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Norway Agrees On Banning New Sales Of Gas-Powered Cars By 2025: Report (electrek.co)
If you live in Norway, an all-electric future is likely closer than you think. The country's four leading political parties have agreed to a plan to stop selling gas-powered cars by 2025, according to a report. Electrek reports: The four main political parties, both from the right and the left, have agreed on a new energy policy that will include a ban on new gasoline-powered car sales as soon as 2025 -- making it one of the most aggressive timeline of its kind for such a policy. What's probably most remarkable here is that Norway is currently one of the world's largest Oil exporters.Tesla CEO Elon Musk was rather pleased with the announcement. He said, "Just heard that Norway will ban new sales of fuel cars in 2025. What an amazingly awesome country. You guys rock!!"
I have a different WTF - WTF is the EU flag doing as the Slashdot icon for a story about Norway? Norway isn't part of the EU - precisely because it has all that wonderful cash from oil exports.
Norway is the only country I've ever seem where socialism is sustainable - forever spending more than your tax revenue works great if you have another source of revenue to make up the difference! (If only Iraq had been set up with the same model - thongs might have gone very differently there.) Of course, they won't have a bright future if everyone stops buying that oil.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Business man praises those responsible for banning his competition. Film at 11.
that aren't banned thinks it's a great idea. How about letting his cars win on value instead of legislation?
That won't work, because Musk has an inferior product and a higher price. We need the government to force the issue.
If only Iraq had been set up with the same model - thongs might have gone very differently there.
Well if it had worked in Iran when they tried Iraq might have followed after, you should read up on what happened there.
To sum it up, some bad guys didn't like the idea of a socialist utopia in Iran so the staged a coup that led to the shithole Iran is today.
As for your comment on sustainable socialism you clearly have a very narrow idea of what socialism is that doesn't include most functional socialism in the world.
They're doing what the Saudis are doing, laying the groundwork for the post-fossil fuel age. The Koch Brothers may be funding psuedoskepticism, and there may be lots of people who believe AGW is an evil lie designed by Satan and/or Communists, but countries like Norway and Saudi Arabia, major oil producers that they are, know very well that sooner or later, and likely sometime after the middle of this century, the Age of Oil is going to come to an end.
Norway is also one of those smarter states who has been stowing away oil revenues, unlike, say Venezuela and Alberta, and the Saudis are following suit with their own sovereign wealth fund, the largest in history.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
forever spending more than your tax revenue works great if you have another source of revenue to make up the difference!
No matter how much money you earn from whatever source it's always possible to live beyond your means. For example, just because you have lots of oil revenue doesn't mean that you can be undisciplined in how you spend and re-invest it. That's why Venezuela, which should be a rich country with such enormous reserves of oil, is instead experiencing extreme poverty with shortages of electricity, clean water, food, toilet paper, medicine and just about everything else that people need and want. It's unscientific Socialism run amok. The Norwegians on the other hand are smart, well educated and disciplined whereas the Venezuelans are generally none of those things. What a difference that makes.
> Are you implying that electric cars don't do well in the cold? Because if you are, you're misinformed. Li Ion based batteries do poorly in heat, but the cold doesn't bother them anywhere near as much as the heat does. Also, Tesla basically has a cooling/heating system just for the batteries
By installing a battery heater in their California model cars, is Tesla implying that li-ion batteries don't do well in the cold? If they are, they're misinformed - or you are.
The chemists who make the batteries say that lithium-ion loses 40% of it's capacity at -4F and shouldn't be subjected to any lower temperature even when not being used.
race-to-the-bottom capitalism works, until there's no new markets (all the wealth is in the hands of the wealthy, and the poor throngs have no money to spend. The rich can't spend money fast enough, and the poor, well, they can just eat cake), then things end up like Somalia. So, enjoy it while it lasts.
I'm willing to bet that the 'resolution' is like a lot of resolutions - full of sound and fury, but set so far in the future that it can be quietly 'forgotten' by everybody but a few extremists, and the new administration, not feeling bound by what their predecessors promised, can either disclaim the resolution or push it back. "Sorry, technology didn't progress quite as fast as they hoped".
There will probably also be huge gaping loopholes. To use the USA as an example, "commercial trucks" were, and in many cases still are, exempt from some of the more stringent pollution and mileage requirements.
One problem that this caused is that the mileage requirements actually drove more people to drive trucks - that could have the abilities they were looking for. So in some ways, the EPA requirements actually drove increased gasoline usage, because the different layers of regulation drove some people to drive less fuel efficient vehicles.
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They're doing what the Saudis are doing, laying the groundwork for the post-fossil fuel age. The Koch Brothers may be funding psuedoskepticism, and there may be lots of people who believe AGW is an evil lie designed by Satan and/or Communists, but countries like Norway and Saudi Arabia, major oil producers that they are, know very well that sooner or later, and likely sometime after the middle of this century, the Age of Oil is going to come to an end.
Norway is also one of those smarter states who has been stowing away oil revenues, unlike, say Venezuela and Alberta, and the Saudis are following suit with their own sovereign wealth fund, the largest in history.
To add to your excellent post:
“The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.” -- Sheikh Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian oil minister '62-'86
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