Of course Germany put the kibosh on any restrictions on C02 production. They’ve ramped up their coal industry to supply the power plants that need to run to replace the electricity capacity lost by shuttering their nuclear reactors.
Don’t just take it from me, take it from the horses mouth: Black Gold from the Lausitz
Meanwhile in Ontario, the endgame of the Dulton:Gaia love fest still seems delayed as ratepayers and taxpayers sell electricity at 2.4 cents/kWh that they bought, via the Green Energy Act Feed In Tariff program for 13.5 cents/kWh
Dulton you magnificent bastard, you didn’t read the book!
It is supposed to be Buy LOW, Sell HIGH.
What, are you dyslexic? http://opinion.financialpost.com/2013/06/27/ontarios-power-trip-mcguintys-bigger-debacle/
For the Liberal left it’s as simple as Merkle suggested would happen, they just need to move their car manufacturing facilities over to Indian & Chinese sweat shops and poof “problem solved”.
It is informative that the successful economies do not want limits on carbon while those countries that have killed their own economies want to stick Germany in the heart.
You didn’t expect them to solve their pollution problems, did you? That would take ingenuity, what the leftists do not have. Just put the factories out of mind, out of sight. Problem (kind of) solved.
It’s simply what I’ve been saying for years. All of the international emissions protocols/treaties/agreements are nothing more than attempts to handicap commercial competitors.
Notice Fred there are just 16 comments on Gallant’s excellent analysis, which will cost us a fortune as individuals, yet if it is an article on Ford or Harper there are hundreds of posts. Financial disaster, yawn….
From the article —
The agreement foresees the reduction of a company’s fleet-wide CO2 emissions from 130 grams to 95 grams per kilometer by 2020.
From Autoevolution
in 2010
// It looks like the automotive industry’s efforts to protect the environment are showing results, as the average new car CO2 emissions figure decreased by 5.4 percent (year on year) in the first quarter of 2010, reaching 145.6 g/km.
The industry is currently on the road to bring the average CO2 emissions figure to 130 g/km by the end of next year, targeting a 5 percent yearly reduction. //
Which they apparently did. But back in 2010, a problem was looming —
// there are currently three mainstream manufacturers who’s range falls bellow the EU 2012 target of 130 grams per km. These are Toyota (124.55 g/km), Fiat (124.61 g/km) and Mini (129.98 g/km). They are followed closely by Hyundai, who posted a figure of 131.02 g/km.
[…]
At the other end of the scale, we find the German premium automaker Mercedes, who has an average CO2 emissions figure of 173.83 g/km, over 20 g/km inferior to those posted by rivals Audi and BMW.
“Car manufacturers talk about the “glidepath” – the rate of decline needed to get from where they are today to where they need to be in 2012. Any mainstream manufacturer with a figure of much over 140 g/km of CO2 is going to have to work very hard to get their average down, while the big premium brands need to be in shouting distance of 150 g/km,” stated the press release
[…]
For comparison UN on Canada – 2011
In April 2010, Canada issued a draft regulation to limit GHG emissions from passenger cars and light trucks from model year 2011 to 2016. The […]Canadian government anticipates that the average GHG emission performance of the 2016 Canadian fleet of new cars and light trucks would match the average level of 153 gCO2/km (169 gCO2/km under NEDC [EU] cycle. This would represent an approximate 20 per cent reduction compared to the new vehicle fleet that was sold in Canada in 2007.
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Not all German cars are in this fix. The 2013 VW Golf TDI [diesel] emits 85 gCO2/km.
Heh. That confirms it, another MB product for me; perhaps the reasonably priced CLA 45 AMG when it arrives.
Of course Germany put the kibosh on any restrictions on C02 production. They’ve ramped up their coal industry to supply the power plants that need to run to replace the electricity capacity lost by shuttering their nuclear reactors.
Don’t just take it from me, take it from the horses mouth: Black Gold from the Lausitz
Meanwhile in Ontario, the endgame of the Dulton:Gaia love fest still seems delayed as ratepayers and taxpayers sell electricity at 2.4 cents/kWh that they bought, via the Green Energy Act Feed In Tariff program for 13.5 cents/kWh
Dulton you magnificent bastard, you didn’t read the book!
It is supposed to be Buy LOW, Sell HIGH.
What, are you dyslexic?
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2013/06/27/ontarios-power-trip-mcguintys-bigger-debacle/
For the Liberal left it’s as simple as Merkle suggested would happen, they just need to move their car manufacturing facilities over to Indian & Chinese sweat shops and poof “problem solved”.
It is informative that the successful economies do not want limits on carbon while those countries that have killed their own economies want to stick Germany in the heart.
You didn’t expect them to solve their pollution problems, did you? That would take ingenuity, what the leftists do not have. Just put the factories out of mind, out of sight. Problem (kind of) solved.
It’s simply what I’ve been saying for years. All of the international emissions protocols/treaties/agreements are nothing more than attempts to handicap commercial competitors.
Notice Fred there are just 16 comments on Gallant’s excellent analysis, which will cost us a fortune as individuals, yet if it is an article on Ford or Harper there are hundreds of posts. Financial disaster, yawn….
From the article —
The agreement foresees the reduction of a company’s fleet-wide CO2 emissions from 130 grams to 95 grams per kilometer by 2020.
From Autoevolution
in 2010
// It looks like the automotive industry’s efforts to protect the environment are showing results, as the average new car CO2 emissions figure decreased by 5.4 percent (year on year) in the first quarter of 2010, reaching 145.6 g/km.
The industry is currently on the road to bring the average CO2 emissions figure to 130 g/km by the end of next year, targeting a 5 percent yearly reduction. //
Which they apparently did. But back in 2010, a problem was looming —
// there are currently three mainstream manufacturers who’s range falls bellow the EU 2012 target of 130 grams per km. These are Toyota (124.55 g/km), Fiat (124.61 g/km) and Mini (129.98 g/km). They are followed closely by Hyundai, who posted a figure of 131.02 g/km.
[…]
At the other end of the scale, we find the German premium automaker Mercedes, who has an average CO2 emissions figure of 173.83 g/km, over 20 g/km inferior to those posted by rivals Audi and BMW.
“Car manufacturers talk about the “glidepath” – the rate of decline needed to get from where they are today to where they need to be in 2012. Any mainstream manufacturer with a figure of much over 140 g/km of CO2 is going to have to work very hard to get their average down, while the big premium brands need to be in shouting distance of 150 g/km,” stated the press release
[…]
For comparison UN on Canada – 2011
In April 2010, Canada issued a draft regulation to limit GHG emissions from passenger cars and light trucks from model year 2011 to 2016. The […]Canadian government anticipates that the average GHG emission performance of the 2016 Canadian fleet of new cars and light trucks would match the average level of 153 gCO2/km (169 gCO2/km under NEDC [EU] cycle. This would represent an approximate 20 per cent reduction compared to the new vehicle fleet that was sold in Canada in 2007.
+
Not all German cars are in this fix. The 2013 VW Golf TDI [diesel] emits 85 gCO2/km.
Heh. That confirms it, another MB product for me; perhaps the reasonably priced CLA 45 AMG when it arrives.