[Newsbot]

Title: Andrew Scheer will formally support Pierre Poilievre in leadership race | National Post
Category: Political
Posted By: Scape
Date: 2022-03-04 22:52:49
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

Wow. I bet Poilievre is really glad he has Scheer's support.

[raydan]

If he wasn't before, Poilievre's a shoo-in now.

[Thanos]

Guaranteed majority win in the next election with that kind of endorsement! If he gets the same approval from other freedom-loving stalwarts like Ezra Levant, Chris Sky, Romana Didulo, and Theo Fleury then Polievre could win every seat in Parliament! wOOt!

[Scape]

Pierre Poilievre promises to scrap 'anti-energy laws' during CPC leadership campaign stop in Sask

[DrCaleb]

So he doesn't like electricity?

He is living up to my expectation of him as leader.

[Thanos]

Energy is old school conservative boilerplate. As a policy it never really loses. Plus this time around they have the evidence of what Germany moronically did to itself with renewables-over-nuclear to beat the living shit out of the solar/wind-uber-alles crowd. It's idiotic, everyone knows it, and drifting towards it in order to placate the hardest core of enviro-radicals is quite literally stupid beyond description for any cool-weather country to ever do. The German hypocrisy over getting gas from Russia and dramatically boosting their own coal production at the exact same time they attacked nuclear hasn't escaped anyone's notice either.

It's good to have all the ducks in a row for when Keystone gets re-approved someday. It won't happen under Biden but if the GQP wins in 2024 it's an automatic that it will be given the full go-ahead. Russia's malice changed the entire situation literally overnight. O&G are in ascension again, renewables are going nowhere fast, and the politicians got a good short sharp shock to remind them that they can't plan policy around what makes Greta Thunberg happy. Like that kid is ever happy about anything anyway.

All the other Tory candidates will say the same thing in short order. After watching O'Toole get whacked over his wishy-washy stance on carbon policy showed them all they have to stand firm and fully on the side of the Canadian O&G sector.

[DrCaleb]

Thanos Thanos:

Energy is old school conservative boilerplate. As a policy it never really loses. Plus this time around they have the evidence of what Germany moronically did to itself with renewables-over-nuclear to beat the living shit out of the solar/wind-uber-alles crowd. It's idiotic, everyone knows it, and drifting towards it in order to placate the hardest core of enviro-radicals is quite literally stupid beyond description for any cool-weather country to ever do. The German hypocrisy over getting gas from Russia and dramatically boosting their own coal production at the exact same time they attacked nuclear hasn't escaped anyone's notice either.

And yet the lesson they should be taking is that wind and solar power are growing faster than oil and gas are shrinking. Even in Germany.

Conservatives are supposed to cherish the free market, and the desire of the grass roots. And the grass roots wants renewable energy and electric vehicles, and the market is providing that. But Pollievre wants to outlaw kinetic energy, while GM, Toyota, and most other car manufacturers are ditching any new research on dino-burner engines.

Quebec offers the biggest rebate on EV's, while Alberta offers none.

[bootlegga]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Thanos Thanos:

Energy is old school conservative boilerplate. As a policy it never really loses. Plus this time around they have the evidence of what Germany moronically did to itself with renewables-over-nuclear to beat the living shit out of the solar/wind-uber-alles crowd. It's idiotic, everyone knows it, and drifting towards it in order to placate the hardest core of enviro-radicals is quite literally stupid beyond description for any cool-weather country to ever do. The German hypocrisy over getting gas from Russia and dramatically boosting their own coal production at the exact same time they attacked nuclear hasn't escaped anyone's notice either.

And yet the lesson they should be taking is that wind and solar power are growing faster than oil and gas are shrinking. Even in Germany.

Conservatives are supposed to cherish the free market, and the desire of the grass roots. And the grass roots wants renewable energy and electric vehicles, and the market is providing that. But Pollievre wants to outlaw kinetic energy, while GM, Toyota, and most other car manufacturers are ditching any new research on dino-burner engines.

Quebec offers the biggest rebate on EV's, while Alberta offers none.

Despite the lack of incentives, sales of EVs in Alberta are growing by double digit percentages by ICE vehicles are pretty much flat. Hybrid vehicles are growing also growing pretty rapidly. Alberta went from 377 EVs in 2017 to 3527 EVs in 2021. In the same period, hybrids increased by more than 60%.

The future is EV/hybrid, even if conservatives and older prairie residents don't like it.

The only question is going to be how we charge all of them. My guess thing is that they will be powered by a mix of energy, from natural gas to solar/wind to small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs). Both the federal and provincial governments are investing in R&D to figure them out.

The days of nations building massive nuclear reactors that cost $20 billion are behind us, but I seriously believe SMRs will be a big part of our energy generation mix in the future, at least until we can figure out fusion energy.

[Thanos]

Wonder what the average German homeowner who has to pay a utility bill of $1000 per month or more thinks of the grand shift towards total energy awesomeness. Even socialistic countries can push this sort of thing only so far before the individual citizen caught in the crossfire of a radical policy eventually buckles and then breaks down altogether.

[DrCaleb]

Except the average German household only pays 65 Euro per month for electricity now. As offshore wind and more solar come on line, that will only shrink.

You don't have to burn brown coal and pollute the environment for cheap electricity.

[herbie]

On the other hand, those of us who aren't 'enviro-radicals' will keep in mund the c**t has said he'll lift the North Coast tanker ban and endorse more pipelines.
That'll pretty much guarantee a tomato in the face if he ever ventures into Northern BC.
As stupid as he is backwards.

[Thanos]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

You don't have to burn brown coal and pollute the environment for cheap electricity.

Which was exactly my point.

[DrCaleb]

I got it.

Pollivere doesn't though.

[Thanos]

Poilievre knows his audience and is playing their favourite tune for them - conservatives now are like the sort of FM listener who absolutely loves it when Bohemian Rhapsody gets played ten times a day on every fucking radio station on the dial & are completely oblivious to how completely sick the rest of us are to hearing the same goddamn song over and over and over again ad nauseum. Poilievre's also part of the conservative strain that didn't give a damn about non-stop rate & price hikes inflicted on homeowners when utilities got privatized. All in all what he says means jack shit, like 90% of what comes out of any politician's filthy mouth. I've yet to see any real convincing evidence from either side that any of them care in the slightest about the non-stop rising costs of energy and how it's impacting the individual Canadian, especially when the inflation is a direct result of policy. Poilievre certainly doesn't care about so-called "natural" price hikes caused by market activity or price-gouging. And the left doesn't give a damn at all about how much it takes out of someone's pocket when a per-litre carbon tax gets raised - all you get out of any of them & their supporters is "good, it should be even higher because I hate anyone with a vehicle bigger than mine!".

We're all just minnows in a barrel to them, and they don't care at all about how red the water gets from the rubes bleeding out when their "policy" means a few new piranha get dropped into the container every once in a while.