What A Difference Two Years Makes: That's How Little Time It Has Taken for Europe to Reverse Direction on EV Mandates, Although Blue States Wanted to Ape the EU
Joe Biden’s puppeteers, along with California and New York elitists, couldn’t wait to emulate Europe on EV mandates, but it’s only taken two years for our condescending brethren from across the pond to reverse direction as reality has hit them like a speeding bullet. Check out these two short videos to see what I mean:
Turns out that Germany’s pathetic attempts to soften the impacts of their insane EV mandate in 2023 weren’t nearly enough, as we see here:
Watch a bunch of elitist incompetents who suppose they know better about everything and were wrong about it all, as they’ve learned in just two years, but will never admit.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom was noticeable with his ABSENCE from this European Reverse Direction on EV mandates !
Well now, who would have thought it... Reality can be a hard task master. The EU finally coming up with some common sense energy policy at long last. Not least, in their 'words' they need to be 'technology neutral' or, I prefer 'technology agnostic'.
A more comprehensive sensible Energy Policy along the following lines merits consideration.
Electricity is a fundamental service, vital to the functioning of all first world countries. An effective energy policy must be affordable, reliable & consistently available 24/7. It should be straightforward, easy to understand & market driven. Designed with the consumer’s interests as the central focus, rather than being shaped by the priorities of the power generation industry.
In the absence of empirical evidence proving the case against CO2 (there isn’t any), the key elements of such a sensible Energy Policy should be composed of the following principles;
• Technology Agnostic: The policy should NOT favor any specific technology. All sources – fossil fuels, hydro, solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, wave energy, batteries & nuclear – should all be entertained.
• Elimination of Subsidies and/or Discriminatory (anti-competitive) Legislation: All subsidies & laws that advantage or disadvantage any particular technology must be removed/repealed. The market, through the independent choices of power generators, should determine which technologies are used. A level playing field that’s fair to all.
• Guaranteed Service Standards: Power generation contracts awarded via the Regulator in each country (AEMO in Australia) via auction (eg; xx GWh's/best $price contracted a month in advance) & must commit to a guaranteed QOS - Quality of Service - (typically +99.998% availability) in keeping with established QOS obligations as defined by the Regulator.
• Accountability Through Penalties: Power generators that fail to meet contracted QOS obligations be exposed to significant financial penalties, except in cases of force majeure due to natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods or bush fires.
• Environmental Restoration Bonds: Generators must pay a substantial upfront bond to cover the costs of environmental restoration, including the decommissioning & removing infrastructure & handling disposal or recycling (e.g., solar PV panels, wind turbine blades), similar to established practice within the mining industry by way of land restoration.
• Legislative Reform: Repeal any existing anti-competitive legislation (as in Australia including the RET , LRET, SRES Safeguard Mechanism) & similarly, in Australia, repeal the ban on nuclear power generation to create a truly level playing field.
If the power generating industry finds the principles associated with this proposed sensible Energy Policy unpalatable, simply re-nationalize the industry & return it to whence it came i.e., the responsibility of respective State Govt’s.
Easy.