“Rex Murphy: The folly of green economics“

[Hamloc]

I have to admit this article in the national post made laugh and cry at the same time. The federal government gave the city of toronto $1.1 million dollars to put solar panels on the roofs of their ambulances! This is how Justin Trudeau wants to green our economy. This is how he will replace our resource industry jobs by putting Chinese made(China makes 70% of the worlds solar panels) solar panels on ambulances, lmao!!!!

[sumdumguy]

What can one say? Lacko Brainitis is rampant.

[chuckChuck]

Yup Rex, ex CBC celebrity is a beacon of all that is wrong with Canada. Just what we need another celebrity opinion with a fat taxpayer pension from CBC! LOL

Is he trying to get a job writing speeches for Kenney and O'Toole?

[chuckChuck]

Is hydrogen considered green and clean? Because Alberta is going to look at using its gas reserves for hydrogen. Will Rex criticize hydrogen from natural gas too?

[rumrocks]

I haven't decided if the liberals have executed common sense or had it temporarily placed in a holding cell.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-the-folly-of-green-economics https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-the-folly-of-green-economics

[Oliver88]

Hamloc, did Agrivilles solar panel advocate ever answer your simple questions?

[binthere]

Yes comrad chuck did answer by not answering.

[Hamloc]

Hamloc, did Agrivilles solar panel advocate ever answer your simple questions?

He has yet to answer. My thought is that if the numbers were a slam dunk in favour of a solar installations he would have quickly quoted them but now that he has waited so long to respond my guess is he wants time to massage the numbers. Let’s be realistic our natural resources are here, a lot of the technology to harvest those resources is created here, how can you import solar panels from China and related hardware and create as much wealth? That is like me importing hay from China to feed my cows instead of growing my own silage and feeding my cows, it makes no sense!

[jazz]

A 7B investment in TMX will give the govt $50B in tax revenue during its life. I imagine those sort of investments in energy, rail, ag, ports, mining, would yeild the same ROR.

But meh solar...payback = zero, posssibly negative.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

He has yet to answer. My thought is that if the numbers were a slam dunk in favour of a solar installations he would have quickly quoted them but now that he has waited so long to respond my guess is he wants time to massage the numbers. Let’s be realistic our natural resources are here, a lot of the technology to harvest those resources is created here, how can you import solar panels from China and related hardware and create as much wealth? That is like me importing hay from China to feed my cows instead of growing my own silage and feeding my cows, it makes no sense!

No, it is worse than that. Because the ship from China only comes at random unpredictable times, and the quantity and quality rarely matches your needs when it does arrive, therefore you need to have your neighbors feed your cows for free with their own home grown hay and silage for 80% of the time ( and they are mandated to do it for you), and in exchange, when you have a glut of crappy Chinese hay or silage, you dump it on your neighbors front lawn at the worst possible time and let them figure out how to get rid of it at their cost before it turns into a stinking mess, or frozen waste.

I too noticed that Chuck has no shortage of time to post on every thread while simultaneously avoiding your easy questions.