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4/24/2022

At World Bank Climate Talk, Speaker Floats End of Conventional Vehicle Sales

The Epoch Times, By Nathan Worcester, April 21, 2022

“In remarks to the World Bank’s “Financing Climate Action” event on April 21, Baron Nicholas Stern, one of the world’s most influential climate economists, spoke about what he sees as necessary global actions on climate change, including on the sale of conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles.

“’The right kind of policies have to be put in place, including the abolition of fossil fuel subsidies, the advancement of carbon pricing, but clarity on timescales for decentralization of the grid, clarity on timescales for stopping the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles, and so on—making sure the sense of direction is clear in those ways,’ said Stern, who served as chief economist for the World Bank from 2000 through 2003.”

Not so fast. A friend was driving her all-electric Polestar in the Sierras this weekend, and the high elevation and sudden drop in temperature forced her to go to the charging station twice.

2 Comments

MrBill

4/26/2022 10:41:48 am

Robert, if people only knew the dystopian future that awaits if this insanity is allowed to continue.

Facts are stubborn things … like the fact that fossil fuels have unbeatable energy content per unit volume, and the fact that such energy is both inexpensively PORTABLE and STORABLE.

Cheap, abundant energy makes First World living possible for over 2 billion people, and Second World living for many billions more. It lengthens lifespans by making lives healthier in countless ways (e.g. fresh food available in-season or out, thanks to ubiquitous refrigeration, transport, capital equipment, fertilizers, etc.). This is a non-negotiable fact.

To intentionally transition away from this will necessarily cause the living standards, at the margin, of billions of people to fall. Billions of human beings will live shorter lives under more scarce and expensive energy than they otherwise would have under energy abundance. This is not idle speculation.

To intentionally advocate for this is EVIL.

I'm a BSEE, but please don't take my word for it. Just focusing on the transport sector alone, ask any power engineer, or someone who understands high-school physics how, pray tell, we expect to transport everyone and everything we've been transporting using fossil fuels with batteries and electric motors.

It comes down to BTU transport and storage. Replacing fossil-fuel BTUs with all-electric BTUs doesn't pencil out, and it's not even close. The numbers are orders of magnitude off. It simply isn't going to work. Period.

Which means … people will die.

Yes, starting at the margins, and progressively affecting more and more people, if the insanity continues, as more and more fossil fuel infrastructure is idled or destroyed, the adverse effects will spread.

This reckless descent into neo-feudalism must be stopped.

Robert E. Dunn link

4/27/2022 04:43:46 pm

Thank you, Bill.

He holds a BSEE, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.

We can rely on him as an expert in the field and is well-read, as you can see from the response. He is the best qualified to speak for me.

I have assigned dystopian short stories to one of my students. Never did I imagine that the future predicted in the stories would be coming true.

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