Posted on 08/21/2022 11:04:42 PM PDT by conservative98
An Australian bank announced this week that it will stop funding loans for new gas and diesel cars in 2025 to encourage the shift to electric vehicles.
"We think that the responsible thing for us to do next, is to ensure that our vehicle lending doesn’t lock our customers in to higher carbon emissions and increasingly expensive running costs in the years ahead," Bank Australia Chief Impact Officer Sasha Courville said in a statement on Friday.
"Ultimately, our announcement today is the beginning of a conversation with our customers and a signal to the wider market that if you’re considering buying a new car, you should think seriously about an electric vehicle – both for its impact on the climate and for its lifetime cost savings."
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What do you expect from a former prison colony?
you’ve had inmates running the asylum for a lonnnng time over there
Leftists love to talk about starting conversations. They define conversation as "I will tell you what you do and you will listen and comply".
Never heard of them. Probably trying to eek out a little niche for themselves amongst the useful idiots
It isn’t a ‘conversation’ when you’ve already made the decision to meddle with their lifestyle choices.
It’s hard to know where to start with this nonsense.
Electric cars must be recharged. Australia is one of the WORST candidates to impose such fascism upon its people and their transportation because of the vast distances between populated areas.
It won’t be very long before lunatics like this will be chased down and locked up for their attempt to impose a completely unworkable and absurd lie upon the Australian people.
As Neil Oliver’s wife said, “This is not about ‘GOING GREEN.’ It is about GOING WITHOUT.”
You will stay home. Be poor. Do only what you are told to do. Your life will be miserable and your personal dreams and objectives will have no more meaning than they had for legions of hopeless people during the Dark Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire.
Still love that movie.
These are the plans of godless people who believe the Earth is a false idol to be worshipped and was not created by Almighty God to be under the control, use and domain of the people He created to inhabit it.
These godless people who demand this control will never THEMSELVES live the miserable existence they desire for others to have. These elites will always have what THEY want until the angry hordes rise up and destroy these wicked tyrants and reclaim the world as their gift from God and their domain under God’s stated plan.
Yep. Freedom and the right to self-determine have to be fought for.
That’s a great way to put it, and exactly what I’ve warned about; as our jobs were sent to Asia, it was inevitable that those workers would want the standard of living of Western workers - and the only way to deny them would be to reduce our standard of living. They won’t provide private automobiles, detached single-family homes, etc. to all of those workers, so they have to take them from us (and that is already underway).
May Australia’s (and Canada’s, for that matter) chains rest lightly.
This is ESG. The Great Reset has begun. Less than a year before it’s starts here.
Australia is “free” in the sense that Canada is; they are subjects of a foreign monarch who presides over a socialist (by definition UNfree) empire.
Clive James once quipped
“The problem with Aussies is not that so many are descended from convicts – it’s that so many are descended from prison officers.”
It's here to stay.
This is how they're going to force everyone to buy electric cars.
Can you say Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance Score?
Score too low and investment films like Blackrock and Vanguard won't touch you. This is how they force corporations to embrace positions that aren't political popular (they'll be coming for guns as well).
They're going to force electric vehicles on us kicking and screaming, whether we want them or not. If you want to own a private car, and not be forced to take a bus full of feral to work every morning, this is how they're going to make you buy electric.
This stuff isn't going away. It's only going to spread.
Good luck with that model.
The other banks will pick up the slack and they will lose tons of money.
I wonder how long this virtue signal will last?
It’s customer owned, right?
And looks like their call center is experiencing difficulties.
Note to owner/customers: Smooth move.
Because the government has been so successful in picking out the winning industries in the past. The u.s. has chosen electric vehicles and taking the money from workers to bet on it. Screw the invisible hand, /s
THIS is the reason why Tesla when from zero market cap to a $1 Trillion market cap Eben though they had little revenue. Those “in the know” and politically connected knew this was coming.
Criminal.
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