Notley just gave electric vehicle owners what amounts to a $1,900 per car subsidy in the form of an infrastructure handout, by building something the NDP government is calling an “electric corridor.”
That sounds like a great name for a dance bar, but instead, it’s really just a bad way to waste taxpayer money.
According to an Alberta Government press release:
The government of Alberta is providing 1.2 million dollars from the climate leadership plan funding to the Community Energy Association to support the Peak to Prairies Southern Alberta electric vehicle network.
When completed, the Peak to Prairies Network will cover more than 1,700 km of Southern Alberta highways and transition the region to full electric vehicle connectivity.
The media often pegs the number of electric vehicles on the road in Alberta at about 1,000, but in reality, the number is much lower.
By the end of March 2018, there were 635 electric vehicles registered for driving on Alberta roads, about 40 per cent less than the number routinely reported in the mainstream media.
That’s one hell of a rounding error!
If you do the math, 635 vehicles out of a total of 3,557,005 vehicles registered in Alberta comes out to less than two-ten-thousandths of a per cent of all vehicles in the province.
The best part of paying a carbon tax to stay alive in -40 degree weather is subsidizing a handful of affluent electric car drivers so they can make their summer journey from Fort Macleod to the mountains, and feel self-righteous while doing it.
If there were demand for this sort of electric car charging infrastructure (and, there isn’t), the private sector would build it.
Linked article says electric vehicles and plug-in-hybrids. The government number refers to pure electrics. The discrepancy lies in whether you include plug-in-hybrids or not. This is not an error, nor do they try to hide that they’re counting different things.
Yes, I can agree to a certain extent, but seniors have more life experience and common sense.
I use my parents as an example. Both of them would not even touch a computer and watched the news all the time on the TV, yet they were both staunch Conservatives.
What few conversions I had with them about politics, they clearly understood that the CBC would push their Liberal views. They kept their political views despite the CBC’s best attempt to push its’ propaganda.
I guess it all comes down to having life experience and knowing who you are that makes you solid in your Conservative views.
I feel sorry for the kids today because they are indoctrinated from grade one to university in socialistic garbage and unless the parents have strong Conservative beliefs that can counter that indoctrination, the child will become a socialist.
It is sad, really sad.
Albertans need to be focused on holding Kenny’s feet to the fire now .
I am currently here in Florida for the winter & there was an engineer on a radio talk show a couple wks. ago that stated a Tesla travelling at 60 mph uses up 1000 watts of energy (about the same as your window a/c unit). He stated that Commiefornia’s law to make ALL vehicles on their roads in about 25 yrs. was nothing but a scam, as there is NO WAY that you could have the available energy to recharge all the vehicles in LA overnight at once.
From my RV hauling days, my Cummins diesel would barely start on a 20 to 30 below 0 morning in Alberta or Sask. & that was with TWO 850 CCA batteries, so I am sceptical of the claim that a Tesla only loses 30% of battery capacity in similar conditions.
BTW, Alberta has that most common-sense people in Canada! They remind ofTexans (not the ones in Houston or San Antonio thou)!