Total Members Voted: 11
Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM
Quote from: barton on April 30, 2021, 04:40:32 PMAnd green cannot be idiotically reduced to one measure like electric cars.Obviously since cars add next to nothing to climate change.If people want electric cars fine.But don’t throw auto workers out of jobs to do so when it will help tank the economy for no conceivable result on a pie-in-the-sky climate fantasy.More than nothing. Vehicles are one fifth of our emissions in the US. LOL Not passenger cars. 96% of the day they sit, using no energy.Electric Cars use energy when they are charging. (Idle)The net effect of electric cars, tomorrow, replacing passenger cars is a net energy LOSS.The International Energy Agency in 2016 estimated that if 50% of all new cars were electric, petroleum use would continue to grow because of “trucks, aviation and the petro-chemical industry and we don’t have major alternatives to oil prod-ucts there.
And green cannot be idiotically reduced to one measure like electric cars.Obviously since cars add next to nothing to climate change.If people want electric cars fine.But don’t throw auto workers out of jobs to do so when it will help tank the economy for no conceivable result on a pie-in-the-sky climate fantasy.More than nothing. Vehicles are one fifth of our emissions in the US.
The "Law and Order" Party strikes again:https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/551275-pro-trump-and-anti-vax-sites-urging-people-to?fbclid=IwAR2F0JGNBwnnTIF0ZQEndo_9PUVgngemkvOdJQAPWYRS-QqjNnXchkeKblQPro-Trump and anti-vax sites urging people to forge COVID-19 vaccination cards, says CDC
I had hoped that Scott might show some common sense, but it seems clear he is little more than an oreo with no real principles," Lamar County Democratic Party chair Gary O'Connor wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post, referring to Scott’s rebuttal to President Biden's Congressional address on Wednesday.
Oh, you might have freedom to own a gun, but not the right to carry it.