Saveing the world.

[dhermesc]

You seem to think "immigrants = workers". The US has a couple million people it will send you.
 

[showcrop]

[buickanddeere]

Mostly it is an excuse for a platform to make or collect money and enforce power or control. If any complaint is made they defend themselves with “ it is saving the environment “ or “ it’s for the children”.
 

[onefarmer]

Yes but it recycles just, like the trees I burn. lol
 

[Traditional Farmer]

Where is all the electricity going to come from to recharge all these electric? Read this morning the cold has stretched the power grid about to its limit,plug in a few million cars and I'd expect it'd blow a gasket.
 

[pete black]

What gets me is that those who drive an electric vehicle pulls up and expects to plug it in to recharge it for nothing.
 

[steve706]

Our social support system isn?t exactly as appealing as yours, that?s why they head there in the first place, change the system and they will disappear....Most that immigrate to Canada want a better life and tend to work for it, no shame in that.
 

[Wheres Waldo]

You know, there is a tax added to gasoline/diesel for road usage. Those electric vehicle users are in for a 'surprise' when they find out they're going to be charged for mileage. And guess who is doing the checking?
 

[Dean]

They are what they are, Paul.

Dean
 

[jeffcat]

I read stories about Australia and the rabbit plauge. Some people got hold of the virus that kills rabits and it was passed around between land owners like pound bags of refer. Throw some dead rabbit in a blender and mix up a batch of killer virus. Reading on wiki about it. Early 50s they had Myxoma virus and in the 90s 5hey used calicivorus. Always some idiot who introduced something that doesn't belong and has no natural predators. Yes we do need one heck of a dozzie of a plauge.
 

[Angle Iron]

[in-too-deep]

Hahaha! Best part was the gluten-free seitan skewer. Seitan in made ENTIRELY of wheat gluten! It's almost as if that article was making a mockery of the newlyweds. I hope so. Not for being vegan, that's fine, but for being such cryny whibabies!
 

[DoubleO7]

[MarkB_MI]

Better get used to it. Several European car makers have announced they'll phase out internal combustion vehicles in the next decade, switching to hybrid and/or 100 percent electric vehicles. Certainly US car makers won't get on the band wagon until they have to, but eventually they will.

The question is not whether or not electric vehicles pollute. They do. The question is which vehicles have the smaller environmental footprint: internal combustion or electric? If you can effectively recycle the batteries and generate power from renewable sources, electric vehicles have a smaller footprint. Even if we can't generate all of our power from renewable sources, economic forces are pushing out the dirtiest source of electricity, coal.

Rather than recycle lithium batteries, Elon Musk has proposed to re-purpose used EV batteries by using them to store solar energy. The used batteries are good enough for this purpose, it postpones the need to recycle the batteries, and it solves the need for low-cost solar energy storage.

Don't knock catalytic converters. Without this technology (or something similar), we would have been faced with an difficult choice: Continue to pollute our cities until they're unlivable, or switch to electric vehicles back when the technology was in its infancy. Also, catalytic converters had a beneficial side effect: they forced the elimination of lead from gasoline, removing a major source of lead in the environment. Anyone who experienced the air quality of Los Angeles or Denver back in the seventies and again in the past decade (as I believe you have) would agree that the air in those cities is much better today. Automotive emission controls were a major contributor to that improvement.
 

[DoubleO7]

I can be driving in town behind a gas vehicle and know by the stench of raw gasoline if it is pre 1976 vehicle.
Some are worse then others of course but some just make you gasp for some good air.