If this happens, it will be a gift of the EU to the owners of VW, Mercedes, BMW and the likes.

You can look those owners up on financial sites or Wikipedia. A large part are family offices representing insanely rich individuals who's only merit is being heirs to founders of above companies. They will be rewarded for lack of innovation, terrible engineering and investing in non-starters like hydrogen. It will also sabotage the clean energy transition and push Europe further back towards the status of shithole countries.

I would not be surprised if it happens though since above mentioned rich family offices certainly have good cronies in Brussels.

This sounds like accusing Deepseek of espionage. Disingenuous. Most of the stuff has been accessible in academic research papers for years, all they did is iterate and improve on previous research.

Per Occam's razor, the most likely link to politics is the investment into STEM education in the respective countries.

I'm not a fan of military invasions either, but bringing military, one-party systems, and ethnic minorities into this discussion doesn't help. What would help is for other countries to look at what China does right, copy that and don't do what they do wrong. Simple.

We need to know with some high degree of certainty that digging out oil, coal, gas and burning it will not have a serious impact on atmospheric CO2 levels, global temperatures, the cryosphere, ocean pH and survival of many species.

Ideally, before we do that on a large scale.

Oh wait...

Vote out Danielle Smith.

Your electricity bill is going up because she subsidizes her cronies in the oil&gas business with your money and by sabotaging renewables projects.

Thus sabotaging the climate and probably pushing it beyond a point of no return.

https://www.reuters.com/world/...

She should be fired on the spot and criminally prosecuted.

... those projects, even if they may not yet be *quite* profitable yet.

If we can have 6 cables, then we can also have 60, or hundreds of them in the future. And
maybe shorter ones are sufficient.

To all the haters ranting about vulnerability: You're just expired oil&gas shills. Because oil&gas infrastructure
is just as vulnerable or more, and the source countries are amongst the worst of the world. In case you missed
it, we need to shut down oil&gas as fast as possible.

Each and every project providing alternatives is welcome, as it will displace some oil&gas.
Especially if private investors are paying.

And by the way, extend this to millions of other species of plants and animals on the planet whose bodies are *also* designed for 280 ppm.

Literally nothing in 'clean and healthful environment' is nebulous.

The human body is designed for a CO2 ppm of ca. 280 in the air it breathes.

Whoever changes the composition of the air should be required to demonstrate that the changed composition is 'clean and healthful' with such change being applied.

Hard to demonstrate that? Not at all either. Just do a randomised controlled trial, where group A is exposed to 280ppm and group B to 420 ppm.

RCT studies are expensive? --> Boo-hoo. How can we be so mean to the poor shareholders of an industry subsidised to the tune of 7 trillion annually.

Keep in mind that 2024 will very likely be amongst the coolest within the next millenia.

Thank you so much, Exxon, Shell, Saudi Aramco etc.

Source for that? Not that I doubt it, but I think it may even be worse than that.

Actually, *we don't know*, and I find that quite a mind-boggling elephant in the room.

Sitting in badly ventilated rooms is one thing. But to the best of my knowledge, there are no studies on the effects of long-term exposure (as in, whole life) to elevated CO2 levels of the human organism (nor *any* organism).

But hey, let's worry about the effects of solar panels or wind power plants on the 'readability' of landscapes.

Since you seem to know more than the IEA, please do enlighten us with your insights.

Because those uninformed suckers seem to think that "Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’". https://www.carbonbrief.org/so... (already in 2020, and since then panel prices have come down significantly).

My personal opinion: The Texan oil&gas industry is already a zombie and only living on due to MASSIVE subsidies, destroying the future of your and my children for a few more years to come.

In other jurisdictions, this would be called market manipulation?

This money will benefit (1) Intel senior management and maybe a bit (2) INTC shareholders. Can't see any (3).

Wondering how much say did (1) have in the decision of the government.

Obviously difficult and agreed that we need to reduce demand too (the effort is well on its way btw).

There are ways to align foreign entities with your policies. Sanctions, confiscation of assets, etc. See FCPA.

Many countries are thinning out the supply of drugs, to varying degrees of success.

CO2 in the atmosphere is orders of magnitudes more damaging than drugs, because:
1) It affects millions of species rather than just one.
2) It affects all individuals of those species rather than a small minority.
3) Its effect lasts for thousands of years.

Oh, and let's stop subsidizing oil and gas to the tune of trillions per year, shall we? Because that money goes directly into the pockets of said Saudis, Russians and Venezoelans.

Speaking of priorities...

Agreed on treating all uses equally. The atmosphere doesn't care about BTC. It cares about CO2 andCH4.

But: No taxes are needed.

Just start ramping down or stop new exploration / drilling permits.

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    stopCharging();
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You're welcome.