Breaking Motoring News 2

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:

1. 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/

2. 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/

3. 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/

4. 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/

5. 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/

6. 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/

7. 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

8. 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/

9. “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/

10. 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

11. 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

12. “The Energy Question” Ep.93 podcast, challenges faced by US domestic oil & natural gas producers:

https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-energy-question-episode-93-dan?publication_id=712558&post_id=143151757&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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/

18. 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/

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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/

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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/

33. 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/

34. 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

35. Mark Steyn @MarkSteynOnline On the Auto Ban:

    https://steynonline.com/14197/on-the-auto-ban, #MarksMondayNotebook

36. 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/

37. 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/

38. 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:

1. 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

2. Sign the petition to repeal the insane 2008 Climate Change Act:

   https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/657353

3. EV Demand SLUMPS! Private Buyers Want Petrol Cars Instead:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NULUUPCvrxc

4. Government seeks to take control of your car by stealth:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_DmgjTfwD4

5. “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

6. 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

7. Sign the petition to raise UK motorway & dual-carriageway speed limits to more realistic levels:

   https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/651666/signatures/new

8. Major ULEZ update covering London ULEZ & Birmingham CAZ policies:

   https://browncarguy.com/2024/04/05/ulez-update-countdown-to-d-dayulez-update/

9. “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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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:

1. Despite massive data falsification & obfuscation, ‘climate’ is increasingly a European small minority issue:

   https://twitter.com/NetZeroWatch/status/1776913880649785772

2. 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

3. 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/

4. 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/

5. 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

6. “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

7. “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

8. “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

9. 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/

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. “The Tyranny Of Oil” Revisited – Robert Bryce on EVs, energy density, and the miracle substance: Oil”:

    https://substack.com/@robertbryce/note/c-52669440

14. 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/

15. 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

16. 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

17. Broadcaster & journalist, Peter Hitchens, exposes Net Zero nonsense for being exactly that:

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1775788355902398637

18. “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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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/

22. 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

23. And Playing God literally precipitates record-breaking rainfall in Tasmania:

    https://twitter.com/Artemisfornow/status/1779772182270251017

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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/

27. 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:

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/10/09/refueleu-aviation-initiative-council-adopts-new-law-to-decarbonise-the-aviation-sector/

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/07/25/fueleu-maritime-initiative-council-adopts-new-law-to-decarbonise-the-maritime-sector/

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

28. “Charity” – Client Earth – using the law to circumvent democracy, against the public interest:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x5Gn-mZJw0