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Originally Posted by Buckhead
There is a bit of a snag here. Canada's electrical generating and transmission system requires about $2 Trillion in upgrades to charge all these predicted EVs. Then there is the mining. Mine planning and permitting takes a minimum of 10 years - more like 20 in the current environment. EVs are going nowhere fast. Perhaps in 30 years or so they will be a viable solution.
Subsidizing EVs with other people's money is not capitalism. Everyone knows what that is and it has proven to be an unworkable solution for at least the past 100 years or more.
Also, it is not pollution from internal combustion engines that is the main issue in China and India. It is the fact that they generate around 70% of their electricity from coal fired generating facilities. And they are constructing more of them every week. (Sometimes 2 a week). Alas, we are not allowed to send them nice clean natural gas to burn.
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No problem shipping them about 40 million metric tons of coal though!
