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. “The heatwave of 1921 was global, and brought millions of people to the brink of starvation”. Hardly anyone still alive who remembers either this or the subsequent 1930’s Dustbowl era:
https://x.com/TonyClimate/status/1819152936335032644
2. Heavy Snow Hits New Zealand; Chilean Ski Resort Remains Open Despite Volcanic Activity; Too Many Polar Bears In Greenland; +British Farmers Paid To NOT Produce Food:
3. Record July Cold Hits Scotland; Summer To Quit Early This Year; NASA’s Claim of Earth’s Hottest Day:
4. Remarkable Summer Gains On The Greenland Ice Sheet; Solar Influence on Tropical Cyclones; ***+IPCC Misrepresents Satellite Data, Scientists Say***:
5. Record Cold Persists In E.Australia; Arctic Sea Ice Extent: No Cause For Alarm; Solar Max Reached?; Cold Deaths In England Far Outstrip Heat Deaths; +$78 Trillion To Fight The ‘Climate Crisis’:
6. “In the last few decades, an area twice the size of the U.S. has greened. A more decisive refutation of the doomsayers’ narrative is hard to imagine”:
7. ‘Global Boiling’ Nonsense Bypasses Great Britain In July:
https://jaimejessop.substack.com/p/the-era-of-global-boiling-passes
8. B.C. Wineries Get Support After Devastating Winter Freeze; Antarctic Stratospheric Warming Update; “No Snow By 2030”; “Hottest Day in 100,000 Years”?; +X14 Farside Solar Flare:
9. The AGW Party Is Losing Ground; US Temps, Raw vs Adjusted; +“Hottest Day Ever”?:
The AGW Party Is Losing Ground; US Temps, Raw vs Adjusted; + “Hottest Day Ever”?
10. Texas Cold Front Breaks Daily Records; Aussie Freeze Exposes Energy Shortfalls; UK’s Cool Summer Results In Low Bat Numbers; +CO2 vs. Natural Climate Variability:
11. Study Confirms CO2 Is Greening The Earth; Geo-Engineering Driven By Profit and Megalomania; Statewide Highs; +“Control Energy, Control Human Beings”:
12. Dr. Patrick Moore: We are replenishing atmospheric CO2 to a much safer level than it had gone down to:
https://x.com/i/status/1815359600360603800
13. Chris Martz: The facts about US tornado frequency:
https://x.com/ChrisMartzWX/status/1815733281104773150
14. July ’21 was 20th coolest since 1895. Hottest years were 1901 & 1936; which few still living can remember:
https://x.com/TonyClimate/status/1815808950282973276
15. Don’t become a human pigeon equivalent in an AI-dominated future:
https://miri.substack.com/p/the-proverbial-pigeons
16. The West leads the world in promoting electric vehicles ‘for the climate’, this is what’s happening in Congo:
https://x.com/JusperMachogu/status/1817549222763266458
17. African communities/villages are worried about food, clean water, a clean food cooking energy source & clean lighting. No-one is worried about climate change, despite what MSM is preaching:
https://x.com/i/status/1816487776067465697
18. Dr. Patrick Moore: “The future will show climate change & associated hysteria to be a complete fabrication”:
https://x.com/i/status/1816456319622090855
19. Pielke on the selective exclusion of large tracts of ‘uncomfortable’ reality by the climate science community:
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/why-climate-misinformation-persists?publication_id=119454&post_id=146992837&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
20. Chevron Relocates corporate HQ from eco-delusionally psychotic California to Houston, Texas:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/chevron-taking-its-headquarters-to?publication_id=712558&post_id=147270432&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
21. Global Power Demand Is Soaring, IEA Expects 4% Growth in ’24 & ‘25. Coal powers Indian & Chinese growth, U.S. gas burn sets new record – as wind goes AWOL:
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/global-power-demand-is-soaring-iea?publication_id=630873&post_id=147253329&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
22. Air New Zealand scraps its 2030 carbon emissions target, citing costly & scarce solutions:
Air New Zealand scraps its 2030 carbon emissions target, saying solutions are costly and scarce
23. Martha’s Vineyard Wind Disaster is a Product of the Biden/Harris Agenda:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/vineyard-wind-disaster-is-a-product?publication_id=712558&post_id=147063037&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
24. Decarbonisation data from 2006 to 2023 shows NO global effect of the Paris Agreement. 14 countries show evidence of accelerated rates of decarbonisation, but far off rates required to hit the Paris Agreement targets:
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/well-always-have-paris?publication_id=119454&post_id=147219697&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
25. Digital Euro Controversy: What the ECB Doesn’t Want You to Know About Your Privacy:
Digital Euro Controversy: What the ECB Doesn’t Want You to Know About Your Privacy
26. Asia’s Ports Are Leading Global Shipping Traffic Charge. A consequence of all-industry off-shoring:
How Asia’s Ports Are Leading The Charge In Global Shipping Traffic
27. Continuing EV Bloodbath Leaves Harris With Much to Answer For. That is if legacy media bother to ask:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/continuing-ev-bloodbath-leaves-harris?publication_id=712558&post_id=147194883&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNDAxNTc2ODIsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE0NzE5NDg4MywiaWF0IjoxNzIyNDIyMzI0LCJleHAiOjE3MjUwMTQzMjQsImlzcyI6InB1Yi03MTI1NTgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.5AAeg34zOer80jl6lEYg05VJhTJHYW6iG6CDqYAvqLw&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
28. Could Cuba leapfgrog the UK in the world energy security pecking order?
29. Net Zero makes us poorer and China richer. Stop haemhorrhaging $trillions in climate policies mainly benefitting Beijing:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/24/net-zero-will-only-make-you-poorer-and-china-richer/
30. The Energy Realities Podcast: Is the ‘Energy Transition’ Disintegrating Before Our Very Eyes?:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-energy-realities-podcast-is-the?publication_id=712558&post_id=146882688&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNDAxNTc2ODIsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE0Njg4MjY4OCwiaWF0IjoxNzIxNjYwMzg0LCJleHAiOjE3MjQyNTIzODQsImlzcyI6InB1Yi03MTI1NTgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.HYwUcs7F9vfTKOs25oBADpZqy7UAhmKuO7kjL1lfusU&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
31. From Bad to Worse: Energy Policy Would Shift Left In A Kamala Harris Presidency:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/from-bad-to-worse-energy-policy-would?publication_id=712558&post_id=146919650&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
32. A Harris Presidency Would Be an Inevitable Energy Security Disaster:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/a-harris-presidency-would-be-an-inevitable?publication_id=712558&post_id=146954493&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
33. Farmers have been resisting the far-left/ far-right globalist Uniparty alliance for months:
https://x.com/i/status/1814941296189976820
34. EU planning an all asset register database of every citizen, so they can introduce a WEALTH TAX:
https://x.com/Artemisfornow/status/1816028425670312017
35. Wind/ solar advocates misattribute poor grid planning, not ruinables’ inherent unreliability, to outages:
https://energybadboys.substack.com/p/why-dont-they-turn-the-wind-turbines?publication_id=1664779&post_id=147035037&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
36. Doug Sheridan’s opinion of media mogul Mike Bloomberg’s dark-green comi-fantasy ‘tipping points’:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/doug-sheridan-on-boomberg-and-its?publication_id=712558&post_id=147075811&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
37. Resolution Foundation recommends government steamrollers local NZ resistance in Marxo-Fascist style:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/report-urges-government-to-overcome-resistance-to-local-net-zero-projects-5691498?src_src=uk_top5noe&src_cmp=uk_t5-2024-07-29&est=bTwOF7Wjrj4DSwWgr3NnZROF7TLnKh2wNFoi0Urebd%2BLxXRBM1%2FkR4bBlHQE4F0BkMFPiU7p
38. Climate issues are being exploited by the World Economic Forum and Bill Gates as an excuse to clamp top-down totalitarian controls on society” ~ Robert Kennedy Jr.:
https://x.com/i/status/1816725124940271796
39. ‘Big (Carbon Credit) Con Game’: Corporations Sink Hundreds Of Millions Into Carbon Credit System On Already Protected Land:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/big-con-game-corporations-sink-hundreds?publication_id=712558&post_id=147001845&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
40. Why Climate Misinformation Persists – Noble lies, conventional wisdom, and luxury beliefs:
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/why-climate-misinformation-persists?publication_id=119454&post_id=146992837&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
41. Another ‘Man-made climate change fuelled disaster’ myth collides with reality:
https://x.com/KeillerDon/status/1815498449929859514
42. Another NOAA fabricated temperature data “ghost station” exposed:
https://x.com/_ClimateCraze/status/1815899707081675056
43. WEF: “Happy sharing, not owning, a car?” Response? Two word expletive linking procreation & travel:
https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1815362177735295335
44. Queensland Great Dividing Range long-established forest land sacrificed on the altar of N(y)et Zero:
https://x.com/i/status/1816369957975814544
https://www.rainforestreserves.org.au/
45. Oil And Gas Mergers Total $250 Billion In Just 12 Months:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/oil-and-gas-mergers-total-250-billion?publication_id=712558&post_id=147165954&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
46. Judith Curry endorses article exploring hidden tradeoffs underlying the ‘Energy Transition’ agenda:
47. CrowdStrike Disaster: The True Cost Of The Digital Revolution: a massive catastrophe in the making”:
CrowdStrike Disaster: The True Cost Of The Digital Revolution
48. In 2001 BBC reported: “Thirty-five deaths in the Lynmouth flood disaster of 1952 came only days after RAF rain-making experiments over southern England, it has emerged”. Best leave geo-engineering well alone:
https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/1815687204179456345
49. “The more countries chase intermittent parasitic renewables, the more expensive their energy becomes”:
https://x.com/JusperMachogu/status/1815587015464993183
50. Explosive AI Expansion Sparks Copper-Boom In Zambia: China presumptive main beneficiary?
51. Big Trouble brewing for Offshore Wind projects?
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/breaking-wind?publication_id=630873&post_id=146833592&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
52. How is Nickel for EV Batteries Smelted in Indonesia? With Coal:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/how-is-nickel-for-ev-batteries-is?publication_id=712558&post_id=147122028&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNDAxNTc2ODIsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE0NzEyMjAyOCwiaWF0IjoxNzIyMjU1MTc5LCJleHAiOjE3MjQ4NDcxNzksImlzcyI6InB1Yi03MTI1NTgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.GSM0zjinPflbFaV_QVP9B5k3upka9wJ_4KLwghohPU8&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
53. BEV industry carnage only just starting. Those responsible should be held accountable for financial chaos:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/27/heads-should-roll-over-the-electric-car-fiasco/
54. Ford Exceeds Expectations, Losing ‘Only’ $50k per Unit in EV Division in Q2, ’24:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/ford-outperforms-expectations-losing?publication_id=712558&post_id=146994806&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
55. Ford’s EV Bloodbath: $47,585↓ on each Q2 BEV sale. Turbine disintegration “manufacturing deviation”:
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/fords-ev-bloodbath-continues?publication_id=630873&post_id=146972186&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
56. Tesla Continues to Struggle Amid Falling EV Demand:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/tesla-continues-to-struggle-amid?publication_id=712558&post_id=146956905&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
57. Not Even Super Woke Austin Can Afford the Shift to EV Buses:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/not-even-super-woke-austin-can-afford?publication_id=712558&post_id=147158880&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true
58. Nor, it turns out, can Maryland:
https://www.westernjournal.com/school-district-turns-diesel-attempt-convert-bus-fleet-electric-proves-disastrous/
59. Which Electric Cars Are Most Likely To Cause Fatal Accidents? Is Your EV On The List?
Which Electric Cars Are Most Likely To Cause Fatal Accidents? Is Your EV On The List?
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Recent Local/ National Developments:
1. Motorists’ access denied to more & more roads to reduce people’s mobility via the “15-minute cities” agenda:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1ew174l8po
2. In true Marxo-Fascist style, Rachel Reeves will punish the prudent & successful to reward the feckless state:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/31/labour-lied-now-tax-middle-england-into-submission/
3. Jeremy Clarkson: Two-hour trip to see Richard Hammond showed Britain’s roads are falling apart:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/29654868/british-roads-falling-apart-jeremy-clarkson/
4. Labour engage in a monumental example of unvarnished political, economic & social vandalism; while refined hydrocarbon demand in the developing world maintains extremely vigorous growth:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/08/01/uk-will-forced-rely-foreign-oil-import-fill-petrol-stations/
5. UK & Dutch gas costs currently c.6x > price of US gas. Surely time to invest in our own sources of supply?
https://x.com/7Kiwi/status/1819303175305720005
6. Reeves tax raid means ‘game over’ for North Sea oil and gas:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/29/ftse-100-markets-latest-updates-rachel-reeves-interest-rate/
7. Imprudently, Britain is increasingly reliant on (not necessarily politically reliable) imported energy:
https://x.com/7Kiwi/status/1818912344451260560
8. Miliband to add £1.5bn per annum to energy bills in record ‘reliably unreliable’ offshore wind investment:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/31/miliband-add-15bn-energy-bills-record-offshore-wind-invest/
9. Latest renewables CfD strike prices are uniformly above gas/nuclear; so energy prices can only RISE:
https://x.com/clim8resistance/status/1818618643967566269
10. If renewables are (allegedly) nine times cheaper than gas, why do they need record breaking subsidies?
https://x.com/7Kiwi/status/1818743922744869039
11. Austerity may kill Labour’s green superpower ambitions at the first (commercial investment) hurdle:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/31/austerity-kill-labour-green-superpower-ambition-first-hurdl/
12. Council proposes charging drivers to use their free parking spaces,. Charge council jobsworths instead!:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/29365621/croydon-council-parking-levy/
13. Reform UK opposes Sadiq Khan’s tunnel tax:
https://x.com/i/status/1817223979762917837
14. No scrapped HS2 route compulsory property purchases have been re-sold. So Labour can resuscitate it?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz4725118r5o
15. DESNZ is comprised of a batch of public sector lifers with zero commercial savvy or energy know-how:
16. ****Telegraph: Labour needs to scrap UK gas network!!!****:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/30/ed-miliband-scrap-britain-gas-network-experts-cost-billions/
17. Labour’s ephemeral campaign centrepiece £300 consumer energy bill reduction: Starmer & Miliband both refusing to repeat the pledge. Reality setting in & Miliband’s lower energy bills Net Zero fantasy fades:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/28/why-milibands-great-british-energy-wont-cut-your-bills/
18. By religiously pursuing Net Zero, Labour will raise costs for households and business, make home heating a luxury and leave the UK vulnerable to costly imports from volatile countries, if not blackouts.” Daily Mail:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13674417/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Sir-Keir-Starmers-green-dream-hot-air.html
19. Rachel Reeves pauperises the aspirational slightly better off to reward the (Labour voting) state-dependent:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/31/labour-lied-now-tax-middle-england-into-submission/
20. The enforced shift to BEVs is going to impose gargantuan costs on motorists & taxpayers – and have major negative economic impacts. Car ownership reduction (part of the plan) will compound the economic damage:
21. Vote against Birmingham Council’s deranged city-wide transport policy proposals:
https://x.com/BrumLeader/status/1817106650274410971 &
https://www.birminghambeheard.org.uk/bcc/ccma/
22. In just three weeks Starmergedon has dropped the £300 electricity bill reduction pledge. His real plans will raise bills by at least that amount, and will raise the cost of living by the same again:
https://x.com/aDissentient/status/1816481715923128454
23. Cash is KING. 1.5 MILLION people used mainly cash in their daily lives hitting record high pre-pandemic levels. A cashless #CBDC society would adversely impact millions of Britons. Government must reconsider:
https://x.com/BigBrotherWatch/status/1816056611527414225
24. “Cut Fuel Taxes & we’ll be Growing Places: growing the economy is definitely not by ripping off motorists”:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/29529365/rachel-reeves-labour-fuel-tax-howard-cox/
25. Great fuel rip-off! How drivers are being fleeced at petrol stations by ‘unchecked greed’:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1925612/fuel-prices-rip-off-motorway-service-stations
26. “Take London out of the equation our GDP per capita is lower than Mississippi’s, America’s poorest state.”:
https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/07/australian-diary-73/
27. The escalation in energy prices since 2013 is almost entirely driven by renewables subsidy increases:
https://www.netzerowatch.com/all-news/why-have-electricity-prices-risen
28. Deranged female Swiss pensioner style, govt. will over-egg Summer heat deaths & ignore mountainous numbers of Winter hypothermia deaths their police will precipitate:
https://substack.com/@badsciencedenier/note/c-63288427
29. Despite a wealth of scientifically-validated contrary evidence that these zones will do NONE of these things, Somerset’s versions will miraculously be “safer & healthier”. Jim Royle phrase: “My Ar*e” comes to mind:
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/somerset-village-20mph-zone-safer-9423281
30. We can already do everything we need/ want to do without a digital ID. Why the political élite’s obsession?:
https://x.com/james_freeman__/status/1815643017883119929
31. BBC has ‘fact-checked’ Labour’s renewables cheaper than gas claim as true. True to form, it’s actually false:
32. Khan’s driveway tax proposal supported by a deranged, blue-haired Evening Standard journo:
33. Digital ID is presented as for our “safety, convenience and security”. it’s actually about surveillance, government control, loss of freedoms & human dignity. Everyone needs to wake up before it’s too late:
https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/1815655860892320203
34. No case has been made for why UK needs #CBDC, except for creating a vast new web of financial surveillance & control:
https://x.com/BigBrotherWatch/status/1816519419310538854
35. Distortion of Climate Data using Computer Models:
36. e-Bike battery thermal runaway in the confined space of a lift kills man. Need any more be said?:
https://x.com/LeilaniDowding/status/1816942581311299994 &
https://x.com/i/status/1816886816332489202
37. ****More on Li-ion battery thermal runaway fires on ferries, in tunnels & in indoor car parks***:
38. Labour Government has launched its GB Energy Bill to much fanfare. What will it mean for consumers?
https://x.com/7Kiwi/status/1816491382200025122
39. A gas-fired power station currently delivers electricity for c.£50/MWh. Madman Miliband’s GB Energy will focus on tidal & floating offshore wind, costing around 5x as much; while claiming he’s going to cut bills:
https://x.com/aDissentient/status/1816501289116971311
40. Report confirms Labour’s energy plan is fantasy. More renewables now means throwing more power away:
https://www.energylivenews.com/2024/07/22/britain-set-to-fall-short-of-its-2030-clean-energy-target/
41. Wind and solar currently → 2% of UK electricity. Labour says it’ll be 100% by 2030. Lunatics at the helm:
https://x.com/TonyClimate/status/1815881573256065111
42. Labour will need new gas-fired power stations to provide reliable, despatchable baseload power:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/23/uk-may-need-new-gas-fired-power-stations-to-decarbonise-grid
43. Andrew Montford assesses the implications of Labour’s ill-advised renewables capacity expansion plans:
https://x.com/aDissentient/status/1815327254919975264
44. “Pie-in-the-Sky” Carbon Capture technology risks causing a Net Zero Nightmare for Labour:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/24/how-failure-carbon-capture-risks-net-zero-nightmare-labour/
45. Dozens of BEV drivers wait in line for up to two hours just to charge their cars. Do you think this problem will get better or worse as a result of the aggressive globalist push to achieve “net zero emissions”?:
https://x.com/i/status/1814996618250228197
46. Nannying new cars are an infuriating reminder we are STILL very much under Brussels’ thumb:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…
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Narrative Developments:
1. It’s not possible to ‘deny’ climate. But it’s reasonable to be unconvinced that 1/20,000th of a degree per day in temperature change is such a ‘crisis’ that it needs us to upend our civilisation:
https://x.com/latimeralder/status/1819654642508189745
2. There’s a glut of well-fed Icelandic polar bears, representing a ‘clear & present danger’ to humans:
Polar bear “boom” reported in East & Southwest Greenland comes with the usual problems
3. Man-made “Climate Change” is a Club of Rome PsyOp (Psychological Operation) mind-game:
https://x.com/robinmonotti/status/1819393065829765243
4. Long before 2030 we’ll find combining energy security with Net Zero by then is an unachievable pipedream:
https://reaction.life/combining-energy-security-with-net-zero-by-2030-is-a-pipe-dream/
5. “Control people through fear & demoralisation: it’s harder to govern an educated, healthy, confident nation”:
https://x.com/i/status/1817101172609552817
6. The real plan is mobility restriction via a big car ownership/ use reduction. This underlies the ICEV sales phaseout; & why the necessary energy infrastructure for mass BEV adoption isn’t being installed:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn09pvjpzdjo
7. On other than a heavily favourably canted playing field, ‘ruinables’ can NEVER be cheaper than CCGT:
https://x.com/LoftusSteve/status/1818590249217409506
8. Four weeks of Labour. Imagine how much more damage they’re capable of in another four years:
https://x.com/anthonyboutall/status/1819274370491015555
9. The “cows are bad for the planet” narrative is just another pretext to seize control of the global food supply:
https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1818990425727783027
10. Toxic by-products of ‘green’ energy:
https://x.com/i/status/1819531022276743476
11. Energy supply physics are going to ensure that David Miliband will fall flat on his political face:
12. European Electricity >2x those in USA → deindustrialisation. What happened to renewables 9x
