EV Subsidies vs. Results: Reality Check in Norway

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“The China study highlights that the government’s push to promote EVs may actually create a greater hurdle for it achieving its goal of restricting CO2 growth.”

Yesterday’s post noted That Tesla’s federal tax subsidies, which apply to the first 200,000 vehicles produced, could be reached and exceeded next year. In such an event, what happens to Tesla’s Model 3 backlog when price-sensitive EV buyers, who have ordered the car, realize it may be delivered without the tax subsidy?

The answer might be seen in the EU, where EV tax subsidies have been cut, leading to a sharp fall in sales. This recently occurred in Hong Kong, as I described last week. But other countries have put EV subsidies, and thus EV sales, on the bubble.

Norway’s EV Effort–But Oil Rises

Critics of EV studies such as that of Bloomberg New Energy Finance (NEF) point to the recent history of oil consumption in Norway, one of the leading EV success stories.…

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: July 24, 2017

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The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

Some of the more important articles in this issue are:

Property and wind turbines: A missing point in the discussion

Tourists shun areas hit by wind turbine ‘blight’

Navy: Interference From Wind Farms Dangerous to Military Aircraft

Study: A New Methodology for Investigating Turbine Infrasound Complaints

Wind turbines damage human health says Portuguese scientist

Wind and Solar Energy Are Dead Ends

The Best of Alex Epstein (so far)

73% Of World’s Renewable Energy Is Made By Burning Wood & Dung

The Trump Doctrine on Energy

Environmental Progress: a worthwhile site on nuclear power

Agenda Behind Global Warming Alarmism

A Step Toward Scientific Integrity at the EPA

Study: Temp Adjustments Account For ‘Nearly All Of The Warming’ In Climate Data

Most of what you’ve read about Greenland is wrong

Looks Like Global Action On “Climate Change” Is Dead

Leading Climate Scientist Says Debating Scientific Theories Would Be ‘Un-American’

EPA plans to challenge climate science in series of debates

Pittsburgh, Not Paris: Explaining the Climate Hysteria

Since Russia is in the news, here are some related recent stories not in the mainstream media:

Short Video: Russians Funding US Environmental Groups

Russia’s Propaganda War on Fossil Fuels

Why the Russians Conceived the Global Warming Scam

Russia as Media Manipulator: Nothing New

The Nazi Origins of Renewable Energy (and Global Warming)

Ecofascists Needed an Enemy, So They Chose Fossil Fuels

 

Greed Energy Economics:

Property and wind turbines: A missing point in the discussion

Study: Initiative to Save American Jobs

Short Video: Russians Funding US Environmental Groups

The left’s misleading green jobs claims

Oil and Gas in the Capitals

Wind and Solar: The Special Interest Effect

The Nazi Origins of Renewable Energy (and Global Warming)

California dumps millions of dollars of unusable renewable electricity to other states

World’s First Carbon-Capture Plant: The Worst Investment In Human History

How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA

Few benefit from many govt preferential treatment, everyone pays the price

Renewmaggedon – Solar, Wind Industries Dying as Subsidies Dry Up

Maryland to Prohibit Offshore Wind closer than 24 Miles

 

Turbine Health Matters:

Wind turbines damage human health says Portuguese scientist

Study: A New Methodology for Investigating Turbine Infrasound Complaints

Wind turbine syndrome: infrasound and fury

Wind Turbine Accidents: A Data Mining Study

Wind Turbine Accidents as of June 1, 2017

 

Renewable Energy Destroying Ecosystems:

Birding groups score win against proposed turbine project

An Environmentalist perspective: Wind Energy Has Vastly Damaged Vermont

Montana doing Bird and Bat Study

 

Miscellaneous Energy News:

Wind and Solar Energy Are Dead Ends

Navy: Interference From Wind Farms Dangerous to Military Aircraft

The Best of Alex Epstein (so far)

73% Of World’s Renewable Energy Is Made By Burning Wood & Dung

The Trump Doctrine on Energy

Environmental Progress: a worthwhile site on nuclear power

Study: Utility Electric Generation ‘in crisis’ Across US

Federal Govt May Try To Pre-empt State Renewable Energy Policies

A Day in the Life of a State Utility Commissioner

Russia’s Propaganda War on Fossil Fuels

Some NY Towns Saying NO to Wind Projects

A Quick Guide to Spotting Graphics That Lie

Defeating the Trolls

NYS Has a Serious Wind Energy Problem

Court Upholds Connecticut’s Renewable Program

K-12 Teachers are “Educated” about Renewable Energy

Insanity and hypocrisy Down Under

The Nation’s Power Grid and the Broken Window Fallacy

Grid Threat as EV Demand Surge & Consumers misled on Engine Efficiency

The Senate Should Approve Pending FERC Nominees

The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Millennial Problem — and How To Solve It

Ecofascists Needed an Enemy, So They Chose Fossil Fuels

Gas Plant to be Built to Augment Renewable Energy

 

Manmade Global Warming Articles:

Agenda Behind Global Warming Alarmism

A Step Toward Scientific Integrity at the EPA

Study: Temp Adjustments Account For ‘Nearly All Of The Warming’ In Climate Data

Most of what you’ve read about Greenland is wrong

Looks Like Global Action On “Climate Change” Is Dead

Leading Climate Scientist Says Debating Scientific Theories Would Be ‘Un-American’

EPA plans to challenge climate science in series of debates

Pittsburgh, Not Paris: Explaining the Climate Hysteria

Big Green Radicals

Why Christians Can’t Believe in Man-Caused Global Warming

Tired of Being Wrong, Climate Alarmists Move Doomsday to Next Century

China Urges The West To Reduce Emissions—While They Burn Coal & Get Rich

Germany is hypocritical regarding climate change

Why the Russians Conceived the Global Warming Scam

Russia as Media Manipulator: Nothing New

Response to MIT President: Paris Exit Scientifically Sound (Part 1 + Part 2)

Left-wing climate report claims Trump’s policies will kill millions — facts tell a different story

Study Blows Greenhouse Gas Theory Out of the Water

The Crisis of Integrity-Deficient Scientists

How to become a climate skeptic in 5 minutes

Environment: We’re in Era of Mass Extinction — of Reason

Who’s afraid of the big bad climate monster?

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Response to MIT President: Paris Exit Scientifically Sound (Part I)

By Willie Soon and Christopher Monckton of Brenchley -- July 5, 2017 12 Comments

– by Istvan Marko, J. Scott Armstrong, William M. Briggs, Kesten Green, Hermann Harde, David R. Legates, Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, and Willie Soon

MIT president’s letter repeats standard climate alarm claims. Here are the facts (also see Part II tomorrow).

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“Fortunately, contrary to Professor Reif’s claims, the actual current scientific understanding of Earth’s climate dispels the popular delusion that any manmade global warming will be dangerous. That means adhering to the Paris agreement would be ‘a bad deal for America,’ and not only on economic and equity grounds, as President Trump stated.”

“In the last 20 years, humans have released over a third of all the CO2 produced since the beginning of the industrial period. Yet global mean surface temperature has remained essentially constant for at least 15 years – a fact that has been acknowledged by the IPCC, whose models failed to predict it.”

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: July 3, 2017

By -- July 3, 2017 1 Comment

The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.

Some of the more important articles in this issue are:

Superior: New EU proposals would kill solar and wind

Study: Turbine Effects on Bats Likely Worse Than Thought

Study: Solar Energy’s Dirty Little Secret

Study: Large Solar Performance Reduction Due to Dust

Study: Evaluation of a proposal for grid power with 100% wind, water, and solar

Study: A Looming Disaster in Energy Security

Wind Turbines Are NOT Clean or Green, and Provide Zero Global Energy

Storage Burden Should Fall on Wind and Solar Projects, not the Grid

Wind Power’s Future in U.S.

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China’s EV Problem: Battery Depletion

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: June 12, 2017

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To Live and Breath in Beijing

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Energy & Environmental Newsletter: May 22, 2017

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Abolish Private Property in Water? California Needs Markets! (Stroshane reconsidered)

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“Fraud, Fake” … James Hansen on Paris (Trump should take note)

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