How many of them "exist" without Canadian petroleum?
Most of them.
The bigger factor is the electricity generated in Ontario, Quebec and Labrador. That is the energy backbone of Canadian manufacturing, not Western oil.
An Inconvenient Truth
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Most of them.
The bigger factor is the electricity generated in Ontario, Quebec and Labrador. That is the energy backbone of Canadian manufacturing, not Western oil.
... is in decline but not in collapse. 2 million cars a year are still made in Ontario and the Western oil content in them is 0.00% There is some Natural Gas content but mostly, it's the electricity. That aluminum billet that's made into car parts is more often than not smelted using Quebec Hydro.
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/topics-start/automotive
It's one of those "inconvenient truths" that doesn't jive with your cornpone populism.
Oh..I dunno...
There's even a Japanese company, Genepax, showing off a prototype that runs on nothing but water. On June 13 Reuters published a report on the prototype, complete with a now much-blogged-about video even showing an innocuous gray box in the Genepax vehicle'strunk supplying all the power to drive the car. All you have to do is add an occasional bottle of Evian (or tea, or whatever aqueous fluid is handy), then drive all over without ever needing gasoline.
So what do I think about all of this? Why haven't I tested and written about this stuff? It's certain to Change the World As We Know It ... right?
Rubbish.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a3428/4271579/
Now...rubbish powered cars...that's the wave of the future.
Soon, very soon, they won't need the petroleum products to run automobiles. The whole world is working on electrics, hybrids, fuel cells ... anything but petroleum. I'll bet Aramco is going public right now to milk the last bit out of it before world wide demand crashes in a couple of decades.
Calgary could end up as a dusty, dry ghost town in fifty years.
Do you live in your car now, by any chance?
.... in a Tim Hortons parking lot, so that you can get WiFi?
As the EV batteries are consumed beyond the ability for recycling, the toxic mess that is left behind will represent a major health concern
... And yet here in Canada, it's on it's last legs.
The Cdn auto mfgr sector is hugely unprofitable and has been moving South.
Brazil uses very little gasoline. They source their fuel from sugar cane. It does nothing to stymie emissions.
It's Unifor driving them out even with ON Liberals heavily subsidizing the industry.
You burn anything the carbon in the matrix, the byproduct will be CO2 (CO if not a clean burn). Which is why hydrogen power would be great as the output of that is H2O.
The issue I have with EV is that the battery technology from manufacture to disposal leaves a huge environmental footprint -- I think even more so that a gas car. Granted less of it is likely CO2 but I think if you only focus on the CO2 you are being short sighted.
The fermentation process to make the ethyl increases the total emission far beyond that of petroleum.
SK has a massive REE deposit that will require denudation and strip mining of the boreal on a scale larger than the oil sands.
Do you think anyone will protest to stop it?
First Nations miners that lost their jobs in nuclear are banking on this for work.
SK has a massive REE deposit that will require denudation and strip mining of the boreal on a scale larger than the oil sands.
Do you think anyone will protest to stop it?
First Nations miners that lost their jobs in nuclear are banking on this for work.
2 million cars a year is not on it's "last legs". Your Cowgary based oil industry in in a much steeper nose dive and if it ever comes up again, it will be a temporary "peak oil" blip. Dinoyte is right.
Add in the punishing provincial (and Fed) taxes, unforgiving regulatory environment and the pressure from States to the South that are offering so many tax breaks and cash, Unifor is the icing on the rust-belt-North cake