President Trump just keeps on winning. This time in the steel industry.

[blackpowder]

I'm old enough to know that this attitude of silly buggers started 50 years ago.
I've seen boxcars and caboose. Vancouver hasn't changed much.
Infrastructure investment and attitude hasn't changed anywhere.
Stakeholders that contribute cost only, have increased in size and power.
Reading any farm paper from the 50s will be laughingly familiar.
You can't blame any one politician or party. We have accepted this situation all along. Posts here indicate continuation.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Electric arc by itself isn't the problem.

Simultaneously making electricity much more expensive and less reliable with "green energy", carbon taxes, and carbon capture, while destroying/disincentivizing cheap reliable generation, while the US goes the opposite direction is the problem.

[blackpowder]

Quotes from a Van Sun article, summarized.

"no society in history has ever improved its standard of living without inexpensive energy"

Of course that's only common sense.

The "de-growth movement" is losing ground in polls, as is climate change.
Not disappearing, just adjusting to it's rightful standing after standard of living and economic growth and others. Even Bill Gates admits changing climate won't lead to mankind's end.

If an "energy slave" equates to work done by one man /day.
Today Canadians employ about 340/person. A Congolese, 1.

All forms of energy have their place in the mix. Any transition however, will take longer than the the greens can think ahead.

China has 30% wind and solar.
While building more coal. While building a hydro dam 50 times larger than BC 1.

Maybe the era of starving the horse and whipping the driver while adding weight to the cart are waning?
We shall see.

[agstar77]

The U.S. is heading for a energy disaster. Natural gas for generation is being used for energy production at an unsustainable rate increase., while Trump is trying to stop alternate energy.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

The U.S. is heading for a energy disaster. Natural gas for generation is being used for energy production at an unsustainable rate increase., while Trump is trying to stop alternate energy.

For how many years have you been making that prediction?

[agstar77]

Never. There is not a shortage . Just an ability to produce enough and transport it on a over stretched pipeline and electric grid system. They cannot drill enough wells for gas and get it to market. Not my opinion search Matt Randolph a.k.a. Mr global. The U.S. government is now run by a corrupt ship of fools.

[blackpowder]

To be fair, curtailing r&d in alternatives will have a negative consequence. But the no growth only nincompoops had to be halter broken.

[agstar77]

To be fair, curtailing r&d in alternatives will have a negative consequence. But the no growth only nincompoops had to be halter broken.

There is only one that needs to be broken.

[blackpowder]

Would that be Guilbeau, May, Suzuki, any Trudeau, Greenpeace, the unions or the other foreign based lobby efforts.