Posted on 06/19/2017 12:31:04 PM PDT by reaganaut1
OSLO — On an unseasonably warm day in May, Norway’s climate minister, Vidar Helgesen, strolled through a vast parking lot for electric cars, counting Teslas.
“Two, three, four, five,” the minister marveled. And that was just one aisle.
There are big perks to buying a Tesla — or any electric car — in Norway. The government waives the high taxes it imposes on sales of other cars. It lets electric cars cruise up bus lanes. Toll roads are free. Parking lots like this one offer a free charge, and new charging stations are being built on the nation’s highways.
In fact, Norway hopes that only electric cars will be sold in the country by 2025 — a surprising goal, given that it means kicking the nation’s powerful oil industry in the shins.
But Norway’s big electric push on cars does not mean the nation is abandoning fossil fuels, revealing what critics call a notable contradiction in its climate policy.
Continue reading the main story While Norway wants to wean its own citizens off fossil fuels, it remains one of the world’s biggest oil producers and is revving up production, almost all of it for export. So even as the country tries to cut emissions and clean up its own carbon ledger at home, it is effectively doing the opposite abroad.
Spurred by attractive state subsidies, the Norwegian oil company Statoil is chasing after new oil and gas fields in the Arctic. Nearly all of the supply is destined for export — and to show up in the carbon emissions of countries that burn Norwegian oil and gas.
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So the Norwegians are all “green” in their own country, but are happy to sell oil to everyone else. They are hypocrites, and assuming they really believe their environmental propaganda, intentionally so.
Norway’s 937 hydropower stations provide 98% of the nation’s power. I wonder what their green wienies think about all those fish migration-killing dams?
The muzzies will pack a Tesla with explosives and run it into a crowd of people next.....maybe on Earth Day....
Don’t you mean...
“Erff Day”?
A linguistic cousin of “Uff Da!”
The government waives the high taxes it imposes on sales of other cars. It lets electric cars cruise up bus lanes. Toll roads are free. Parking lots like this one offer a free charge, and new charging stations are being built on the nation’s highways.
uhhhhh...for now.
There are other things too. gas is between 15-16 NOK per liter or about $6.50-7.00 per gallon. There are toll roads and tunnels all over and the secondary roads are narrow and have no shoulder. Many younger people do not have cars and most of the Tesla drivers are middle and older aged men. One of the most popular cars there is the Skoda, and it is a pretty nice car for the money.
Climate zealots in academia are the same bunch who brought kudzu, African bees, quack grass, and the Asian beetle to America to save us. Their batting averages ain’t so grand.
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