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Australian Bank To End Loans For New Gas Cars, Pushes Electric Vehicles Instead
“By ceasing car loans for new fossil fuel vehicles, we are sending a signal to the Australian market about the rapid acceleration in the transition from internal combustion to electric vehicles we expect to see in the next few years,” Bank Australia Chief Impact Officer Sasha Courville said at a recent summit, according to a press release. “We’ve chosen 2025 because the change to electric vehicles needs to happen quickly, and we believe it can with the right supporting policies in place to bring a greater range of more affordable electric vehicles to Australia.”
Noting that many consumers are not yet able to afford an electric car, Courville specified that Bank Australia would “continue to offer loans for second hand fossil fuel vehicles until there is a viable and thriving market for electric vehicles.”
Roughly 7% of Australia’s total energy consumption came from renewable sources as of 2019 and 2020, according to data from the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Beyond renewables, oil, coal, and gas respectively account for 37%, 28%, and 27% of energy use. Australian policymakers, including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, have endorsed higher rates of electric vehicle adoption, with the Labor Party vowing earlier this year to construct a national network of charging stations.
Energy Sec. Granholm: Families Should Use EV Tax Credits, Weatherize Their Homes, Finance Solar Panels To Cope With Inflation
“So if you are low income, you can get your home entirely weatherized through the expansion from the bipartisan infrastructure law,” she continued. “If you want heat pumps, insulation, new windows, that is covered. If you are moderate income, today, you can get 30% off the price of solar panels. Those solar panels can be financed, so you don’t have to have the big outlay up front.”
“When they’re financed, they’re financed in a way that reduces your energy bill even though you have solar panels, with this 30% off. It’s a significant incentive. Same thing if you don’t qualify for the weatherization program, you will be able to, starting next year, get rebates on the appliances and equipment that will help you reduce your monthly energy bill by up to 30%. This is all about reducing costs for people.”
So totally out of touch and unrealistic.Bare-ya-cuda
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It really wouldn’t surprise me one bit if lending institutions started this in the U.S.
The Biggest Obstacle To Building Offshore Wind Farms Is Government
But the biggest impediment to the federal government's attempted development of offshore wind is, it turns out, the federal government.
According to DOE data published this month, the U.S. currently has offshore wind projects capable of generating 42 megawatts (MW) of electricity. Offshore wind projects currently under construction will eventually provide another 932 MW of electricity when fully operational. (For comparison's sake, an average-sized nuclear power plant can generate around 1 gigawatt of electricity—equal to 1,000 megawatts.)
But another 18,581 MW of potential offshore wind power are tied up in permitting battles. According to the DOE's data, that means a developer has signed a lease for the designated area but is still trying to complete environmental impact statements required by the federal government and the appropriate state authorities (for projects based in state-controlled waters).
Department of Energy (https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2022-08/offshore_wind_market_report_2022.pdf)As with housing and other types of infrastructure projects, the permitting process provides an opportunity for various parties to slow or even stop construction. Even though the Biden administration has said it intends to speed up the federal permitting process for offshore wind projects, it's questionable whether that is happening. In July, for example, the DOE's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management canceled two potential wind energy developments off the coast of Long Island due to concerns that included "visibility from nearby beaches."
19 State AGs Warn BlackRock to Stop Pushing Political Agenda
Investigations and further legislative action may be next, state officials involved told The Epoch Times.
“Our state is heavily invested in organizations like BlackRock, and those organizations owe a fiduciary duty to the state of Montana to invest our money in the best way possible to earn returns,” Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said in a phone interview. “That doesn’t include pushing a liberal agenda.”
Saying that the company and its allies had failed to convince legislatures to back its ideas, Knudsen blasted what he argued was the company’s effort to impose “idealistic, green, utopian, progressive ideas” on Americans through economic pressure instead.
“I think companies like this are really teetering on the edge of being in violation of their fiduciary obligations,” added Knudsen, saying investigations and action by the legislature would be the next steps.
Boston seeks to ban fossil fuels in new buildings
That legislation, which is meant to bring the state closer to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, calls for a pilot project allowing 10 Massachusetts cities and towns to require new building projects be all-electric, with the exception of life sciences labs and health care facilities.
Wu said the city will file a home rule petition with the state Legislature to join the pilot.
“Boston must lead by taking every possible step for climate action,” she said in a statement. “Boston’s participation will help deliver healthy, energy efficient spaces that save our residents and businesses on utilities costs and create local green jobs that will fuel our economy for decades.”
Wu’s office said natural gas, oil and other fossil fuels used in buildings represent more than one-third of the city’s greenhouse gas emissions.
New York, Washington, D.C. and Seattle are among the major U.S. cities that have enacted similar bans, The Boston Globe reports.
The U.S. Is Asking the USPS to Please Stop Buying Gas-Powered Mail Trucks
The AGs are now asking the USPS to redo its analysis of the update plan. But this time, the coalition of states says the USPS should pay “greater attention to environmental justice and addressing the climate crisis.”
In April, the USPS was sued by 16 U.S. states and four environmental groups along with the United Auto Workers Union for awarding Oshkosh Defense a contract worth $2.98 billion. The lawsuit argues the contract used an illegal environmental analysis and was rushed in order to give Oshkosh priority. Reuters notes the lawsuit went as far as claiming a complete environmental review was not actually finished for the USPS-Oshkosh deal.
The Attorney General of California Rob Bonta says the Oshkosh contract relies too much on outdated technology. And after the lawsuit challenged the legality of the Oshkosh deal, the USPS said it would buy more EVs. As of last month, the USPS said it would buy at least 25,000 EVs in the initial order of 50,000 new delivery vehicles from Oshkosh — up from about 10,000. But the Oshkosh deal is for 165,000 new mail trucks, or NGDVs, over a ten-year period.
That gives the USPS plenty of time to ramp up the percentage of EVs included in follow-up orders. And now that the Biden administration is expected to give the USPS another $3 billion dollars specifically to buy EVs and expand its own charging network, there’s not much stopping the USPS from following through with a new eco-friendly fleet. Municipal fleets and mail trucks with fixed routes would easily benefit from EV technology.
Doomsday climate disaster mongers Gore and Biden
All this punctuated with fire and brimstone preaching by a washed-up, fat, moralizing failed politician. Script-writers in Hollywood and internet scammers could not think up a more fantastical fraud.
The only problem is when it comes time to cash all those checks Mr. Gore predicted.
2012 came and went. The sun still rises and sets.
2015. Birds still chirp when you open the windows.
In 2018, clean spring rains still bring healing fresh air.
2021, and the seas still ebb and flow pretty much as they have for all of recorded time.
The only thing going extinct these days are the predictions from Mr. Gore and his fellow ministers of doom. As the kids say: “Awkward!”
Luckily for Mr. Gore, however, he spent enough time as a politician to be immune from shame.
Meanwhile, things aren’t going so well for the rest of the purveyors of Mr. Gore’s dark religion.
President Biden got into the White House, and apparently nobody told him that the whole lunatic green “inconvenient truth” agenda was a scam designed to shake down industrial corporations and make people like Mr. Gore fabulously corpulent.
Majority of new federal climate funds in Pennsylvania going to repave parking lots
The USDA Rural Development program provides taxpayer money for all sorts of programs, from infrastructure to health care to environmental and economic concerns in the rural parts of America. In fiscal year 2022, it provided almost $1.5 billion for local projects.
Its latest announcement noted 16 projects in Pennsylvania, but the lion’s share of the funding will go to four parking lots in Bloomsburg.
“These 16 projects represent Pennsylvania’s diverse rural economy and will strengthen its resilience,” USDA State Director Bob Morgan said in a news release. “The Biden-Harris Administration has created a roadmap for how we can tackle the climate crisis and expand access to renewable energy infrastructure.”
That roadmap has a strong emphasis on cars.
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That's been said repeatedly for quite a while now. Falling on deaf ears.
For years, liberal states in New England opposed gas pipelines in the name of combatting climate change, yet now that ideological opposition is coming back to haunt them as the region faces a fuel shortage months before cold weather even starts.
The Department of Energy recently sent New England governors a letter begging them to increase fuel inventories through all legal measures ahead of winter. According to the data, fuel inventories in the region are running well below average. Now, the region is serving as a cautionary tale for all who seek to abandon fossil fuels.
“Years of policy choices to limit pipeline infrastructure means New England must rely more heavily on oil and gas reserves and imports,” Heritage Foundation’s Research Fellow at the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment Katie Tubb told The Daily Wire.
The Department of Energy recently sent New England governors a letter begging them to increase fuel inventories through all legal measures ahead of winter. According to the data, fuel inventories in the region are running well below average. Now, the region is serving as a cautionary tale for all who seek to abandon fossil fuels.
“Years of policy choices to limit pipeline infrastructure means New England must rely more heavily on oil and gas reserves and imports,” Heritage Foundation’s Research Fellow at the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment Katie Tubb told The Daily Wire.
‘Back To The Dark Ages’
“Demand for firewood in Germany has risen so fast that there is none left to buy. You can’t get it. So desperate Germans are now cutting their own wood — scouring the forests like their ancestors for sources of heat,” Carlson described. “In Poland, families are standing in line for days to buy coal… Cars queued up outside of coal mines looking for fuel.”
Various European countries have begun introducing quotas to conserve energy ahead of the winter months. Spain’s legislature recently mandated that public air conditioning can be set no lower than 27 degrees Celsius — 80.6 degrees Fahrenheit — while stores and public buildings must turn off their lights by 10:00 pm.
Carlson also highlighted a warning former President Donald Trump delivered to German diplomats about their energy future at the United Nations four years ago. After Trump predicted that Germany would be “totally dependent” on Russian energy imports “if it does not immediately change course,” the German officials snickered.
“They’re not laughing anymore,” Carlson observed. “The Europeans have discovered that the real threat to human civilization is not global warming — it never was global warming. The real threat to people is global cooling — otherwise known as winter.”
SamSpade
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I've read many articles recently in lieu of the gas shortages around the world and felt especially in Europe - replacement of fossil fuels by green energy is many years off, and willing it to be so is a straight line to chaos. And this even mentioned by strong proponents of green energy.
It's just not here yet, and until we have a cleaner means of MAKING electricity, especially on the order of a world running on EVs - AND a completely different battery technology that doesn't depend on elements and ores hard to find on Earth - it's not going to happen.
Seems to me the best way to transition to green energy is not to rip off the band-aid, but to find ways to clean the dirty energy we're using.
It's just not here yet, and until we have a cleaner means of MAKING electricity, especially on the order of a world running on EVs - AND a completely different battery technology that doesn't depend on elements and ores hard to find on Earth - it's not going to happen.
Seems to me the best way to transition to green energy is not to rip off the band-aid, but to find ways to clean the dirty energy we're using.
AFAIK they have been cleaning up Coal Plants with filters / scrubbers ..
The heating issue is going to be such a problem this winter with the Russian Gas Cut off ... Germany is looking to restart some coal plants
SamSpade
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I haven't seen enough - support - in the press for coal plant scrubbers. I do think they are easily the best short term solution.
Germany is the country that will most suffer from this - I've already seen that Berlin is mostly dark at night, conserving energy - and it's still August (barely). They bragged so much about transitions to green energy, but still getting gas from Russia - and in the midst of getting a SECOND pipeline completed just prior to the war.
Speaking of which - I have to stop reading Russian forums. They're driving me crazy. I expected to hear how corrupt Ukraine is, and how everything the Western press says is all lies. I think just a while back though was the admonition that NATO has become a source of war and warmongering and how they provoked all of this. Really? 6-7 MONTHS of obliterating Ukraine, in a fashion reminiscent of the remark in Vietnam about how they had to destroy a whole village to save it. Another was how they might have prevented the conflict had they not kept opening membership to nations closer and closer to Russia. HELLO? NATO was *formed* to prevent what's happening in Ukraine. And they PROVE NATO's case when they do it.