Posted on 10/18/2023 9:48:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Grab your popcorn, because there’s a full-speed, head-on collision between the left’s competing interests coming, and it’s fixing to be gory. From an item that appeared in The Wall Street Journal at the end of September:
Located underneath a distant, swampy expanse of spruce forests and meandering rivers in Northern Ontario that is cut off from major roads, the Ring of Fire is seen by industry and government officials as one of the world’s most important untapped sources of nickel, copper and cobalt—metals essential for making the batteries that power electric vehicles.
But the precious commodities are buried under a vast ecosystem of peat bogs, known by local groups as ‘the breathing lands,’ that hold more carbon per square foot than even the Amazon rainforest. Digging them up could trigger the release of more greenhouse gas than Canada emits in one year, turning one of the earth’s biggest carbon sinks into a major source of emissions, say climate advocates.
A debate over how, or whether, to tap in to this mother lode, located more than 700 miles Northwest of Toronto, has touched off a fight between mining companies, climate advocates, and indigenous groups as demand for cleaner energy and electric vehicles has surged worldwide.
Now, it goes without saying, I do not subscribe to the pseudo-science (at best) belief that CO2 in the environment is a bad thing, because it’s not. Sure, when highly-concentrated amounts are released all at once, like in instances of failed and ruptured pipelines for carbon capture schemes, but CO2 is essential to a literally green earth; without it, flora dies.
This is where competing interest number one enters the fray: the Net Zero position.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Now, we see competing interest number two rev its engines: the electric vehicle mandate.
They’ve gotten themselves into a real pickle on this one, because the E.V. mandate, an agenda really in place so the globalist aristocracy can seize complete control over easy and free movement of the plebs, relies on the argument that CO2 is bad, and therefore we must transition to “green” energy and away from crude oil and natural gas.
Of course, this ignores the constant ecological and environmental damage done to procure the materials for the E.V.
When the left decided to abandon objective morals, they also chose to do without logic itself.
let’s call it the Keystone Reserve
A meteor crashed there 1.8 billion years ago and Canada and Minnesota mine all the metals. Sudbury Area Mine mines nickel. The smokestacks are very tall and there are satellite photos showing downwind the dead vegetation for many miles. The nickel is shipped by train to western Canada then shipped to Japan to make parts for batteries then shipped back.
Very environmental....
Wiki: The Sudbury basin formed as a result of an impact into the Nuna supercontinent from a meteor approximately 10–15 km (6.2–9.3 mi) in diameter that occurred 1.849 billion years ago
That’s a pretty cool factoid!
I think the death of electric vehicles will be the insurance industry. A fire in just one EV can destroy whole shiploads of cars. A fire in just one EV can destroy whole parking garages of cars. A fire in just one EV can burn down a house. The fire hazard has been covered up since the beginning, but reality has a way of catching up with itself.
Currently the only thing more expensive to ensure that an EV is probably a Hyundai or Kia
The gov’t will force (legislate) the insurance companies to spread the risk over all the insured. ICE drivers will subsidize the EV risks.
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