Our national capital region, Autowa/Gasineau, is designed to be as car friendly as possible. That’s why so many of its sprawling suburbs (including Karnata, Oileans, Carrhaven, Fuelburn Hamlet, and Oilmer; and even more far-flung villages like Kars) are named as they are.
We love our cars. They are the essence of what it means to be Carnadian.
Well, maybe it’s a bit annoying to deal with the massive congestion on the 401 in Toronto for the daily commute, but Doug Ford Motors is going to fix that with his new tunnel. Just be patient, it should be ready by… 2040, if Doug can “get ‘er done” as fast as the one in Boston.
The cost of a tunnel ($15 billion in Boston) would just be chump change compared to the $37.7 (or is it $43.6) billion) that the fuelderal, Carbeq, and Oiltario governments are spending on electric vehicle battery plants.
So what’s coming next? We’ll need huge amounts of electricity to power all those EVs.
No problem.
To enable a seamless transition from gas-powered cars to EVs, the Impact Assessment Agency of Carnada is proposing that a fossil-fuel brownfield next to your home could become a nuclear power facility with no federal assessment! Here’s the Agency’s brilliant suggestion:
Exempting or scoping down assessments of nuclear projects using known technologies when proposed on brownfield fossil-fuel electricity generating sites.
The Agency also wants to change the list of mandatory federal assessments to benefit Oiltario and Oilberta:
- Remove new fossil fuel-fired power generating facilities,
- Remove expansions of fossil fuel-fired power generating facilities
- Remove new in situ oil sands facilities
- Remove expansions of in situ oil sands facilities
This is great! Clean growth means putting as many new cars on the road as possible.
For now, at least, most of those cars will burn oil. But that oil will have been scrubbed clean as a whistle using carbon capture technology.
For EVs, we’ll need lots and lots more electricity. Until Autowa can make good on Carnada’s pledge to triple nuclear power by 2050, much of that electricity will come from new fossil fuel-fired power generating facilities — like the new gas plants Doug is getting built in Oiltario.
With regard to Doug’s tunnel proposal, shame on the Globe and Mail for running an editorial saying, “It’s also not fair that people living in Northern Ontario, Kingston, Ottawa or any other part of the province, have to pay to improve the commutes of people living in the GTA.”
Didn’t Jimmy Carter say, “Life isn’t fair?”
Doug also wants to ban bike lanes, a truly progressive idea. There may be consequences for a motorist who kills or injures a cyclist, but a visionary politician like Mr. Ford Motors should not be held responsible for a bit of collateral damage.
Bicycling is unCarnadian. Making a bicycle consumes pathetically small quantities of metals compared to making a car. Autowa and Oiltario need to stimulate mining of critical minerals. Such idiocy to leave them locked up in the Ring of Fire.
Once we’ve eliminated bicycle lanes, let’s get rid of sidewalks – another pathetic waste of space that could be better used by cars.
Autowa and its provincial allies are right to promote car friendly transportation that’s clean, clean, clean – an exciting, brave new world of ever-greater consumption of electricity, minerals, and oil.
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