Omnibus: Conservative Leadership Race

Tecumsehsbones

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Yes EV’s are growing more popular and make perfect sense for a commuter , and the infrastructure surrounding them will improve as will the technology behind them , as that occurs more and more will be sold . Expecting that to happen overnight is wishful thinking at best .
Thank you. This conversation (and others) will be a whole lot more productive (and interesting) if they don't devolve very rapidly into cursing your choice of Petrocorp, Inc. or Greta Satan Thunberg.
 

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And they're still a bit of a novelty item, cashing in on some sense of environmental responsibility. As gasoloine gets more and more expensive, EVs will gain popularity and competition between producers will kick in, and they will become more affordable.

One aspect that gets a lot of airtime is the increased load on electrical grids in our towns and cities.
Look to California and rolling blackouts , or Texas where the power grid crashed in the winter storm , we will need much more electrical generation to power our vehicles as more and more are being used . How long did it take to get Site C off the drawing board through the regulatory hoops and into production ? It was a five or more year process just to get approval for small run of the River projects . Will the environmentalists allow large scale electrical generation to get off the ground ?
 

Tecumsehsbones

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Look to California and rolling blackouts , or Texas where the power grid crashed in the winter storm , we will need much more electrical generation to power our vehicles as more and more are being used . How long did it take to get Site C off the drawing board through the regulatory hoops and into production ? It was a five or more year process just to get approval for small run of the River projects . Will the environmentalists allow large scale electrical generation to get off the ground ?
If they want their bloody lattes, they will.
 

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Thank you. This conversation (and others) will be a whole lot more productive (and interesting) if they don't devolve very rapidly into cursing your choice of Petrocorp, Inc. or Greta Satan Thunberg.
I am neither against progress or electric vehicles , but at this time where I live they are not ready for prime time . Most every owner of an EV that I know also has a ICE for use other than commuting .
 

Tecumsehsbones

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I am neither against progress or electric vehicles , but at this time where I live they are not ready for prime time . Most every owner of an EV that I know also has a ICE for use other than commuting .
So, like the internet, we get to watch a new technology from the ground up. Kinda cool, actually. I hope we learn some lessons from past technological revolutions.
 

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He won't..

The only reason you want Charest is you know that Conservative won't vote for him.. and move to the PPC

Pierrie will unite the Conservative vote and stomp on Trudeau.

Oh, you're serious..

Well umm.. Good luck to Peepee then.

Let me know when he's over the whole niqab thing 🙊
 
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taxslave

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That's the point. O'Toole understood that taking the party closer to center was what they had to do to attract voters from further left. Poilievre wants to take the party further to the right. Given what went on in the US during Trump's presidency, and what we've seen anti-vaxxers and the Freedom convoy, the far right doesn't have a great reputation right now. People will just hold their collective noses and vote Liberal. And I can see some Liberals defecting to the NDP as well, both of the main parties are looking the same with their choice to engage in squabbling over governing.
That is why the tool lost. We don't need any more extreme left politicians. 50 years ago the tool would have been considered at best middle of the road. The country has become lost in a battle to see who can download the most cost onto the next generation. This is not sustainable.
 

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That is why the tool lost. We don't need any more extreme left politicians. 50 years ago the tool would have been considered at best middle of the road.
But isn't a little more middle-of-the-road what the CPC needs to widen their voter support? They've pretty much licked the pot clean on the far right, even if they could win back those that O'Toole's appeals to centrists alienated there wouldn't be enough of them to win a federal campaign. O'Toole's problem was a lack of stick-with-it, he would back-peddle on his moves toward centre when the farther right within the party kicked up a stink. It's a party in total disarray, and while you can't really label him "extremist", Poilievre is far enough off the bubble within the party that he will not be able to unify them to the extent needed to convince voters that they are capable of running the country.
 

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But isn't a little more middle-of-the-road what the CPC needs to widen their voter support? They've pretty much licked the pot clean on the far right, even if they could win back those that O'Toole's appeals to centrists alienated there wouldn't be enough of them to win a federal campaign. O'Toole's problem was a lack of stick-with-it, he would back-peddle on his moves toward centre when the farther right within the party kicked up a stink. It's a party in total disarray, and while you can't really label him "extremist", Poilievre is far enough off the bubble within the party that he will not be able to unify them to the extent needed to convince voters that they are capable of running the country.
Well the CPC can travel further to the left and attract NDP voters , would you jump on board ?
 

taxme

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Levant is all about Levant getting rich on donations.

Who cares, cockwomble. The people that control the MSM are getting rich also from the many morons out there who keep listening too and believing their bullshit propaganda and lies. At least with Levant and The Rebel, I am getting the other side of the story that little wimps and cowards like you do not want people like me to ever learn or know about.

Your hero Marxist Trudeau has been getting very rich thanks to Covid. The turd is making plenty of profit off all of the sales of vaccines in Canada. The turd has stocks in big pharma. I did not learn that from the lying corrupt bought off MSM. I got all of that information from websites like The Rebel. :p