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Yes we are. But there are plenty that seem to think goals shouldn't be set until answers already exist. As if JFK shouldn't have set a target for going to the Moon because at the time it wasn't possible. Imagine if our world worked that way? Nothing would get done. I suspect the motives are simply that letting go of fossil fuels seems like a defeat of some kind to these people.

Yesterday's solutions don't solve tomorrow's problems. I honestly don't know why anyone in the market for a car right now wouldn't consider at least a Hybrid option. It saves money on ware and tear and gas. Moving towards an EV only future also assumes we've moved to a Green Energy future which assumes that storing electricity becomes do-able, which is not the case now. Solid State Batteries that don't require thousands of cells will be the norm in the future. I didn't buy an EV because I expect it to save the world. I bought it because I knew I had a regular commute of 90 kms and I didn't want to be a slave to Carbon Taxes and Gas Price swings caused by Geo political issues and Hurricanes in the Gulf. It's remarkably freeing being able to plug your car in at night and expect a full charge in the morning.

I keep saying that they currently aren't for everyone. And Hybrids do exist if the price of gas is an issue but you can't charge or drive long distances. But if you have a predictable commute everyday like a whole lot of people who drive cars from A to B to A on a daily basis. It's an excellent option.

But EVs aren't lightweight. The battery is quite heavy. Do you have evidence that the frame of an EV is flimsier then a conventional ICE? That seems to be what you're alluding to here. There are also EV pickup trucks and large SUVs for those of you that are intimidated on the highway, like you quite obviously are.

Scraping the bottle of the barrel with excuses with this one. 1) Trucks in Ontario are throttled to 105 kms/hr. 2) EV, by and large, are much faster than comparable ICE Vehicles 3) I always find it pathetic when people think big SUVs are somehow a security blanket if they get T-boned by a Semi.

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The biggest reason people don't want to adopt EVs is because they want a large range. Why spend the extra for a half-measure like a PHEV? Please cite a PHEV that gets 150 EV only range. The two that had decent ranges are the Chevy Volt and the Honda Clarity, but have been discontinued. When I was looking I could get a $2,500 Federal rebate for a PHEV. Please cite such studies. The initial carbon footprint for an EV is higher, but not over the life of the car. Sure. I'm not advocating for actually using a Gasoline Generator, but I'm just saying that it would use less gasoline than an ICU for a comparable range. In the EV world you use the Kwh as the energy unit that matters. A litre of Gasoline has the potential energy of 9 kwhs. Or at least that's what Google says. My middling EV has a battery that's 37 kwh. That means, to achieve a range of up to 300 kms, I'd be using the comparable energy of less than 4 litres of gasoline. Even the most fuel efficient ICE can't get go 100 kms without burning 5 litres of gasoline.

You don't actually get 90% of the benefits with PHEV. Unless you're only driving short distances every day. A lot of PHEVs are just giant honking SUVs with abysmal gas mileage that has a small battery that gets maybe 50 kms or range. And a lot of these don't even go for full EV range very long. Most car companies have discontinued the PHEVs and moved either towards Hybrids or Full EV models. Regarding burning fossil fuels for electricity. I've pointed this out many times. An EV battery uses so much less actual energy than the hugely energy gasoline. You'd be far better off from a carbon scenario if you charged your EV with Gasoline from a Generator. It'll use a fraction of the gasoline as an ICE vehicle. People don't realize how inefficient ICE vehicles are.

I like how you quote the WEF. Aren't those the devils trying to control us?\ Lithium is not a rare Earth element. There's plenty of it. We just have to mine it. Kinda like how we mine all the Fossil fuels we run our society off of. And unlike Fossil Fuel, Lithium IS RECYCLABLE. No one's going to throw a battery full of a valuable metal in a Landfill just to rot, just like no one throws away Copper, or Steel or Tin or any Metal that can repurposed.

This is clearly evidence that the West must do whatever it can to appease Putin and stave off Nuclear War. That always works with these guys right? ?

The Luftwaffe wasn't going to be able to scramble anyone in Yalta in 1944.

Is this like the first Modern POTUS ever to visit an active warzone where the US didn't control the Airspace? I can't imagine FDR ever visited anywhere where the Allies didn't control the area. They gave Russia the heads up almost daring them to try something.

Governments are all accountable to the electorate during elections. The government is not obliged to placate a rabble of Truckers that are butthurt with legal vaccine mandates.

If only the Governor General dissolved parliament like she was supposed to!!!!

Alright, so this is where the thread departs from reality.

I less support him then oppose terrorists who took our Capital city hostage for 3 weeks. DoFo did the same thing in Windsor.

JT has no obligation to meet people who are brazenly breaking the law.

If that lady only listened to police, she wouldn't have been trampled. Simple as that. Isn't that the prevailing opinion of police violence?

The scope of the investigation was quite limited. AG Barr absolved Trump before the findings were even made public. Trump has praised Putin on multiple occasions. Talking heads like Tucker Carlson are basically propagandists for the Kremlin. It's quite the divide in the party actually as Senate leader McConnell has come out quite strongly on supporting the Defense of Ukraine. BTW it was actually Biden who brought the last troops home.

They've been a Putin Puppet party since Trump. You have a faction of the GOP and Right that are rooting on Putin in Ukraine.

Can you cite that claim? I think only the Toronto team isn't supported properly. Lots of sports are subsidized. Hockey much Federal Money was given to Hockey Canada before we found out they had a Sexual Assault Legal Slush fund?

Here's a report claiming Russia has averaged 800+ losses a day since the start of February. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64616099 How can Russian morale be anything but awful.

Think again. https://realestatemagazine.ca/end-exclusionary-single-family-zoning-says-orea/ Sure. But this narratives flies in the face of your narrative that these efforts to increase densification is just a way to bring in "undesirables". OK but that's not what's being advocated for here. The Opinion piece you cite mentions that the Biden Administration and some states are moving to encourage cities to allow for higher density housing. Not Free, but with more housing the values stabilize or drop. I can see why people who already live their oppose this, they want their housing value to go up. But this speaks to a problem in North America. Once you're in. . NIMBY.