24 Replies to “Square Peg, Round Hole”

  1. “so the companies will make cars for the customers.” (in the US)

    What a novel idea!

    I was going to put my name on that 12 year waiting list for a Trabant, but maybe I’ll just buy in the US.

    1. Phil: “I was going to put my name on that 12 year waiting list for a Trabant, […]”

      Okay. That made me laugh!

  2. Blackie shows awsome econonmic insight like there is no business case for LNG. An intellectual beyond comparison. A legend in his own mind.

  3. It doesn’t end with batteries. Why do you think Ford called an election, he knows when the dust settles the Canadian auto sector will be destroyed. Michigan voted for Trump twice and probably a third time, and they need to be paid back.

  4. Wait. What? What did I just read? That America’s lifting of an EV mandate is “bad” for Canada’s EV marketplace?

    How does THAT make any sense? When my competitor STOPS making the product I make … doesn’t that immediately EXPAND my market share? Isn’t that a GOOD thing for Canada’s EV marketplace ? Isn’t demand for EV’s going straight UP! Aren’t people queued-up in long wait lists just for the honor of purchasing an EV? Aren’t they wildly popular with the kids, what with their giant touch screens and whatnot?

    Or … everything we’ve been told about EV’s are lies. They have saturated their true-believer market … and there is NO market beyond the virtue-signaling “progressive” crowd. The only way the EV market expands is if the government MANDATES it. Fascism.

  5. Will you look at that! Fat Man and Little Boy. Leaving an atomic-level wasteland behind them.

  6. also l take MAJOR issuw with the recurring phrase regarding EVs, ‘expectations’.
    in reality l do think the correct term is HOPED. the lieberals and proponents HOPE
    a market will form, HOPE the question of the core issue of battery resilience, ALL technical issues they HOPE will be miraculously solved in time for that spanking new market that came out of more HOPE.
    how so? SHOW US the numbers these ‘expectations’ are based on.
    publish and explain the ‘expectations’ conclusions. spell. it. all. out.

    that has yet to be done afaic. isnt that *kinda* important since EVERYTHING ELSE at that point hinges on the ubiquitous invisible hand market?
    anything else borders on communism.

  7. The US pulled out of the Paris Accord. The Turd will make Kanada take up the slack.

    We wouldn’t be in this mess if it weren’t for Lieberal supporters.

  8. Hans Grueber is pushing this crap. He doesn’t care if the country goes to hell doing it.

    1. I clench every time I have to fly through Montreal, just so I can take a crunch at P.E.T airport, tell myself its crapping on him.

  9. The bureaucrats and politicians that promoted and spent the $52 billion that the government didn’t have, which at best would take 30 years to recover (but like most government programs, it will never be recovered) should be charged against the bureaucrats and politicians responsible as an Odious Debt.

    But they will never pay a price for it.

  10. “Sun- Trudeau government seems intent on pushing ahead with 2035 EV mandates”

    – Of course they are. It’s been said many times – Communists:

    – ALWAYS lie;
    – ALWAYS project; and
    – ALWAYS double-down.

  11. I thought “Square Peg, Round Hole” was what the mean girls called Margaret Atwood in high school?

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