Through the European Green Deal, European bureaucrats are ignoring citizen opposition in deindustrializing Western Europe and reducing its agricultural production.

They’re using climate laws to attempt to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The agricultural policy provisions of these laws—the euphemistically named Farm to Fork Strategy—have European farmers uniting in protest like never before.

These laws are driving up food prices and reducing agricultural jobs while having practically no effect on the planet’s temperature. Using calculations from government models, even if the European Union had no emissions at all, it would only make a difference of 0.13 degrees Celsius by the year 2100.

“The elevated costs associated with EVs persisted. Efforts to wrestle it down proved to be more challenging.” //

Because of low demand and high repair costs, Hertz Global Holdings Inc. will sell 20,000 electric vehicles (EV), one-third of its EV fleet. //

Hertz and everyone else had to know this would not work. You mean you couldn’t tell no one wanted to rent EVs?

Go woke, and you waste a ton of money:

Hertz will record a non-cash charge in its fourth-quarter results of about $245 million related to incremental net depreciation expense. //

Corky M | January 13, 2024 at 9:50 am
Recent article by younger fellow discussed how after 7 years his Tesla S had lost 32 percent of it’s range. What was more amazing to me was that he said he would still purchase another one.

Oh, and a 7 year old internal combustion engine vehicle is likely to get the same miles per gallon today as it did when new.

The long-term damage to the economy demanded by the “must go all electric” crowd will just increase. Electrification of everything to save the planet is a canard for being able to completely control humanity.

Nada mas.

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Colin Hunt Dec 31, 2023

"Degrowth has many great ideas that would correct social injustice."

Please explain who is expected to die off for everyone else. Also please explain how you expect this to be enforced. //

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Typical ad hominem from people like you trying to avoid the fact that your recommendations will result in more poverty and death in developing nations. And you still refuse to answer the questions put to you.

Both energy industry officials and eco-activists are complaining.

Any time Gavin Newsom says, “Here are the facts,” brace yourself — you will not be getting the facts.

The reasons for the recent spike in California gas prices was expertly laid out by Valero executive Scott Folwarkow in reply to a September 30 letter California Energy Commission Chair David Hochschild sent to California refinery executives regarding the issue. Hochschild’s letter was filed at the Commission at 1:26 p.m. that Friday afternoon, and he demanded a reply to his questions by Monday, October 3 — giving them just one business day to answer. //

We believe the Commission experts understand that California cannot mandate a unique fuel that is not readily unavailable outside of the West Coast and then burden or eliminate California refining capacity and expect to have robust fuel supplies. Adding further costs, in the form of new taxes or regulatory constraints, will only further strain the fuel market and adversely impact refiners and ultimately those costs will pass to California consumers. //

For Valero, California is the most expensive operating environment in the country and a very hostile regulatory environment for refining. California policy makers have knowingly adopted policies with the expressed intent of eliminating the refinery sector. California requires refiners to pay very high carbon cap and trade fees and burdened gasoline with cost of the low carbon fuel standards. With the backdrop of these policies, not surprisingly, California has seen refineries completely close or shut down major units. When you shut down refinery operations, you limit the resilience of the supply chain. //

the number of operating refineries in the state has decreased dramatically over the years. In 2000 there were 23 operating refineries, compared to just 13 in 2022. In 1983, when the state’s population was 25 million, there were 40 operating refineries. In 2020 there were 40 million people in California and just 14 operating refineries.

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We’re lucky turkeys would never do this to us—you don’t have to do it to them, either.

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Turkeys are not vegetarians. Turkeys eat mice, lizards, frogs, and just about anything they can fit in their mouth. If turkeys were larger or had the technological means to farm and eat humans, their current diet reveals they likely would.

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This picture is fake .

Turkeys don’t celebrate Thanksgiving sitting around a table. They sit on a table resting on a platter.
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Do you ever post about how many birds are killed by wind turbines?
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frylock234
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The dirty little secret most vegans would like to ignore is that while there are a decent number of obligate carnivores in the world (felines being the most obvious that people know of), there are very, very few obligate herbivores. "Obligate" here means they subsist on a diet consisting solely of that type of food. Cats need exclusively meat, but most of the animals we tend to think of herbivores are not obligate. They can and will snack on animal protein if the opportunity presents ... it's just that it doesn't happen often and we seldom catch them at it. Birds like turkeys, chickens, etc., are more likely to be caught at it because they're fairly active hunters. Chickens are great at keeping insect pests out of your garden and they'll eat mice and other small animals they can catch. But your average cow is not above nibbling on the meat on a fresh kill if they come across it; they just don't possess the machinery or instincts to hunt effectively so you almost never see that happen.

If you want an obligate herbivore, try koalas for one of the few. They have to eat eucalyptus, and as a consequence, they are pretty slow and derpy as a survival mechanism.

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So, pandas with the bamboo may be with the koalas in the obligate herbivore category. Slow and derpy is a great description!