Trudeau-2022 and beyond

[Hamloc]

The technology related to CCS will undoubtably improve over time. Look at how the proponents of solar power constantly talk about how it is becoming less expensive(imo because the Chinese started making solar panels) to generate solar power. If CCS can be made cost effective and maybe the new discovery of turning C02 into ethanol will help. The first application of a new technology is always the most expensive and ways to improve it and lessen it's cost come over time. With the thousands of existing coal generating plants in the world and the fact that oil is a finite resource the synergy of CCS and ethanol production would do far more for humanity than putting up solar panels.

[bucket]

Look if my farm helps clean up the emissions in Saskatchewan to reduce my coal powered electric bill ....fine...but I am not sure we in Saskatchewan should be cleaning up eastern Canada's mess.


Otherwise set up a system that pays me for my contribution to a cleaner environment....

[blackpowder]

Most would agree the last century was good to us. The internal combustion engine was a good thing. It lifted more people from poverty. Created more wealth across the classes. Equal access to transportation blurred the classses. Free market demand created and propelled it.
Technology must certainly advance substantially before green energy fills any of the above criteria. Is forcibly lowering a pop segment standard of living the best driver? Increasing wealth transfer years before benefit while alternatives just dont exist yet? I dont believe this will affect the income gap between classes except bulge the lower. As we know, all our leaders are from the upper ones. How does the immediate shutting in of an entire industry aid the invention of the next light bulb?
Remember, the light bulb did more to stop whaling than the price of whale oil.
Govts seem to suck at R&D. They also for the most part, become rather insular over time. Beware the govt that thinks it knows best.
When the newest tax, or forced, sudden elimination of a comparitively benign industry immediately aids the lower classes, then go for it. I'll sit and watch pigs fly.
Green is good, nip the bud too soon and everything turns black.

[fjlip]

Let's look at this another way, if you were the American Vice President and you had the chance to go to another country and speak for or against the imposition of a new tax that if enacted would increase their costs of production and make them less competitive against what your country produces would you encourage it or speak against it? That is a tough one to answer isn't it lol!

You are SO RIGHT and the IDIOTS in cabinet and MORON Turdo fell for it like a ton of SHIT!

[fjlip]

These policies of shutting down coal, imposing green energy have already been tried in Ontario. It resulted in 10's of thousands of jobs being exported out of that province and the creation of the largest non sovereign debt in the world. The only thing that Prime Minister Trudeau changed was that he added a carbon tax. It always helps economic growth to add a tax, right!! I can't believe the Liberal's are this stupid and by extension the Canadian people!!

You got it, TOTAL F*CKING IDIOTS!