Welcome to Canada, the land of free roads, cheap gas – and the world’s least fuel-eff

[fjlip]

Sock it to EV with high road taxes, parking costs, charger cost, triple or more electrical transmission costs....soon F it, too expensive!

[jazz]

Free roads bad, free health care good, and both suck.

[Hamloc]

Sock it to EV with high road taxes, parking costs, charger cost, triple or more electrical transmission costs....soon F it, too expensive!

A bit of a story. Was looking at my daughter’s electricity bill. She said it seemed a bit high. She was on the variable rate plan which fluctuates with market conditions. The majority of her power she payed 18.7 cent/kilowatt and some of it she payed 27.6 cents/kwh. Long story short with Transmission and Distribution charges all in she payed 35 cents a kilowatt! Holy smokes. Now of course Chuck2 and Newguy will attack Alberta’s privately owned utilities. I guess it could be publicly owned and subsidized. Plugging in the fixed rate I am on the cost would be 21.60 cents per kilowatt. Regardless, with all the bragging Chuck2 does about all the wind and solar Alberta is adding to the grid electricity should be cheap shouldn’t it? Hmmm, in Alberta on the variable rate option which reflects market conditions apparently not!!! Government wrong again!! What a shock🤪

[Hamloc]

You are a carbon copy of chuck. This is his solution every time someone points out a problem in the here and now. Some yet to be developed pie in the sky technology, defying the laws of physics and economics.
Have you considered merging your two accounts into one in the name of efficiency? You both sing from the same hymnal.

Are you sure they aren’t the same person? Both seem to have disappeared from this debate!?

[furrowtickler]

The loony tunes must be at their summer retreat getting new talking points from Trudeau.
They will all magically show up all at once in a few days. Just like before, they all disappear then all show up on here the same day signing the same tune as every talking point from the Feds and MSM . Rinse wash repeat and troll away

Or ……. They all got “sun poisoning” and are in hospital recovering

[fjlip]

EV shit not selling....

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-unsold-electric-vehicles/

[WiltonRanch]

Are you sure they aren’t the same person? Both seem to have disappeared from this debate!?

There’s a couple others who do the same as well. Can tell by writing style and political bent. Not saying who they are as they’re not dipshits like whom you’re referring to here.

[newguy]

The article Chuck2 cut and pasted was all about the need to raise the road tax higher on gasoline to pay for roads. There is no road tax on electricity. Switching to EV’s will make the problem far worse. What is the solution?

Lots of tax loop holes out there.No worries Moe is about to seal all those loop holes and collect more than enough keep roads repaired.

[WiltonRanch]

Lots of tax loop holes out there.No worries Moe is about to seal all those loop holes and collect more than enough keep roads repaired.

Yeah so do EV owners then pay a road tax when purchasing their vehicle registration each year? Aside from continuous childish responses how do ev owners contribute to the infrastructure they use?

[furrowtickler]

Yeah so do EV owners then pay a road tax when purchasing their vehicle registration each year? Aside from continuous childish responses how do ev owners contribute to the infrastructure they use?

Carbon tax’s from the wealth creating industries

[Hamloc]

Lots of tax loop holes out there.No worries Moe is about to seal all those loop holes and collect more than enough keep roads repaired.

So you have no issue with taxpayers subsidizing road infrastructure which was the original complaint in the editorial cut and paste which started this thread?! I find it interesting that none of our socialist posters came up with any numbers to support their viewpoint. Your about as incompetent as our present Prime Minister.

[furrowtickler]

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/solar-panels-are-three-times-more-carbon-intensive-ipcc-claims

[chuckChuck]

Zero hedge as a source of facts? Zero chance on that.

Manitoba has announced the vast majority of their electricity expansion in the coming years will be from wind and solar. Both are some the lowest generation cost electricity on the planet.

[Hamloc]

Zero hedge as a source of facts? Zero chance on that.

Manitoba has announced the vast majority of their electricity expansion in the coming years will be from wind and solar. Both are some the lowest generation cost electricity on the planet.

Chuck2 how is road tax going to be payed by EV owners? Chevrolet Blazer EV is projected to be 33% heavier than it’s ICE counterpart. The Hyundai Tucson EV is 46% heavier than it’s ICE counterpart. How will all this extra weight affect roads? Tire wear?

If solar and wind are so cheap why does the price of electricity in Alberta keep going up as more wind and solar are added? And the price of natural gas goes down? Hmmm carbon tax?

[furrowtickler]

Zero hedge as a source of facts? Zero chance on that.

Manitoba has announced the vast majority of their electricity expansion in the coming years will be from wind and solar. Both are some the lowest generation cost electricity on the planet.

Better check the cost of electricity in Western Europe……. Completely debunks what you just claimed . Check Denmark, one of the highest energy costs in the world