EVs have lower lifetime CO2e emissions, even when the grid is quite carbon intensive. I agree that walkable development and widely available transit alternatives would be better, but EVs are a step in the right direction. Transforming car-dependent cities is not going to happen overnight.
OminousOrange
joined 2 years ago
Saw that one today too. "Made by Canadians, for Canadians." They conveniently left out those Canadians making it probably make near minimum wage and all the profit is sucked up by their American owners.
Ideas 1, 2, and 4 could come together with a permaculture food forest/farm. First task would be to cover crop the land to protect from soil loss and start replenishing some nutrients. Then, you have some time to make a good, phased plan of how you'd want to develop it.
Talk to experts and professionals whichever direction you take. They'll often save you much more than they cost.
Yep, I'd agree with that. I know engineering licensing is governed by each province with Engineers Canada enabling some parity in standards across the country to improve mobility.
These provincial licensing/priviledging difficulties indicate provinces still have a significant say in who can practice in their province. I would guess the national standards are more around education.
It's not dissimilar for engineers either.
Either way, a national board to administer a national Act would be necessary, which would need to develop the national licencing requirements. Unfortunately, there's not many doctors with extra time on their hands to aid with this task.
Slam it all you want, it means nothing until someone actually does something.
You must be American...
Stoon
It's the same thing with your personal finances. All the financial ~~salespeople~~ advisors will tell you to buy actively managed funds because they ~~get paid more~~ can beat the market.
I fired my first advisor after learning about passive investing and she literally said, "you can't beat the market if you are the market." I resisted the urge to request a guarantee that that would happen, but I did track the difference between my actual investments and if I stayed with an actively managed fund with similar holdings. Unsurprisingly, I'm tens of thousands richer today than I would've been.
If the market is up or down, fund managers are still going to take their 2.whatever% cut. I much prefer the 0.2% I pay.
Moe really tries his best to take this province back to the stone age.
Some math, to make a bit of sense of this:
- A $300 charge is what would be collected on 2000 L of fuel ($0.15/L)
- A reasonable gas vehicle would get about 8L/100km
- That $300 charge would be equivalent to that gas vehicle driving 25,000 km in a year.
Anecdotally, I've driven my EV about that in two years.
"But EVs are so much heavier than ICE vehicles!" My EV is about 2000 kg. My similar size hatchback is 1650 kg.
I've got a Home Outfitters one still...
Perhaps time for a third party...