Yes, Henry, it’s perfectly all right for you to point out the little hypocrisy that DeBlasio uses more gasoline than the average person because of his security entourage even though you’ve a climate change denying shill for bigger, more powerful gas guzzling machines for years.
NYC is letting Big Oil know it is far past time to start paying up for climate change. The city is suing BP, Chevron, ConocoPhilliops, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell for the dangers New Yorkers face as fossil fuel companies make the change in our climate worse.
He is being attacked for driving his SUV to the gym – but wait they are working on turning the government fleet into electric cars. They are moving to renewables and retrofitting their buildings. Everyone is in charge of their own footprint, of course he can do better, we all can.
No, they’re suing Exxon because they misled and withheld information from stockholders in an attempt to defend the market valuation of the company. They own a lot of oil that’s still in the ground. If it isn’t going to be pumped, refined, and burned it’s not as valuable as they say it is and that substantially reduces the actual value of the company. Not saying that in company reports is fraud.
A nice comment about dirty energy. When the US government goes all out to encourage finite unrenewable dirty energy, it harms us all not just the United States but the entire world. There are more and more forward-looking countries who are investing in and encouraging clean renewable energy for transportation and personal use than there has ever been were before this Administration. This Administration is putting roadblocks on clean energy. This Administration has declared war on clean renewable energy. The 30% tariff on solar panels and energy efficient washing machines is just one symptom of a government using its power to be harmful to the people. The promise of The Rebirth of coal and oil businesses was a promise for harm to the citizens of this country end of the world. The administration may as well go out and endorse the tobacco companies that lied about the harm done to the public, for the lung cancers that they have caused. Dirty energy pollutes the air and kills people just as much as tobacco ever did.
@wirepunchr…the Chinese not only have a plan, they are delivering on the plan, and will not allow manufacture or sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles in a few short years. They are pushing the world’s auto makers to go electric, and the technology developed for the Chinese market will be exported to the US and elsewhere.
The US is lagging in the implementation of this sort of a long range plan because we have regressive, anti-science, ignorant ideologues. China is ascendant right now, (but with huge demographic problems looming). The US doesn’t plan for the future because the regressives don’t know how to get out of their rut and they dangerously and stupidly deem compromise evil. That’s one reason I refer to them as regressive. Because they are.
Transportation as a service is the future, however. In the next twenty years, transportation as a service delivered by autonomous vehicles will grow exponentially. Ownership of cars will decline over time.
Oh, and it won’t be all that long before the market will stop selling gas power cars. They’ll get phased out in favor of hybrids, then pure electrics. Battery technology has moved more quickly than anyone anticipated and there are VC groups fund new batteries that could be transformative.
Payne’s ignorance knows no bounds. He should get in touch with the real auto industry of today. Not some stupid and ignorant view in the rear view mirror about the cars of yesterday.
streetbeater about 6 years ago
Yes, Henry, it’s perfectly all right for you to point out the little hypocrisy that DeBlasio uses more gasoline than the average person because of his security entourage even though you’ve a climate change denying shill for bigger, more powerful gas guzzling machines for years.
Mr. Blawt about 6 years ago
NYC is letting Big Oil know it is far past time to start paying up for climate change. The city is suing BP, Chevron, ConocoPhilliops, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell for the dangers New Yorkers face as fossil fuel companies make the change in our climate worse.
He is being attacked for driving his SUV to the gym – but wait they are working on turning the government fleet into electric cars. They are moving to renewables and retrofitting their buildings. Everyone is in charge of their own footprint, of course he can do better, we all can.
Radish the wordsmith about 6 years ago
Electric cars are the future.
ED CANTWELL about 6 years ago
No, they’re suing Exxon because they misled and withheld information from stockholders in an attempt to defend the market valuation of the company. They own a lot of oil that’s still in the ground. If it isn’t going to be pumped, refined, and burned it’s not as valuable as they say it is and that substantially reduces the actual value of the company. Not saying that in company reports is fraud.
Sadandconfused9 about 6 years ago
A nice comment about dirty energy. When the US government goes all out to encourage finite unrenewable dirty energy, it harms us all not just the United States but the entire world. There are more and more forward-looking countries who are investing in and encouraging clean renewable energy for transportation and personal use than there has ever been were before this Administration. This Administration is putting roadblocks on clean energy. This Administration has declared war on clean renewable energy. The 30% tariff on solar panels and energy efficient washing machines is just one symptom of a government using its power to be harmful to the people. The promise of The Rebirth of coal and oil businesses was a promise for harm to the citizens of this country end of the world. The administration may as well go out and endorse the tobacco companies that lied about the harm done to the public, for the lung cancers that they have caused. Dirty energy pollutes the air and kills people just as much as tobacco ever did.
wirepunchr about 6 years ago
Just ask China about electric vehicles. I hear that’s their long-term plan.
twclix about 6 years ago
@wirepunchr…the Chinese not only have a plan, they are delivering on the plan, and will not allow manufacture or sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles in a few short years. They are pushing the world’s auto makers to go electric, and the technology developed for the Chinese market will be exported to the US and elsewhere.
The US is lagging in the implementation of this sort of a long range plan because we have regressive, anti-science, ignorant ideologues. China is ascendant right now, (but with huge demographic problems looming). The US doesn’t plan for the future because the regressives don’t know how to get out of their rut and they dangerously and stupidly deem compromise evil. That’s one reason I refer to them as regressive. Because they are.
Transportation as a service is the future, however. In the next twenty years, transportation as a service delivered by autonomous vehicles will grow exponentially. Ownership of cars will decline over time.
Oh, and it won’t be all that long before the market will stop selling gas power cars. They’ll get phased out in favor of hybrids, then pure electrics. Battery technology has moved more quickly than anyone anticipated and there are VC groups fund new batteries that could be transformative.
Payne’s ignorance knows no bounds. He should get in touch with the real auto industry of today. Not some stupid and ignorant view in the rear view mirror about the cars of yesterday.