Don't worry, they won't shut off the taps. All just political posturing. While there will always be some oil needed but it is time we stop investing more into expanding oil business, this industry is winding down, it must or our planet will pay a horrible price. The sooner we embrace this necessary change the better. We as a rich nation need to march up front. Imagine Canada, US and the EU would ban combustion engines for all road vehicles and pleasure boats by say 2025. You know how fast manufacturers would crank out alternatives and have them mass ready and competitively priced in 7 years? You just have to have some balls and a vision beyond your 4 year term as a politician!
What's stopping you today? Power boating and sport fishing are luxury recreation, not a necessity you could stop it today. There's probably more arguments for stopping than against if you want to think about it, environmental, health of stocks, SRKW's etc...... EV's that meet 98% of your needs are available for a fair price today, do you drive one? Now this is the part where you talk about how you're the exception to giving up ICE's and how EV's won't work for your special circumstances, and boating is "just my thing and I'm not giving it up". It's been repeated on here by the most vocal energy industry critics dozens of times when they've been asked if they put their money where there mouths are. Consider that whatever justification you use for maintaining your current lifestyle over the green dream mentioned above it's shared by 7 billion others, that's why EV's don't sell despite covering 98% of peoples needs. If we don't export oil, does that mean potential customers don't buy it, or will they just buy it from someone else? Are the other places they want to buy from our friends, Russia, Venezuela, Middle East etc......?
Imagine Canada, US and the EU would ban combustion engines for all road vehicles and pleasure boats by say 2025.
Can you help me understand the logistics of this? Let's walk through implementing it, help me understand a few things in your plan;
Not everyone is rich, how do people in the lower end of the income scale fit in? Is the government giving away new cars?
What source is the energy needed going to come from?
There's currently over 275 million vehicles on the road in Canada and the US alone, explain how scrapping them all and replacing with EV's that are yet to be built (forget about the auto factories or the raw materials needed for the motors or battery packs) will lower overall carbon emissions.
What do we do with the 275 million now scrap vehicles, what's the carbon impact of scrapping them and who's going to pay?
Who will pay for the infrastructure needed to support these vehicles?
How will this affect the cost of consumer goods when you consider the trucking industry?
A move like that would shut down the oil sector in Canada, how will that revenue and those jobs be replaced?
The biggest one, people don't want it, including you or you'd be doing it already so how will you get the public support needed? You have 7 years and multiple Federal, Provincial, and State administrations and their constituents to get on the same page. When I stand on a street corner in Vancouver and watch cars go by paying attention to ICE's vs EV's and number of occupants it shows reality.
There's lots more challenges but I think that's enough to discuss at this point.
Sorry, I'm not picking on you just trying to get people to think beyond the feel good to the reality. Clint if you wanted to address any of the implementation questions feel free. Reading these platitudes with no substance behind them triggers me more than when someone assumes my gender! lol Also don't forget Canada is less than 2% of global emissions, we can't change **** no matter what we do, you're barking up he wrong tree.
