their environmentalist liberal voting support. If it’s just photo-op BS, then costing is irrelevant. It’s just a Potemkin Village.
None of this will ever happen because they will all be out of office and out of Parliament Hill after at most another year has gone by.
Yes, but I dubt the the globalist impoverishment scheme will be; expect to see it carried on by the PCs under a different name, but same result.
You all know where I am going with this, but I am patiemt.
Charging stations will become like gas stations in the Soviet Union: few and far between. That’s what happens with mandates and centrally planned systems.
Not quite. They collapse and disappear. The Soviet Union no longer exists. China discarded Maoism in the 1970s. Fidel Castro’s regime in Cuba has largely disappeared without trace. Vietnam has nothing remaining of its communist origins: Ho Chi Minh and Ngyen Giap are all long dead.
Cuba’s system is still limping along, but the future for Castro’s legacy is not bright.
Only as remnants but you are right. Castro’s dead, the psychotic murderer Guevara was executed in 1967, the island’s Stalinist government is mostly a thing of the past. They no longer have a paymaster to hire them out as Soviet mercenaries. Their economy collapsed with the fall of the Soviet Union.
China discarded Maoism in the ’70s; in the ’80s, it adopted Fascism.
There’s a chance the #Libranos will have to stand in line during question period in the HoC to ask questions after the others have exhausted their time, as the #Libranos will have lost official party status.
So it’ll be up to the Conservatives to answer these questions while the #Libranos evade any real answers for the where the wasted $billions were squandered
Why build charging stations when thieves will steal the copper wiring?
Why build charging stations when so few want them.
“If it saves just one life…” Now ask yourself if you would prefer being rear-ended by a mundane four-door sedan equipped with a gasoline engine, or a similar vehicle outfitted with a 2,000 pound battery.
And plenty of Librano connected startups will make out like bandits, then in short order, file for bankruptcy, the original taxpayers investments safely secured in the Caymens. Left wing city council members clear across the country will be clamoring to hold one of the freshly spray painted shovels, mugging for the photo-op at the groundbreaking ceremonies. The script writes itself, like a Harlequin Christmas movie.
“Neither the natural resources department nor any other branch of the federal government to date has calculated the total cost of the electric car mandate including rebates and subsidies.”
That’s because they don’t care how much it costs. They aren’t serious about electric cars, or windmills, or solar.
This is all for an excuse to take YOUR car. They don’t want you driving around, it interferes with their plans. Also they want to steal the money that’s supposed to be building charging stations. That’s a big part of it.
I am Robert of Ottawa, and I approve this message.
“This demand must be met through investment from all levels of governments and private companies, utilities and other organizations,”
It ALL comes out of the same wallets, yours and mine……….the working people, what’s left of us.
Central planning is always bad, even when it isn’t driven by idiot Jacobins.
Khmer Rouge
Note to RCMP, no this is not your dress uniform.
These Liberal extremists are only talking to their extremist base. They think the end of the world us nigh unless we abandon our heathen ways.
The greentards of Victoria thinks this way, despite the reality that the rest of the world carries on as always.
Canada could end hydrocarbon use tomorrow, and it would change NOTHING despite the greentards protests, except kill millions from starvation and hypothermia.
They want us dead.
They could have done it right …
Limit EVs to the big cities and offer free charging stations. Instead of giving money to new battery plants, reduce the timeline to permit a mine and then build the plants once the minerals are available. Make it illegal to own a Ford F150 Lightning by limiting EV batteries to 35 kW and EVs to 1,500 kg. Leave the rural people alone. Keep your paws off the oil & gas industry. Tax critical minerals (or what is made from them – steel) coming into the country where there are no environmental standards.
But they did just the opposite. At every turn.
A remarkable and commendable proposal, sir. Now ask yourself how many government bureaucrats are capable of even comprehending it. At present I believe it takes 15 years to get a new mine permitted in the US, if it is even possible.
This is just the cost of charging ports. How about the additional cost of the electricity generating stations?
I posted an article yesterday that mentioned the projected need for 1,000 km of new power lines to achieve “Net Zero” in the relatively small UK. Ideologues will gladly burn down half the planet, in order to save the other half.
Found it…
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/11/03/1000-km-of-pylons-needed-to-hit-net-zero-targets/
Even the 6% down is not a investment.. Its failing as we speak.. As planned by the GRIFTERS..
Memo to all thinking people.
Chargers cannot be manufactured without coal, oil and gas.
Power lines cannot be manufactured without coal, oil and gas.
It is tiresome to keep explaining why EVs are a farce but someone has to do it.
Agree with Davis at 3:08 pm, Natural Resources Minister (and obvious moron) says the remaining 94% must be paid by governments since taxpayers can’t afford it.