Nearly 50 per cent of Canadians say they can’t afford meat
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I feel you aren't reading carefully. The scenario was high speeds everywhere and you answer about highways. Then you say
and as proof you link to an article about future electric vehicle sales.
I think you don't want climate change to be disruptive, but that's part of the definition of a crisis.
I didn’t say high speeds everywhere. I said where safe to do so. The road from Merritt BC is rated at 120 and it easily supports 130-140 in good straight dry conditions.
Future electric vehicle sales. Exactly. If all the western govs get their way, you won’t be able to buy or lease a new car by 2030-2035. Electric cars aren’t real cars. They are smartphones on wheels. Real cars have engines. A new Electric vehicles/trucks are no use if I’m on a construction site north of high level at -45 with no charging stations around, it’s gets 250km, tops, and I can’t idle it to charge the entire crews tools or keep the cab warm.
The fleet of f350 6.7 litre diesels do.
Until someone invents Star Trek like warp power for our trucks, electric ones aren’t an option. Especially with the 6,7,8k replacement. We can buy new V8s replacement engines for a fraction of that. If they ban all new light trucks by 2030- that’s fine. We just buy f350s. Ban those? We buy F450s. Then f550s. All the ‘carbon tax’ did was raise the costs for our customers.
That's right. I did. I was pointing out how "CO2 is good for plants" was as silly as saying "no speed limits anywhere because people would get where they're going faster". But you missed that. Like I said, you don't seem to be reading carefully.
Peterbilt is taking orders for electric class 8 highway tractors. Canada's government is mostly concerned with the people within a hundred miles of the southern border, so you and the boys may find your boss has permission to use F350 diesels for a while - or he might have to buy F550s to get out of the light truck class - but we're only at the Model A stage for electric vehicles.
Ok fine.
So saying “co2 is good for plants is silly as no speed limits anywhere”. Yet it’s been shown anywhere where no obvious speed limit signs are seen, on any type of road, motorists the vast majority of the time self police and do a speed reasonable to the road type and conditions. With speed AND co2, there is such a thing is ‘too much’ or ‘too high’.
Co2 is good for plants, within reasonable levels. Say, 2000-5000ppm. I should have specified that originally.
Is co2 good for plants? No? Yes? Depends? On what level ppm? If it isn’t “good for plants” then why do scores of commercial greenhouses in Alberta (Redcliff AB has loads) dump large amounts of co2 into their greenhouses?
Do you have a position on what ppm of global c02 is acceptable? Should it be higher than what the Paris agreement says? Lower?
Yep.
Not my field, so I take advice from the experts. They say to reduce the use of fossil fuels as fast as possible, even if it's painful.