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2023-07-16 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Climate Expert: Gas Car Cancellation Is Intended to End Private Transport

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Been watching more Chinese tv drama's lately. Have been noticing CCP slips here there.

Like an actor playing a rich family wife saying we need to go see _____, tomorrow. An rich actor husband sayingwe can't because the car is under restricted travel this week. We will have to use the train & cab.

Posted by NN2N1 2023-07-16 07:15|| 2023-07-16 07:15|| Front Page Top

#2 On the other hand, current hydrocarbon consumption levels are not sustainable forever; electric power could be (with nukes,) though storage and transport of electrons has a long way to go (I think using electricity to manufacture synthetic liquid hydrocarbon fuels has more potential than batteries…)

Posted by Glenmore 2023-07-16 08:33|| 2023-07-16 08:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Mobility is a pox to the concept of the hive city, the baseline component of the brave new world the Globalists envision. Once you herd the overwhelming majority of the population back into the Soviet Bloc apartment/public transport/digital currency/ESG scored hives, control is certain with Stasi-like techniques and efficiency. It is equity for the proles, and the rural Dacha's are the exception for the ruling class. A vision straight out of the DDR playbook of 1978, redux!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-07-16 11:50|| 2023-07-16 11:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes. From Blade Runner to Soylent Green, making the countryside off-limits is central to the plan.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-16 11:54|| 2023-07-16 11:54|| Front Page Top

#5 My folks are complaining today. They bought a hibrid. Registration in Ohio cost twice as much for a hibrid.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-16 13:51|| 2023-07-16 13:51|| Front Page Top

#6 "Hydrocarbon consumption levels are unsustainable."

Is that anything like Peak Oil last century?

Posted by Regular joe 2023-07-16 13:53|| 2023-07-16 13:53|| Front Page Top

#7 I think using electricity to manufacture synthetic liquid hydrocarbon fuels has more potential than batteries

The problem is losses in conversion. You won't get more than 10% efficiency going from electrons to HC fuel and then burning HC fuel to motion. While electrons to battery to motion can result in 90% efficiency.

Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-07-16 18:24|| 2023-07-16 18:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Is that anything like Peak Oil last century?

Come on, man! Peak Oil is some serious shit.
We use oil to light our homes and run our machines.
Demand is constantly increasing but there are only so many whales in the world. No matter how many we catch, eventually we will run out of whales and civilization will collapse.

If you have a bent for history, you may have noticed that Civilization never collapsed due to lack of whale oil. When something becomes expensive/rare, we find cheaper alternatives or substitutes. We're clever monkeys, it's what we do.

The thing missing from the Malthusian Models of Doom is technology. As a Neolithic farmer with a stick, I can produce say 1 bushel per acre. As a 21st century farmer with a John Deere and some fertilizer, I can get maybe 50. A model is only as good as its assumptions. The Malthusians are assuming a static world. They also like to extrapolate a lot.

Posted by SteveS 2023-07-16 22:25|| 2023-07-16 22:25|| Front Page Top

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