Posted on 12/05/2022 7:57:54 AM PST by Erik Latranyi
Switzerland is considering banning electric vehicles for non-essential travel this winter as the continent deals with an energy crisis sparked by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The Telegraph reported that government officials have already drafted plans to conserve energy that could include limiting heat in buildings to no more than 68 degrees Fahrenheit and reducing the number of hours stores can be open.
Stricter measures could be enacted, including banning large indoor gatherings like sporting events, concerts, and theatre events, the report said.
Switzerland relies heavily on hydroelectric power, which constitutes nearly two-thirds of its energy supply, the excess of which it exports during the time of year that it can generate the most electricity from rain and snowfall, the report said. It then typically is forced to import energy during the rest of the year as its nuclear resources, which it has been working to phase out, and its fossil fuel resources are not enough to meet demand.
The country has created a two-tier system for dealing with the energy shortage: emergency and crisis.
When in the “emergency” tier, there are three levels of restrictions, and in the “crisis” tier, there are two levels.
Electric vehicles would face restrictions in the third level of the emergency tier.
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Funny. Maybe they will get Tesla and others to turn them off remotely to ensure compliance?
and there it is.
Oh, banning. At first, I thought it said burning.
How about banning the ban on fertilizer ,LOL
This is rich!
So, if France and Germany ban the gas car, lots of luck traveling in Europe. Back to horse and buggy? Or will they eliminate that too because “too much nitrogen emission”?
The truth behind idiot liberal unicorn thinking is starting to trickle out...
WOO WOO !!!
I’d take the blue pill…
-Cypher
“Environmentalism fails because while they are great at banning things, they have no idea how to replace that which was banned.”
Absolutely right. “ban, ban ban” is all we ever hear from them. They NEVER answer “then what comes next?” Or if they do answer, it is a wet dream impossibility.
How the USA went from a real can-do spirit that could build anything in record time to a “do nothing and tear down what we have” mentality is a great mystery. Too much ease, material prosperity, government welfare, and leisure time allowed children to never grow up and be serious about the world around them. Our great success planted the seeds of our own destruction.
Back to horse and buggy?
Nope the horses will be food for the starving
Uhhh, no.
Communism is great at taking wealth, only mediocre so so at ‘redistributing’ it.
Environmentalism fails because while they are great at banning things, they have no idea how to replace that which was banned.Don't underestimate their intent.
They have no desire to replace what they've banned. They would simply ban the replacement.
Cultural decay.
Notice that we no longer produce any great art, music or cinema?
Notice that scientific achievements are few and far between?
Notice how we are reducing the value of human life?
This all comes from a cultural decay.
First of all, most people can’t afford to buy an EV
Now they may not be allowed to drive them
But Government still demands that by 2035, all auto sales will be EV
got that?
RE: then typically is forced to import energy during the rest of the year as its nuclear resources, which it has been working to phase out, and its fossil fuel resources are not enough to meet demand.
Why are they working to phase out nuclear energy — One of the least greenhouse gas emitting source there is? Isn’t their problem self-inflicted?
“Cultural decay.” — result of too much success leading to too much time for frivolity, lack of seriousness about life and survival, and fatal complacency.
It didn’t turn out the way John Quincy Adams anticipated: “I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.”
Turns out his grandson became a marxist bent on overthrowing all the good his grandfather did.
Time for a “Ha ha” picture from the Simpsons.
In other words, leftard idiots. They put the “mental” in “environmental”.
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