In 2024 the liberal government gave nearly 30 billion in subsidies to the oil and gas industry. Is it a wonder that the conservatives are 1-upping and actively attacking electrification?

I was so enjoying not having to see his face.

Of course EVs are better than petrol cars.

You know what's even better than EVs?

Bicycles!

Make cities livable FFS!

Fun facts (that should never get in the way of PP rant) :

• Solar is government sibsidised
• Rural is the best location for solar (what with all those acreages, barns etc)
• Full off-grid capabilities where you don't have to run to town for anything)... well.maybe dieselfor tractor
• I see quite a few rural installs and when I mention to folks availability of Solar at slight premium for the first 10yrs a lot of folk are "sold" on the idea

so yeah, Armageddon and killing a way of life... maybe hillbilly's way of life but definitely not rural, 'cause we're down with full power independence baby!

He's weird.

All I need for 90+% of my transport would be a small EV about the size of a smart car to use when the weather is poor. I use an electric bicycle as often as I can. Most of my driving is to the shops and back about 4km in total. I have a camping rig for May through September where I attend a music school. Also I really enjoyed the time where we saw much less of him in the media. He is deeply unlikable.

My EV is better than my gas car in every conceivable way except for the lack of rural charging infrastructure - which ain't my car's fault.

Yes, the purchase price was higher than my last car, but my first service that's more than inspections or replacing the cabin air filter is at 96,000km and that's to replace the brake fluid. There is basically zero maintenance cost.

I also charge it almost exclusively using my solar panels. Actual cost of ownership is cheaper than my old gas car, it's more comfortable, absurdly fast, and I never have to stand in the cold pumping gas. Now if only someone would start selling an EV station wagon in Canada...

That's what conservatives do. Everywhere. Ignore the problems, hen try to do a diversion.

Histerical? Get a doctor to start flicking his sad little bean then.

Ugh, I really don't need to see his face on Lemmy.

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a zero-emission vehicle is defined as battery electric, fuel-cell, or plug-in hybrid electric

Yes, they're still counting gasoline-powered hybrids as zero-emissions. Avoiding opportunities for that kind of stupidity is one reason why it'd be better to simply have a carbon tax that applies to everything. If CATL comes through with its low-cost sodium-ion batteries next year, then a relatively modest tax — such as the one we recently had — might even be enough to let EVs take over most of the market. Of course they might be slowed down a little by the cult-like devotion to putting GAS in your TRUCK as some kind of ritual expression of Conservative identity.

As soon as they got caught on the hypocrisy of the "arsonist" argument, since they are willing to defend people defying fire bans, they put another quarter into the bullshit reason gumball machine for their latest new excuse.