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Category Archives: Transportation
Who killed GM’s non-electric cars? The government did
U.S.-Canada Auto Pact’s fuel-economy regulation established subsidies, handouts that carmakers now love to game. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Oil, Transportation
Tagged cars, Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE), General Motors
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USMCA could kill Canadian retailers. Here’s how to save them (without handouts)
Under the new trade deal, shopping in Canada will often be too pricey to compete. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Natural Gas, Toll Roads, Transportation
Tagged Canadian retail industry, toll roads, USMCA
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Lawrence Solomon: Self-driving cars will never live up to the hype
They’re being pushed on uninterested consumers who, really, just want to drive their own private vehicle. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Transportation
Tagged self-driving cars, Traffic congestion
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Lawrence Solomon: How Tesla’s Elon Musk became the master of fake business
Musk’s genius is primarily in the subsidy-seeking realm. By 2015, U.S. governments alone had given his companies US$5 billion through direct grants, tax breaks, cut-rate loans, tax credits and rebates. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy Probe News, Transportation
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I knew Jane Jacobs, and everything urban lefties say about her is wrong
Jane was anything but anti-development and anti-change. Her thinking transcended cities to include economic development and wealth creation generally. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Privatization, Uncategorized
Tagged economic development, Jane Jacobs, Lawrence Solomon, Sam Sullivan
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Parker Gallant: Liberal gas plant report: keep moving folks, nothing to see here!
(February 22, 2015) MPP Shafiq Oaadri, Chair, of the Standing Committee on Justice Policy presented the “Liberal” member’s perspective to the Legislature on “The Cancellation and Relocation of the Gas Plants and Document Retention Issues” several days ago.
Posted in Climate Change, Costs, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Electricity, Power Generation in Ontario, Privatization, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Utility Reform
Tagged Climate Change, electricity, green energy, natural gas, Ontario Power Authority, Parker Gallant, Renewable Energy, subsidies, wind turbines
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Lawrence Solomon: Subways, profitable subways
Politics have transformed once economic subways into an unaffordable public transit option. Continue reading
Fairness on the road
(June 12, 2014) Road tolls don’t deprive people of options, they add travel options for all, improving the quality of life. Continue reading
Posted in Public Transit, Toll Roads, Transportation
Tagged commuters, Lawrence Solomon, privatization, public transit, toll roads
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Lawrence Solomon: Fill ‘er up, with people
(January 16, 2014) Traffic congestion would disappear if the government regulations that cause it were abolished. Continue reading
Parker Gallant: Pumped storage equals pumped energy prices
(November 18, 2013) As Hans and Franz of SNL fame used to say, “we want to pump you up,” and that appears to be what Northland Power Inc. want to do with a water-filled abandoned iron ore mine in Marmora, Ontario. Continue reading
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