Posted on 08/21/2018 12:48:15 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
If we want to solve climate change, there's no other option.
Germany was supposed to be a model for solving global warming. In 2007, the country’s government announced that it would reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by the year 2020. This was the kind of bold, aggressive climate goal scientists said was needed in all developed countries. If Germany could do it, it would prove the target possible.
But with a little over a year left to go, despite dedicating $580 billion toward a low-carbon energy system, the country “is likely to fall short of its goals,” Bloomberg reported. And the reason for that may come down not to any elaborate solar industry plans, but something much simpler: cars.
Changing the way we power our homes and businesses is certainly important. But as Germany’s shortfall shows, the only way to achieve these necessary, aggressive emissions reductions to combat global warming is to overhaul the gas-powered automobile and the culture that surrounds it. The only question left is how to do it.
For Germany to meet emissions targets, “half of the people who now use their cars alone would have to switch to bicycles, public transport, or ride-sharing,” Heinrich Strößenreuther, a Berlin-based consultant for mobility [said].
“A new transport system that connects bicycles, buses, trains, and shared cars, all controlled by digital platforms that allow users to move from A to B in the fastest and cheapest way—but without their own car,” Schwägerl said.
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“ no other device that can secure your freedom more than a gas powered automobile.“
How about a rifle?
Unnecessary nostalgia trips have limited appeal.
A Cadillac CT6 (4100 lbs) with 183 cu in V6 will easily do 0-60 in under 5 sec. How much pure power will sell to a mass market?
Amazingly, they also admitted in the article that electric cars spew more toxins in the air than gas powered cars, but followed it up with a decree that electric cars should be powered by renewable sources.
Yea, I’m going to stand in front of a windmill flapping my arms on a calm day so my car can get recharged so I can drive another 40 miles between charges, vainly looking for a solar farm during the rainstorm, in which I can’t use lights or wipers so as not to drain the battery.
They won't do it willingly. We'll have to help them over the bump...
What is considered “modern”?
Exactly. The answer is for all these AGW true believers to end themselves and leave everybody else alone. Think of all the carbon footprints that would go away.
Thorium power plants electrolyizing water into hydrogen to use in fuel cells.
Likewise. For our sake.
I can tell you China and a couple of European countries are seriously working to develop it for widespread use.
It will be very hard to compete if other developed countries operate with near zero energy costs, while we still are paying market oil/natgas prices.
Some very powerful inside-the-Beltway people have been standing in the way of this for decades.
Sadly, the US will probably be very late to the thorium party.
You need both.
Chrysler used to be linked with Daimler-Benz (a German company), but that was more than a decade ago.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) US LLC (commonly known as Chrysler) is the American subsidiary of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V., an Italian-American automobile manufacturer registered in the Netherlands with headquarters in London, U.K., for tax purposes. FCA US is one of the "Big Three" American automobile manufacturers.
Chrysler only identifies as an American Car Company.
they surely jest.
Leftist scum!
The Modern Automobile Must Die.. I AGREE!!
Bring back the Muscle Cars and Hot Rods of days past. These new cars suck.
Perhaps the state could move certain segments of the population around in boxcars. That sounds much more efficient. Then if they could concentrate densify them all in one place, give them jobs within marching distance, and keep them from moving about, that would be even better.
The Germans are an inventive and imaginative people. I’m sure they can work out the details.
I wonder what we are solving. Are we solving real climate change? If so, how much, when did it started? When will it end? How can we distinguish between natural climate change and man made climate change? Did man made climate change start when the last glaciation ended, about 10,000 years ago, or was it after Nixon became President?
Of course, if we are solving perceived climate change, then it becomes very easy. Construct whatever fantasy pleases you and go out there and solve it. See, that was easy.
I would bet not 1 in a 100 of libs knows the per cent of CO2 in the Earth’s zero-pollution atmosphere. I also bet, that the same number do not understand the term “Photosynthesis.”
the gas-powered automobile and the culture that surrounds it. The only question left is how to do it.
Aaaand the answer is socialism!
Wasn’t that easy kids?
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