What do you think?
If their twin turbo ecoboost line produce more power more efficiently than hybrid, why bother?
Is Canada ready for the coming electric vehicle revolution?
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What do you think?
If their twin turbo ecoboost line produce more power more efficiently than hybrid, why bother?
Yep, the two deads cancel each other out..............:lol:
What's with this "revolution"? I think the O.P. author misspelled "trickle" :lol:
A guy I know bought a hybrid at about the same time I bought my car....Same seating capacity a little bit less trunk space than me...
He traded his car in last month for another hybrid and since the guy keeps accurate data on all expenses same as me... I asked him to compare his data with mine His average fuel consumption was almost exactly as mine But the price of his car was a whole lot more!
Here is the data for mine.
I'm willing to compare my carbon footprint data with any of the eco-nut snowflakes in the forum
B.T.W. I use high octane gasoline so the price per liter is a bit higher
Another one not willing to pick up the challenge of comparing the carbon footprint of his vehicle....so tries to be funny!
But likes to preach to others about global warming
Bloody hypocrite heh?
new electric buses to be used in Gopherland:
https://www.metrotransit.org/new-rapid-bus-line-to-include-battery-electric-buses
https://www.metrotransit.org/new-rapid-bus-line-to-include-battery-electric-buses
Here is an older article to remind us just why LIE-berals are so hungry for electric car sales and the resulting flow of grvy to their various slush funds that will be used to buy civil service union Hog votes- and to hell with the environment! LIE-berals are all about collecting cash and clinging to power at any price and monkeying with electricity and electric car market is a target area for greedy LIE-berals!
Don’t look now, Canada’s economy is getting ugly 6/13. Maclean's.
Jason Kirby.
Oooph. That’s about the best way to sum up the state of Canada’s economy after a barrage of awful economic reports in recent weeks.
First up was fresh evidence that Canada’s manufacturing sector is struggling, despite all the support it’s received from cheap oil, the low loonie and a strengthening U.S. economy. Factory sales fell in May by 1 per cent, the third monthly drop this year.
After that, we learned Canada suffered the steepest monthly decline in GDP since 2009, as the full impact of the Fort McMurray wildfires caused the economy to shrink by 0.6 per cent in May. As Statistics Canada noted at the time, the majority of the downturn was due to the fires, but not all of it. In fact, in three of the first five months of 2016 that we have data for, Canadian real GDP declined on a monthly basis, even when the beleaguered oil sands are taken out of the picture.
(EVEN WHEN OIL SANDS ARE OUT OF THE PICTURE) The economy is still a mess! And one good reason for our highest ever trade deficit is our LIE-beral mandated `need` to buy oil from socialist Venezuela. Its all very well for our communist airhead prime minister to want to support fellow socialists but he ought NOT to be harming our economy while he does it! The amount of pollution produced in shipping oil from Alberta to New Brunswick is no greater than what is produced by shipping it from Venezuela to New Brunswick. And selling more Alberta oil is good for Canada as a whole!)
Then on Friday we got a double whammy of awful news on the jobs and exports fronts. First, the wallop from Statistics Canada’s labour force survey—the country lost 31,000 in July, a far, far cry from the 10,000 new jobs that were expected to be created. Ontario in particular was hit hard, losing more than 36,000 positions.
Perhaps one of the most troubling aspects of the jobs report, though, was that hourly wage growth has hit a wall, climbing just 1.8 per cent over last year, compared to an annual gain of 3.25 per cent in February. When combined together the drop in employment, slumping wage gains and stagnant growth in hours worked paint a picture of a labour market in distress.
Friday also brought yet more dismal news about trade. Canada’s trade deficit—the gap between the value of the goods it buys from the rest of the world and what it sells—widened to its largest in history. The trade shortfall hit a record $3.6 billion in June—in fact, of Canada’s 10 largest monthly trade deficits of all time, five have occurred this year alone. Worst of all, non-energy exports suffered a fifth straight monthly decline, and fell 3.5 per cent from the year before, the biggest year-over-year decline since 2012.
That’s a lot of scary news for the economy to digest in a short period of time. The worry is this will create a feedback loop, where bad news begets more bad news. As it is, this has already been the weakest recovery for business investment in decades, with the private sector on track for its lowest share of capital construction expenditures in a quarter century. So it’s hard to see businesses opening up their wallets to invest, which is what’s sorely needed in order to reduce the economy’s over-reliance on consumer spending and real estate.
(In recent years, govt has been very SCARED of `deflation`-in which the price of many things simply collapse-once deflation begins, it feeds on itself-why buy that new item this week when it will be on sale even cheaper next month-while the economy stagnates and waits for consumers to open their wallets again-but that will not happen because of how consumers have suffered- hours of work have been cut, wages have stagnated, jobs lost and worst of all-govt Hogs STILL DEMAND their entitlements-which translates into `new revenue tools and ever higher taxes as govt tries to maintain its gross gravy train! Deflation feeds on itself. But the greed of govt and its Hog unions is IMMUNE!)
This is also likely to make the job of Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz a lot more difficult. The recovery in non-energy exports, driven by the weaker loonie and a strengthening U.S. economy, was an important part of his explanation for how Canada would finally move beyond the effects of low oil prices. At the very least, that recovery seems to be on hold, though perhaps continued improvements south of the border—a report on Friday showed the U.S. economy created 255,000 jobs, exceeding expectations of 180,000 new jobs—will boost Canada’s non-resource economy in the coming months. If that doesn’t happen, Poloz may feel he has to cut interest rates again, at the risk of further inflating housing bubbles in Toronto and Vancouver.
(LIE-beral minister Poloz is oblivious to the mauling our industries have taken as a result of high taxes and a high value Cdn dollar. The number of people employed at General Motors in Oshawa a couple of decades back was Twenty Five Times HIGHER than it is now. We now see ominous signs that GM is looking to REMOVE virtually all its production from Ontari-owe-and one job in seven in Ontari-owe is currently related to and supported by the auto industry. There is an over supply of autos in the world and govt bribery can no longer placate GM-we just don’t have the money to give them any more-the combination of high taxes and high Cdn dollar plus a poor quality product has killed GM.)
Before Poloz does that, though, he will want to see if the fiscal stimulus measures revealed in the Trudeau government’s first budget work as promised. Ottawa plans to run a $29-billion deficit in fiscal 2016-17 as it rolls out its stimulus measures, including spending on infrastructure and enhanced child benefits. Last month the first payments under the new Canada Child Benefit went out to households, with some economists predicting it will add 0.1 to 0.2 percentage points to GDP this year due to higher consumer spending. All told, the government forecasted that its budget measures would add 0.5 percentage points to GDP.
(I say Poloz is serving an IMBECILE-that would be Trudope- our LIE-beral prime minister with nice hair for Brains! A thirty billion dollar deficit represents 8-10 percent of our yearly national budget- but it will add only an optimistic 0.1-0.2 percentage points to GDP-for this year-and for each year that we run MORE deficits. The proof is in the Roosevelt deficit financed `new deal` of the 1930`s-as soon as Yankees stopped running deficits the economy fell right back into depression-with the added bonus of a pile of NEW DEBT to tend to!)
(Our stupid Boy will load us up with MORE debt-for a very temporary boost to our economy- at a time when we are struggling with the EXISTING debt! As the U.S. new deal proved-the LIE-beral mandated cure-MASSIVE NEW DEBT- is worse than the economic stagnation disease! Govt spends about 75 percent if all its revenue on salaries and especially PENSIONS for civil service and its those grossly GENEROUS pensions that are killing us-it’s the solid gold.Hog pensions that must be killed off!)
(But Our Brainless Boy Trudope really IS a hardline Commie just like his loathsome father Pierre and Our Boy REALLY does want to please his father by taking Canada from the past into the future via the route of radical socialism-as Our Pet once admitted to news media! One has only to read the fulsome praise Our Pet heaped onto Chairman Mao-the murderer of thirty million inconvenient Chinese citizens- to realize how vicious Our Pet was! Or read the STARTLING biography of Our Pet written by his long time friends Max and Nadine Nemni!)
Which raises the question: At what point do the dismal jobs numbers, weak exports and slumping GDP become a political problem for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau?
The new debt and faltering economy will become a problem for Our Boy just as soon as that 55 percent of Cdns who don’t usually vote-get ANGRY enough to come down to a polling station and mark a ballot! The silent majority holds the power in this land and Hogs and LIE-berals live in TERROR of the day that mass of previously silent voters decides to speak!
It should be common knowledge that the Trudope `plan` to save our economy is nothing more than a much expanded, grossly more costly and no more effective plan than the one implemented by former Ontari-owe NDP premier Bob (BOOB) Rae-he of the infamous Rae days! Rae and his NDP Boobs doubled the Ontari-owe debt in four years and Our Brainless Boy sees no reason not to do the same for the nation!)
In reality, the Trudeau government is only a little over nine months into its first mandate, and less than five months have passed since the Liberals brought down their 2016 budget. For now, at least, the polls suggest Canadians are willing to accept the government’s position that it inherited a slow economy made worse by shocks like the Fort McMurray fires.
Yet a key plank in the Liberals’ election campaign was that Trudeau would bring a more activist government to Ottawa capable of engineering stronger growth through deficit spending—all in contrast to his predecessors low-tax, laissez-faire approach. Never mind that there’s really little that any government can do in the short term to influence the economy.
Whatever the polls say now, there’s a limit to how long Canadians will support the Trudeau government if its big deficits and bold promises don’t at least appear to deliver good news soon.
(There is also a limit to how long civil service Hog will put up with empty LIE-beral promises. Both McWynnty-The Great Whore premier of Ontari-owe and Our stupid Boy were elected on a Hog understanding that they would feed Hogs MORE GRAVY and thus far they are getting LESS! Look for Hog union leaders to try to do a series of very dirty little back room deals with political parties prior to the next set of elections. And there is every reason to believe that Great Whore McWynty will NOT run in the next election-she will fall on her sword for the good of the party and exit the scene so a new LIE-beral will have a chance to deliver a new set of unworkable promises to ever greedy and ever gullible provincial Hogs! But do not expect Our stupid Boy to do the same-federal LIE-berals will have to run through another election before they are persuaded to dump him!)
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/03/17/byds-revenge-china-february-electric-car-sales-report/
Encouraging e car sales in China - where the future is.
Encouraging e car sales in China - where the future is.
..... 'Cause the West is converting all cars to magic carpets and flying unicorns pulling wagons.
PS - any thoughts on how the Chinese are planning to generate all that electricity?
Yeah, I figured not
I'd not know if he read his link but...
I wouldn't drive a gasoline micro car let alone an electric one.
Wow 34,000.
I wouldn't drive a gasoline micro car let alone an electric one.
In a population of 1.379 billion.
That equates to 0.00246% of the population
What an amazing feat
That equates to 0.00246% of the population
What an amazing feat
Stop the presses!
591,864 F150s were built in 2017.
49,322 per month. Only 15,000 more than all EVS in China, a market 4X larger than the US
591,864 F150s were built in 2017.
49,322 per month. Only 15,000 more than all EVS in China, a market 4X larger than the US
They are extra safe.... Especially when one gets into a tangle with a Denali or F350