Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Elon Musk demonstrated a system like that at a Tesla event a couple of years ago, but I don’t think it ever got past the prototype stage.

 

Apparently that is their product line, period. We'll see.

 

Those'll be fun to store in a landfill.

Drastically reducing consumption - which means a sharp drawdown of globalism - is the only real answer, and it's proven in the NYT story. Nation shuts down because of COVID, emissions go down 7%.

We're not shutting the nation down for 5 years.

If wind and solar were the best energy methods, for goodness sakes, they'd be our primary energy methods. There'd be a shitload of money to make in it - just like natural gas. The technologies have instead been inched along by the government.

 

The best probable option for vehicles is hydrogen fuel-cell technology, with the caveat that we’d have to convert the current petrochemical supply infrastructure to provide hydrogen.

 

I meant majority of new car sales, not cars on the road. I plan to still be driving my 2006 Jeep TJ in 15 years - with antique vehicle tags on it.

 

The bottom line is that most of the manufacturers say that they will be going over to all new vehicle production being electric. That will mean economies of scale and new ways to salvage and recycle parts and batteries. It's coming no matter what our opinion about it is.

I'll drive my Miata until the wheels fall off or my knee gets so bad I don't want to kick the clutch anymore, and that's ok, but change is coming.

 

What's the difference between governments (which of course are nothing but the collective "us") subsidizing EVs in the 21st Century and the government subsidizing combustion engine transportation by paving roads at the turn of the 20th Century and onwards?

 

You can find someone? It's the movement. It's shuffled through a variety of approaches on how to convince people - Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, Celebrities like Leo DiCaprio doing docs and driving electric cars, certain politicians doomily intoning the end of the world, trotting Greta Thunberg onto the world stage as a pawn, pivoting to the phrase "climate justice..." that's the movement. It's like saying - on an unrelated topic - we arrived at skyrocketing incarceration numbers in America through a random series of someones vs. ALEC writing a bunch of bills to be used in state legislatures. It's not framed narratives; it's what it is.

When Michael Moore, hero of the left, makes a doc last year blasting renewables, he wasn't arguing climate change wasn't real - he was arguing that the "solutions" weren't really solutions. Moore often overdoes his conclusions, but it's not like there wasn't anything to them. YouTube took the doc down and every green energy blog on the planet flipped out.

It's not a framed narrative any more than "yes, Alden really is stripping newspapers to the bone for reasons unrelated to creating quality journalism" is a framed narrative. But, we can disagree.

I agree with all of this.

 

I feel like people on the right overrate the influence of Greta Thunberg in roughly equal proportion to the way people on the left overrate the influence of Franklin Graham.

 

Well, to be frank, I'm guessing the market was clamoring for 20th Century change.

We already know no one's clamoring for the second.