The Big Smoke and fossil fuel ads

Toronto takes step toward ban on misleading fossil fuel ads, following TTC move

Because of course they are. From the Canadian Press

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Alberta government proposing additional restrictions on wind and solar energy

20 Replies to “The Big Smoke and fossil fuel ads”

Good. Energy producers should stop wasting money. Tobacco and alcohol money is not needed either. Killed Symphony of Fire and the Indy. Kill joys. GFY’s.

Hydrocarbons.

If they’re really fossil fuels then show me the DNA profile.

Cut them off cold turkey, all the eastern cities.

Buddy says:

October 14, 2024 at 5:48 pm

Gasoline comes in a pipeline from Montreal.

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“misinformation” is a euphemism for censorship. These so-called “misleading” ads that the councils in the respective cities want to ban essentially bans *ALL* ads advocating for fossil fuels.
They just stuck the word “misleading” in their motions to *mislead* the public (irony intended) on what they are really trying to do, which is to “nudge” the public into accepting a policy that *goes against* the public’s interest!

Yes, WE ARE dealing with communist tyrants, but Canadians, especially in urban centers, continues to sleep in regard to the ongoing threat.

It would be fun for the west to ban all fossil fuel exports to the east. Let’s see how long the east, who shows remarkable disdain for “fossil” fuels, can last without it.

fraizer says:

October 14, 2024 at 4:48 pm

Advertising almost by definition is misinformation. One very famous ad agency used to call themselves Half-Web, making fun of Jack Webb’s line in Dragnet of “Just the facts, ma’am” (a line he never actually used). Well, we’ll give you half the facts – The half we want you to hear.

But seriously, the energy companies need to come out with some cold fact ads like how many lives saved due to reliable heat. How many lives saved due to water and wastewater systems made possible by hydrocarbon fuels. How many every day items are derived from hydrocarbons from antiseptics to their Zoom call.

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1. Lupus solus says:
  
  October 14, 2024 at 5:09 pm
  
  All the benefits have been known for decades, even longer, but the greenie cultists are oblivious to facts.
  
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Ban asphalt roads. Hell lets ban everything but stone tools because that is exactly where all this crap is heading.
There is no possible way to support the world population without cheap plentiful energy, and there is no fuc~~~~ way to get cheap energy without oil.

l love Justin says:

October 14, 2024 at 4:52 pm

noooooo kidding.
-no synthetic fibres allowed anywhere
-no natural fibres harvested or manufactured or
delivered in ANY measure by fossil fuel machinery
-big fat ZERO plastics anywhere
-NO medicines, foodstuffs produced from or by hydrocarbons
– etc etc 100s examples like WTF????

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So oil companies can’t make woke green ads? No loss.

Incredibly useful product that nobody can live without. Why do they even need advertising?

Let the eastern batards freeze in the dark. I am unfortunately in an eastern part of Canada. Packing my bags now to move west.

This advertising ban has shades of nazi propaganda rules during WWII.

.“The motion suggested an ad could still be accepted if it’s consistent with the city’s net-zero emission plan and complies with new federal rules. The anti-greenwashing rules added to the Competition Act in June put the onus on advertisers to back up their environmental claims.”

Greenwashing ?
Green cars are seldom seen these days, whereas white, black, and grey vehicles are consistent with government emissions.

If you choose to believe the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change, as Toronto claims to do, you will find that “For every 1000 GtCO2 emitted by human activity, global surface temperature rises annually by 0.45°C…” This translates to 0.45°C / 1000 Gt / MT = 0.00000045°C / Megatonne (Mt).

Toronto’s total annual emissions are roughly 15 Megatonnes. Let’s do some simple arithmetic. (If you are a recent graduate from Canada’s school system, you’ll have to trust me or to find a mathematically literate individual – engineers are a good choice!)

15Mt °C / yr x 0.00000045°C / Mt = 0.00000675°C / yr. Stated differently, Toronto’s TOTAL emissionds impact global temperature by 1 Celsius degree in 148,148 years.

Does the City of Toronto tell the public just how trivial is the impact of their costly ‘heroic’ emissions programs? Just who is guilty of deceptive advertising?

Stop supplying everything that comes from petroleum to the GTA. Give those Libtards (who always faithfully elect the “Natural Ruling Party”) exactly what they want. Good. And. Hard.

The only misleading or misinformation is pretending that the climate experts with their doomsday predictions had been correct before. The media never is asking them about their track recored during the last 150 years and their repeated failure.

‘misleading’ ACCORDING TO WHO? how many times even in for instance science and medicine has the common view proved outdated and even maybe abysmally wrong?
tomatoes? microbes? fundamental elements? who orbits who?
hmmmm?
according to who you fcuking lying bastarbs?????