Wednesday, July 15, 2009

New Incentives for Electric Cars in Canada - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
Looking to put some spark in the green car market, Ontario today announced that it would be offering consumers subsidies of 4,000 to 10,000 Canadian dollars ($3,600 to $8,900) against the purchase of plug-in hybrid or battery electric vehicles, starting next July.
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In other Canadian electric car news, Vancouver’s council last week unanimously passed a bylaw that will require developers of new condos and multi-unit residential complexes to ensure that a fifth of on-site parking spaces have 240-volt electric-vehicle charging stations. The council also supported a pilot project for public charging sites.
James Delingpole: Miliband’s brilliant plan to combat climate change: ‘We’ll export unicorns to China’ - Telegraph Blogs
...So it was with a tremendous sense of deja vu that I heard Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband talking on this morning’s Today programme about his radical and costly new measures to tackle “global warming”.
CapitalClimate: Colbert Continues Climate Change Conquest: Ban de Soleil
Stephen Colbert carries on the war against climate change with a bold proposal: Increase carbon dioxide production to put out the sun's "dangerous, unchecked nuclear power."
Harsanyi: Science fiction czar - The Denver Post
Dr. John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy — better known as the "science czar" — has been a longtime prophet of environmental catastrophes. Never discouraged, but never right.

Thanks to resourceful bloggers, you can read excerpts online from a hard-to-find book co-authored by Holdren in the late 1970s called "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, and Environment."

In it, you will find the czar wading into some unpleasant talk about mass sterilizations and abortions.

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