Yes, well I haven't commented on the AGW issue and don't want to, I began investigating that over a decade ago on pods like RadioEcoshock where the caster interviewed the leading scientific minds on the planet. Real scientists, not political scientists, the sort of men and women who would never be allowed in front of a camera lol. Anyway it became a totally devise issue, as one would expect from something so important, it even became a major division between the the American political parties, and many weather related websites I frequented closed down their subs on the issue or went off-line all together. On many the rules are specific, you are NOT to discuss it.
Now we just had one of the oddest summers here, daytime temps were not that high by historical measures but humidity was greater and overnight lows beat all records. It was quite uncomfortable though being a man who hedges his bets I had a lot of A/C installed here and a lot of solar. I also have a cool room downstairs with an old 'window-rattler' aircon unit and a 2kVA Honda to run it if I want. I never did Boy Scouts but I adhere to their motto. This business of global warming though was instrumental in masking the real issue with cars, oil depletion, or the peak of oil production. That was the topic in the 2000's and it had a lot of traction. it was the original push for solar wind and EV long before AGW went mainstream and it's still the major issue to my mind. Frack oil and all that crap was simply a smoke and mirrors game, never made a red cent for the companies and had little effect on the price of oil which had already collapsed after the great recession.
But oil depletion is still a real thing and conventional oil production globally is well down. Unconventional? When you look into Gas you discover that the "oil equivalents" that they count as oil mostly goes into making plastic bags because that's all it's good for. The actual oil is good for cars, not Diesel, but comes out at great cost, millions of tons of sand trucked in, and chemicals, and endless holes because they tap out quickly. If it was the bonanza they had promised gasoline would be cheap like in the 1990's and before. 2040 at current rates of consumption is what they predicted would be the point at which oil would be all gone! But of course we haven't stayed at those levels and as time passes our consumption will decline and people struggling to just put food on the table and pay their rent will turn in their keys. It's hard for us here to see this because we are all relatively wealthy but go talk to an average Sri Lanken and you'll get a better picture.
France offers citizens EUR 4,000 grants to switch from cars to bikes. The country aims to boost the numbers of its citizens using bicycles to get to work and move around to 9% by 2024.
French transition
What's going on there? Fear of global warming? Simply put, when they buy oil abroad money flows out of the French economy, lotz of money. They clearly are finding it cheaper to give people thousands to stop burning it. It's the same reason I believe the Western Europeans were happy to see the energy flows from Russia curtailed. The politicians, not the people! Energy moves West but money must move East and their debt mired economies would have to give up buying it in the future anyway so why not start now and blame the austerity on the Russians rather than their own corrupt and inefficient economies.
That's how the world really works, the stuff people are fed on TV is just to keep them quiet and consuming. keep them quietly toiling in the factories and offices and investing their life savings into whatever the current bubble is being promoted. Of course if you've spent your life sitting in front of one, being told what to think at every level, how could you possible believe any of that. But some people are starting to wake up, and that's dangerous,
for them, because they tend to think that having an awareness that they have been dumbed down all their lives, now somehow makes them smart...
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