• The rebound was not evidence of a broad return to coal following LNG shipping disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz. China’s combined domestic coal production and imports in fact fell by 1.4% year-on-year in H1 2026, rather than expanding in response to the external energy shock. Growth in clean energy supply and electrification helped offset the fall in oil supply and limit increases in fossil fuel consumption.

https://insideevs.com/news/798256/mexico-olinia-uno-ev-cheap/

ughhhhhh

No!

I mean Yes!

well yes No I am not under an illusion spell but yes I missed an important no!

Imagine a cool USA that loaded up a bunch of Aircraft Carriers with huge amounts of solar panels to donate in a mass wave?

I really hope I get to visit Cuba someday, though I would understand if I wasn't welcome given how cruel my government has been for absolutely no good reason, especially after the end of the Soviet Union and any actual threat from Cuba.

This must be understood as something different than Romans lining their aquaducts with lead, the science was absolutely there to suggest extreme danger from lead poisoning, and no amount of efficiency gained in gas cars was worth it if it kills the people moving or makes them more likely to be violent...

Efficiency is about conducting a task with as little resources as possible while not incurring existential costs that make the investment of resources self defeating.

We usually don't need to say that last part out loud, but here I think we have to understand the 20th century's obsession with cars as spiritual, and I mean that with a straight face because through this framing leaded gasoline was arguably always an insane choice, from the get-go.

Historians looking back will not be able to understand our choices unless they rationalize them as a belief system about cars that goes beyond the rational realm.

1. If your car is in good condition, you don't drive a ton, and you can keep it fixed up and running without going crazy fine, you aren't really part of the problem.
2. EV parts are only expensive because of artificial market conditions, EV vehicles have much simpler drivetrains than ICE cars do at a fundamental level and replacing batteries on a EV mechanically is a million times easier than pulling out an combustion engine and transmission to fix something fundamental with the drivetrain.
3. It would not take years of ownership to pay for itself, especially if the car cost somewhere between $9k and $20k, the reason is your car constantly costs money to keep working, combustion engines inherently are wondrously complex explosions, I think they are cool as hell don't get me wrong but an EV motor is hands down a lower cost engine to run for a daily driver, especially for shorter distances.
4. If you purchased an EV there is a societal benefit to the grid potentially in that a local grid with numerous EV batteries hooked up to it can be far more resilient and cost effective for everyone, and that doesn't even require your EV to be being actively used by you to accrue a benefit that is potentially quantifiable in your benefit.

All that being said, sure keep your old combustion engine car, keep it in good condition and drive it as little as possible, you are fine this is about a broader economic misconception not about judging your particular life choices!

double post but what post could be more important to double post than this post?

Congratulations!!!!

pours entire large bucket of Adult Grizzly Bears on your head.

You’d think that a government that’s made the cost of living its top priority would be all over this like white on rice. And yet, there’s been nothing from Burnham on the drought. Angela Eagle, the secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs, met with the National Farmers Union in late July, but so far hasn’t made any public announcements. Miatta Fahnbulleh, who’s got the net zero brief, has largely focused on the upside (record sunshine means record solar-generated electricity). When it comes to catastrophic climate change, our new PM is determined to keep it sunny.

It should alarm you how incompetent they are at obscuring their evil.

The ButterFry Effect

I hope that when a really bad CME event that happens that we previously would not have been able to forecast without this.... that this work is celebrated for saving so many lives pre-emptively.

I want it quantified in terms of dollars spent on the project per life saved, I bet it will be a damn good deal.