Posted on 03/27/2023 9:22:59 AM PDT by central_va
The European Union and Germany have reached an agreement that will allow combustion engines to continue to be used in new cars after 2035, but only with synthetic fuels, the 'e-fuels'.
The agreement reached will allow the countries of the European Union to approve the Euro 7 standard, presented by Brussels, which aims to accelerate the fight against climate change in Europe, with a drastic reduction in all harmful emissions into the atmosphere.
Once the new standard is approved, the European Commission will present a regulation that will allow companies in the automotive sector to continue to produce cars with combustion engines, provided that they use carbon-neutral fuels.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Any synthetic fuel introduces additional steps into the processing which adds carbon emissions to the engine.
Whatever man, you do you Germany, make it complicated if you must.
Let China invade.
Then, I’ll go to China.
Probably not, but they are not liberals.
Henry Ford preferred alcohol.
John D. Rockefeller, under the ruse of Christian temperance, gave 4 million dollars to a group of old ladies and told them to fight for Prohibition (they successfully used the money to buy off Congress). Why? Rockefeller owned Standard Oil, the main company pushing gas as an alternative fuel to alcohol.
It is almost impossible to even find anything desireable with under 200,000 miles
the internet isn't help much either. Everyone "knows what they got" now and may as well throw that "blue Book" in the trash. Its like inflationary Mass Hysteria
And now you know, the rest of the story.
Oh, well, then our fossil fuels will have a great demand in THEIR black market.
I thought these Leftist idiots in D.C. had also created some kind of stupid deadline around the same timeframe to eliminate fossil fuel consumption.
EU insanity - bump for later.....
Complete and utter b.s.
Anything that burns produces co2
And net zero is their whole excuse.
No diff if synthetic or not.
Strawmen aplenty in these nuts field.
2035 is only 12 years away. Capital investment of the magnitude require to significantly enhance energy product (renewable or fossil) is made with a 20-50 years time horizon. Land acquisition, permitting, overcoming legal challenges, and actual construction on major projects can easily take a decade. If it isn’t on the drawing board today, and funded within the next 2-3 years, it probably won’t happen by 2035.
Given what happened to the Keystone pipeline, would you invest money in a synthetic fuel manufacturing facility?
These Eurotrash idiots are going to need another war to get their minds right.
Just like the synthetic foods they want to force feed us, and it won’t be any better for our engines than fake food is for people.
They never learned from baby formula and hydrogenated vegetable oil.
But then how can I be sure that my dealer is being honest with me when he keeps offering me "110% of bluebook value" for my five year old pick-up?
https://www.efuel-alliance.eu/efuels
It’s a reincarnation of Fischer–Tropsch used by Nazis to make fuel out of coal.
Given enough electricity it can be done by making hydrogen and reducing carbon dioxide to make hydrocarbons.
The electricity part is the hard one. Maybe put a lot of geothermal plants in Iceland?
Or if fusion could actually work on an industrial scale this would be viable.
And much less damaging to the environment than battery powered everything.
I could install one of those on my truck bed...anyone have any plans for a wood/gas convertor....Thanks in advance.
Energy resents being stored and will escape confinement whenever and wherever possible, often with disastrous consequences. That’s why fossil fuels are such a miracle. Because Nature already has taken energy created in the sun’s fusion reactor, snatched it out of the sky, buried it in the ground, and then in a process that takes millennia, transformed it into a (relatively) stable and easy to transport form that’s free to anyone possessed of the enterprise to dig it up.
Because of the efficiency inherent in sourcing your energy in a pre-packaged form (done at zero cost to you), you will never surpass its economy except through processes that create energy on a scale orders of magnitude greater than fossil fuels, and there’s nothing known to man that fits that bill except nuclear.
Fossil fuels, or nuclear. Anything else is a waste of time, money, and effort.
Not just America, people.
They hate people.
12 years away is a long time for people to realize the error of their ways. Infrastructure doesn’t take that long to build or to resurrect. The biggest policy change is not building again or restarting; it’s the changes in mind that the climate idiots will undergo or will be forced to make, because their policies will kill many economies and create poverty world-wide and people will revolt in numbers that the climate change idiots will have to notice..
Lol They know no one wants battery crap that would kill companies like Ferrari and Lamborghini
Not America. Just We the People. The “unwashed tax-chattal” in it.
This!!!
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