Lucid and Rivian having problems

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Mulroney the Conservative is the Prime Minster who imposed the GST.

And I will never forgive Stephen Harper for reducing the gst. So much political capital wasted to enact the consumption tax. The only equitable form of taxation. Did GST alone was probably responsible for forcing the conservatives into the hinterland for a decade.
Then Stephen Harper tempted to use the reduction to buy votes. And it did not work. What a complete waste.

[blackpowder]

This works both ways. Maybe what the Scandinavian countries need is some Eastern Canadians to show them how to manage Norway's resource revenue.
Send some Quebec liberals over to Sweden to enact a equalization scheme upon Norway. Obviously, Norway cannot be trusted to manage their own resource revenue, since they have readily kept it to themselves instead of sharing with their less resource endowed neighbors.

It is almost unfathomable what financial position Alberta would be in if not for equalization.

Actually, 14th ranked against all US states. Ontario just ahead of AL and BC lower than KY.
Collectively, Canadian per capita GDP has fallen from 6th to below 20 in the world.
Something not entirely attributable to AB.

[WiltonRanch]

So what was Alberta planning to export after the gas and very expensive and dirty oil runs out?

So you are counting on oil demand to increase even when the IEA says it will start to decline.

Because even Danny Smith wants to increase the Heritage fund after successive Conservative governments mismanaged one time resource revenues.

Alberta should have had a few Norwegians showing them how to mange their money!

She ain’t running out any time soon. Your great grandkids will be dancing on your grave and Alberta will be pulling oil and gas. Hope renewables are improved enough to slow depletion and pollution though.

[LEP]

So what was Alberta planning to export after the gas and very expensive and dirty oil runs out?

So you are counting on oil demand to increase even when the IEA says it will start to decline.

Because even Danny Smith wants to increase the Heritage fund after successive Conservative governments mismanaged one time resource revenues.

Alberta should have had a few Norwegians showing them how to mange their money!

Gee. I think Notley had 4 years to change the course from those bad old conservatives. What did she do?? Oh ya added 90 billion to the debt.

So easier said than done.

[Hamloc]

Mulroney the Conservative is the Prime Minster who imposed the GST.

And how did the work out for Mulroney? Lowest approval rating in history of any sitting Prime Minister at 12%! Then in typical Liberal fashion Jean Chrétien ran the 1993 election on removing the GST and getting rid of free trade but as with most Liberal promises he didn’t follow through.

[chuckChuck]

This works both ways. Maybe what the Scandinavian countries need is some Eastern Canadians to show them how to manage Norway's resource revenue.
Send some Quebec liberals over to Sweden to enact a equalization scheme upon Norway. Obviously, Norway cannot be trusted to manage their own resource revenue, since they have readily kept it to themselves instead of sharing with their less resource endowed neighbors.

It is almost unfathomable what financial position Alberta would be in if not for equalization.

Equalization is a Federal program and is paid for with federal taxes. No money is sent from Alberta directly to any other other province.

And Albertans pay the same federal tax rate as every other Canadian. But Alberta has the highest GDP per capita because of the oversized oil industry relative to population. It sucks to be rich?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Another example of what a good sense of humour the EV crowd has:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1765696796100116536

[TSIPP]

It’s just the looney lefties at work with someone else’s money

[fjlip]

HA HA EV crazies!

[fjlip]

Lets wake up some more...

[TSIPP]

That’s a great video of all the cons of EV technology.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

So much for Chuck's default argument that EV's are more efficient:

EVs consume the same energy per mile driven as the most efficient gasoline and diesel vehicles in warm weather, and Figure 2 shows EVs consume 33-45% more energy in cold weather than the highest fuel economy ICE vehicles. For anyone concerned about the energy required to support a vehicle fleet, it would be a mistake to think – as EPA suggests – that EVs require three times less energy compared to the best fuel economy ICE models. EV proponents suggest that the power for EVs is renewable or will become all renewable over time. There are, however, significant limitations to greater renewable energy expansion that suggest we are close to the upper limit on (intermittent renewable supply). Because of the fuel economy misconception explained above, the investment in renewable power generation, infrastructure, and power storage is too low by a factor of three. This is especially important because 68% of California’s electrical power is from combustion-based energy production.

Cold weather operation also poses greater energy drain for EVs than gasoline and diesel vehicles. Testing EVs on the EPA fuel economy test cycles in cold weather (at 20°F), finds EVs consume 42% more energy than the official EPA fuel economy tests (which are done around 72°F) By contrast, gasoline and diesels vehicles consume just 5-15% more energy when operated in cold weather. Figure 4 below represent EVs’ and gasoline vehicles’ cold weather operation. As can be seen, EV fuel economy drops 33-44% below the best gasoline and diesel models when operated in cold weather.

https://stillwaterassociates.com/are-evs-more-fuel-efficient-than-gasoline-and-diesel-cars/#:~:text=Similarly%2C%20electric%20vehicles%20(EVs ),of%20energy%20stored%20in%20their