The Alliance of British Drivers, The Motorcycle Action Group and Fair Fuel share all the important stories about motoring, the environment and politics whic affect us all on a day to day driving basis. Here are the headlines and the links you need to find out the truth.
Global Climate/ Social / Political Developments:
- Australian Bureau of Meteorology Forecasts Record-Warm Winter, Ignoring Data (& Cooking The Books):
https://electroverse.info/snow-iran-europe-spring-freeze-bureau-of-meteorology-cooking-the-books/ - Yukon Snowpack Breaks Records; Early Snows Hit Australia’s Ski Fields; + It’s Still Snowing On Kilimanjaro; Al Gore Was Wrong (Again!):
https://electroverse.info/yukon-record-snowpack-early-snows-hit-australia-snow-on-kilimanjaro-al-gore-was-wrong/ - Alta Posts Rare Back-To-Back 600+ Inch Winters; Indian Army Rescues 80 Trapped By Spring Snowfall; Remarkable Antarctic Sea Ice Recovery; + NOAA confirm no direct CO2-temperature relationship:
https://electroverse.info/alta-600-inch-winters-80-trapped-by-snow-antarctic-sea-ice-recovery-noaa-truth/ - April Nor’Easter Drops Feet Of Snow; 600k Lose Power As ‘Spring’ Storm Batters Quebec; Scandinavia Breaks Historic Low Temperature Stretch; + Professor Exposes NASA’s ‘Massive Retrospective Temperature Adjustments’
https://electroverse.info/april-noreaster-spring-storm-quebec-avalanche-helicopter-scandinavia-stretch-giss-adjustments/ - NASA/ NOAA ‘adjust’ historic temperatures colder to create a falsified, exaggerated warming trend:
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/04/massive-retrospective-adjustments-made-to-temperature-databases-used-to-promote-net-zero/ - Sweden Sets Coldest April Temperature; Utah Snowpack At 132%, California Defies The ‘Experts’; Anchorage Only 6.3″ Away From All-Time Record; Swiss Avalanche Kills 3; + 35 Sunspots:
https://electroverse.info/sweden-april-cold-swiss-avalanche-utah-132-california-snow-anchorage-35-sunspots/ - March 2024 Sets New Global Temperature Anomaly Record – But It Must Be El Niño’s Last Gasp:
https://jaimejessop.substack.com/p/march-2024-sets-new-global-temperature?publication_id=576327&post_id=143215217&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Antarctica Dips Below -100°F; “Significant Spring Snowstorm” Takes Aim At Canada/Northern US; April Snow Builds Across Europe’s Higher Elevations; + Himalaya Road Clearing
https://electroverse.info/antarctica-cold-spring-snow-north-america-and-europe-himalaya-clearing/ - “Unusually Cool March” In New Zealand; Antarctica Nears -100°F; Rare Spring Cold Grips NW China; Brits Priced Out Of Energy Market; Norway Freezes; +Another X-Flare:
https://electroverse.info/cool-new-zealand-antarctica-cold-china-brits-energy-norway-freezes-another-x-flare/ - HTDS (Hunga Tonga Derangement/Denial Syndrome) is becoming firmly embedded in academia:
https://jaimejessop.substack.com/p/another-mickey-mouse-study-purports?publication_id=576327&post_id=143259340&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - World’s coal power capacity rises despite climate warnings:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/world-s-coal-power-capacity-rises-despite-climate-warnings/ar-BB1lqAX4?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=c5848e9b6a2d4d2be2aebb2b63a00a1a&ei=22 - “The Energy Question” Ep.93 podcast, challenges faced by US domestic oil & natural gas producers:
- The beginning of the end of ‘ruinables’ – Florida First State to Ban Offshore Wind?:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/will-florida-become-the-first-state?publication_id=712558&post_id=143100618&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Biden Administration’s Insane Electric Truck Emissions Mandate Enacted:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/biden-epas-electric-truck-mandate?publication_id=712558&post_id=143233695&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - The Energy Realities Podcast: detailing the current state of the heavily-subsidized US BEV industry and where it will likely go from here:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-energy-realities-podcast-are?publication_id=712558&post_id=143443952&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - US BEV market crashes; & the Biden administration’s subsidised electric dreams with it:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/electric-car-crash-the-american-ev?publication_id=712558&post_id=143391065&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Americans Send Biden Unmistakable Reality Check About His BEV Push in New Poll:
https://www.westernjournal.com/americans-send-biden-unmistakable-reality-check-electric-vehicle-push-new-poll/ - Volkswagen electric car sales plunge as Europe returns to petrol, 24pc BEV sales fall amid high energy prices and rollback of subsidies:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/04/10/volkswagen-electric-car-sales-europe-turns-back-petrol/ - The EV Bloodbath is Going Global: Tesla recently announced ↓20% Q1’24 US sales vs. Q4’23. Volkswagen European Q1 BEV sales ↓24%, while sales of petrol & diesel cars rose significantly:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/and-just-like-that-the-ev-bloodbath?publication_id=712558&post_id=143478844&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Tesla lays off more than 10% of its global electric vehicle workforce due to faltering BEV demand:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68818113 - Major new fuels should play a post 2035 role keeping ICEVs on the road, German Minister says:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/major-new-fuels-should-play-a-role-after-2035-to-keep-petrol-and-diesel-cars-on-the-road-german-minister-says/ar-BB1loa69?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=2567596e92a4438db7bc8309a6f9ee7f&ei=5 - Eight US States Now Say Complete Ban on Gas-Powered New Car Sales Coming:
https://www.westernjournal.com/8-states-now-say-complete-ban-gas-powered-new-car-sales-coming/ - D.C. Circuit upholds California Clean Air Act banning gas-engine cars. Supreme Court reversal likely:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/washington-update-from-the-us-oil-2ad?publication_id=712558&post_id=143516722&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - The International Energy Agency is now just another green activist campaign:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-international-energy-agency-is?publication_id=712558&post_id=143260163&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - SPR Will Not Be Refilled By This President: future widespread public energy poverty is “THE PLAN“:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/thursdays-energy-absurdity-the-spr?publication_id=712558&post_id=143261132&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - The U.S. Is A Natural Gas Superpower. Gas is a strategic, irreplaceable fuel for the U.S. and Europe:
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/natty-nation-these-11-charts-show?publication_id=630873&post_id=143469981&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Read Dr. Niall McRae’s “Green in Tooth & Claw” for supporting evidence for the assertion that we, the populace, are being “played” by a cadre of very evil people:
https://twitter.com/VerityFran29594/status/1777316099891048777 - JP Morgan CEO Slams Calls to Stop Oil, Gas as ‘Enormously Naive’ He isn’t wrong:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/jamie-dimon-slams-calls-to-stop-oil?publication_id=712558&post_id=143392260&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Ethiopian government passes a law banning the import of non-electric vehicles into the country!:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/tuesdays-energy-absurdity-ethopia?publication_id=712558&post_id=143412990&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Demented, irrational Swiss pensioners’ legal bid to control asylum; witchcraft prevails over science:
https://jaimejessop.substack.com/p/the-echr-climate-changed-heatwaves?publication_id=576327&post_id=143419759&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - ECHR rules governments MUST sacrifice more pensioners’ lives in Winter so a few are more comfortable in Summer
https://jaimejessop.substack.com/p/the-echr-has-ruled-that-governments?publication_id=576327&post_id=143499108&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - EU may legislate to ban repairs on cars over 15 years old: based on ‘residual vehicle’ concept – vehicles over 15 years with faults affecting engine, gearbox, brakes, steering, chassis or bodywork.
https://www.oe-mag.co.uk/the-european-union-may-ban-repairs-on-cars-over-15-years-old-but-how/ - Germany’s Transport Minister threatens to ban weekend driving to meet climate goals:
https://politico.eu/article/germany-climate-cars-volker-wissing-minister-suggests-indefinite-driving-bans-on-weekends/ - Conspiracy Theory? What Germany’s Government is Threatening Now:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/still-think-its-a-conspiracy-theory?publication_id=712558&post_id=143010025&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Mark Steyn @MarkSteynOnline On the Auto Ban:
https://steynonline.com/14197/on-the-auto-ban, #MarksMondayNotebook - The Arctic Was Warmer In The 1920s + “We Have 2 Years To Save The World,”: says clown-show UN:
https://electroverse.info/avalanche-deaths-alps-india-coldest-april-day-arctic-warmer-in-1920s-2-years-to-save-the-world/ - Human quality of life has NEVER been better but WHO wants doctors and nurses to claim the opposite:
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/12/why-is-the-who-asking-doctors-to-lie-to-promote-climate-alarm/ - Will Shell Pull Up Stakes Again? Every act of European politicians’ eco-insanity has European (un)employment consequences?:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/mondays-energy-absurdity-will-shell?publication_id=712558&post_id=143603248&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
Recent Local/ National Developments:
- Mandatory Speed Limiter fitment on ALL vehicles within months? Did YOU ask for this?:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/driving-law-changes-launching-within-months-could-see-speed-limiters-installed-in-british-vehicles/ar-BB1lytwK - Sign the petition to repeal the insane 2008 Climate Change Act:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/657353 - EV Demand SLUMPS! Private Buyers Want Petrol Cars Instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NULUUPCvrxc - Government seeks to take control of your car by stealth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_DmgjTfwD4 - “I sold my electric car and went back to a diesel – I’d had enough”:
https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/sold-electric-car-diesel-unreliable-2979616 - Driving law proposals could see motorway speed limits raised to 100mph to ‘reduce congestion’:
https://www.gbnews.com/lifestyle/cars/driving-law-proposals-motorway-speed-limits-petition - Sign the petition to raise UK motorway & dual-carriageway speed limits to more realistic levels:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/651666/signatures/new - Major ULEZ update covering London ULEZ & Birmingham CAZ policies:
https://browncarguy.com/2024/04/05/ulez-update-countdown-to-d-dayulez-update/ - “Liar! Liar! “Pants on Fire!” Khan denies Project Detroit’s existence 17 times:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1886171/sadiq-khan-susan-hall-mayor-of-london-elections-pay-per-mile - Durham & Darlington roads set to be maintained using reallocated HS2 funds. Damn’ right, too:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/durham-darlington-roads-set-to-be-maintained-using-reallocated-hs2-funds/ar-BB1lphao - Authoritarian interventions to impose behaviour change. Net Zero policies underpin damaging LTN, MRZ, ULEZ, LEZ & 20mph zone policies; Full Together Glasgow event here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB915NHMKMw - New smart motorway rules could be introduced as government ‘does right thing’. Hmmm:
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-smart-motorway-rules-could-28995995 - End of BEV free ride in sight; while War against all personal private mobility intensifies:
https://browncarguy.com/2024/04/16/end-of-free-rides/#more-19353
Narrative Developments:
- Despite massive data falsification & obfuscation, ‘climate’ is increasingly a European small minority issue:
https://twitter.com/NetZeroWatch/status/1776913880649785772 - Rishi Sunak told us the government needed to come clean about the cost of Net Zero. Still not happening:
https://www.netzerowatch.com/all-news/coutinho-sleight-of-hand - British politicians have rushed into an immensely significant [Net Zero] policy agenda with little detailed idea of its practical implications:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/03/30/a-net-zero-threat-we-can-no-longer-ignore/ - Net Zero now threatens our national security: yet another example of lions being (mis)led by donkeys:
https://telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/01/net-zero-threatens-our-national-security/ - Law of Unintended Consequences in action. In 15 out of 16 applications examined, plastic products actually make less greenhouse gasses than alternatives:
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-plastics-alternatives-worse-greenhouse-gas.html - “I sold my electric car and went back to a diesel – I’d had enough”:
https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/sold-electric-car-diesel-unreliable-2979616 - “How Hertz’s bet on Tesla went horribly sideways” – share price bombs 74%, heads & roles roll:
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/companies-markets/transport-logistics/how-hertz-s-bet-teslas-went-horribly-sideways - “Bad News for Tesla Highlights the Looming Bloodbath for the US Auto Industry:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/bad-news-for-tesla-highlights-the?publication_id=712558&post_id=143204500&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Apple cutting more than 600 jobs after abandoning its decade-long efforts at building a BEV:
https://telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/04/05/apple-600-job-losses-giving-up-electric-cars/ - Have we mercifully surmounted peak EV? Never mind Tesla; BYD sales are also down:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/02/business/tesla-sales/index.html - Buick Introduces a ‘Revolutionary’ New SUV:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/mondays-energy-absurdity-buick-introduces?publication_id=712558&post_id=143158618&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Nothing to See Here, Just Another Random Exploding EV (manufacturer?)
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-energy-absurdity-of-the-week-3fe?publication_id=712558&post_id=143123055&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - “The Tyranny Of Oil” Revisited – Robert Bryce on EVs, energy density, and the miracle substance: Oil”:
https://substack.com/@robertbryce/note/c-52669440 - Sir John Redwood: “Nobody is buying into the Net Zero madness”:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/02/green-energy-net-zero-heat-pumps-national-grid/ - Wind/Solar/Alt-Energy Subsidies To Cost US Federal Taxpayers $425 Billion Between Now And 2033. No wonder energy costs are so high…..as in UK, for the same reason:
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/windsolaralt-energy-subsidies-to?publication_id=630873&post_id=143253403&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - The Coming Surge in Electric Power Demand is Real. The ruinables-obsessed UK political establishment is likely blithely ignorant of this colossal power generation elephant in the room:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/steve-everley-the-coming-surge-in?publication_id=712558&post_id=143295742&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Broadcaster & journalist, Peter Hitchens, exposes Net Zero nonsense for being exactly that:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1775788355902398637 - “Mr. Blobby” Gore’s Sea Level Rise Lies exposed for all to see:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/mondays-energy-absurdity-hey-remember-6f8?publication_id=712558&post_id=143381791&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - More arrant Mr Blobby (this time snowline retreat) nonsense:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/a-perfect-sunday-energy-absurdity?publication_id=712558&post_id=143363076&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Rupert Darwall, on why he thinks the economics of environmentalism are even worse than Marxism:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/rupert-darwall-british-thought-leaders-5620080?ea_src=uk-frontpage&ea_med=top-news-british-thought-leaders-0 - Thanks to Net Zero, U.K. energy prices are amongst the highest in the world, paying >5x more than China and 2x as much as the U.S. And it’s getting worse:
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/09/net-zero-leaves-u-k-paying-five-times-more-for-electricity-than-china/ - Lunatic Chemtrail climate-tampering concept getting airtime again:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/secretive-experiment-shoots-aerosols-into-sky-to-increase-cloud-cover-facts-matter-5624329?src_src=morningbriefnoe&src_cmp=mb-2024-04-09&est=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY%2FAidB0GztPN67wcpzIOU5R9xkIHK2cN2s6QQN1hN0GhWCRKZk630NIO - And Playing God literally precipitates record-breaking rainfall in Tasmania:
https://twitter.com/Artemisfornow/status/1779772182270251017 - Bill Gates says ‘electricity unfortunately has to be reliable’. DUUUUHH!:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/wednesdays-energy-absurdity-bill?publication_id=712558&post_id=143444564&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - MSM junk-science claim that global warming is both speeding up, &slowing down, Earth’s rotation!:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/tuesdays-energy-absurdity-your-legacy?publication_id=712558&post_id=143635633&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Germany Regrets Disbanding Nuclear Plants. Mothballing/ decommissioning nuclear &/or CCGT capacity in favour of erratic, expensive, unreliable “ruinables” was always madness; now come home to roost:
https://electroverse.info/arctic-sea-ice-snow-india-germany-nuclear-woes-54-spots/ - EU offers eFuel use exemptions to aviation & marine transport sectors, but NOT to automotive. More evidence of unvarnished EU hatred of individual freedom of personal mobility:
The Energy Transition Insanity Podcast: Truth-telling to economically & environmentally deaf-, dumb & blind politicians & influencers:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-energy-realities-podcast-4152024?publication_id=712558&post_id=143605035&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
- “Charity” – Client Earth – using the law to circumvent democracy, against the public interest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x5Gn-mZJw0
