Post by
Donwaan on Apr 08, 2024 2:33pm
MarketWatch commenters add to the great debate
Good luck with getting Canadians to ditch their gas guzzlers. Subsidies for EV's aren't the answer as governments have no money. Rather than increasing our debt, it is more efficient to institute a carbon tax. This will reduce fossil fuel use and make carbon free energy sources more desirable. The extra revenues could reduce our deficit and make it possible to lower business taxes, increasing Cdn profitability and competitiveness. As near as has been able to be calculated, the total CO2 utilization of an EV, over its entire lifetime, is about 1/2 that of a comparable ICE vehicle. (This is hard to calculate precisely because so few EVs have actually reached the end of their useful 'lives', and there are so many variables that need to be included. For example, natural gas used to create electric power is shipped in very efficient pipelines, and the electricity created sent to EVs is transmitted via electric power lines whose loss is around 6%, while gasoline comes from oil shipped in VLCC ships, and is sent to gas stations via semi-trucks in a less efficient process.) GLTA!
Comment by
mrbb on Apr 08, 2024 3:35pm
i say not buying an EV make the best environmental case. keep your ICE and maintain it as long as possible, because common sense people knows that is the best energy efficient option. Just 1 more year of madness to endure, when PP and Trump come onboard, i will re-open my salt extraction facility to process all the leftist tears.
Comment by
Donwaan on Apr 08, 2024 7:39pm
Maintain your ICE as long as possible. That's exactly what I am doing mrbb except my car is a Hybrid with 406,000 kms on it. Glad to see we agree on something! ;-)
Comment by
mrbb on Apr 08, 2024 9:29pm
Good luck with getting Canadians to ditch their gas guzzlers.
Comment by
mrbb on Apr 08, 2024 9:30pm
all thanks to ICE technology