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One can certainly be skeptical about such an announcement from a company that “didn’t even make cars a few years ago,” as Treehugger notes. “Until recently, it was only a battery maker (the biggest in China).” One might also be skeptical about plug-ins from a company whose name stands for Build Your Dreams and which touts its all-electric F3e vehicle as “Inheriting the design concepts of being Faddy, Faithworthy and Futuramic.”
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For those out there who say China won’t reduce the CO2 intensity of its electricity for decades, I would just reply, in that case, the world has no chance of avoiding catastrophic global warming anyway, so it doesn’t matter what anyone drives.

The Horner Chris-tal Ball - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

In several posts here on PG I noted how, once Kyoto can no longer be about George W. Bush, the media will pivot and begin asserting things in the “but, of course . . . ” vein, as if they’ve always been reporting things a certain way even though for seven years they refused to acknowledge, obfuscated, and even flat-out eh . . . misstated . . . certain inconvenient truths. My only mistake was to predict that they would wait until next month to do this.

I very specifically predicted the “But, of course the U.S. signed Kyoto but the Senate refused to consider/ratify it ...” line in rationalizing why the urgency for radical climate action would dissipate once Bush was gone. That which was feverishly demanded of Bush just won’t be so big a deal as to require drastic measures like, say, demanding the same thing of a President Obama.

NC Media Watch: Obama: "We will make decisions based on facts"

Stay Tuned! We will soon find out where Obama gets his climate change facts. And, if he truly is an honest politician who will rely on real world facts. I have my doubts, I think he prefers the facts provided by Green Peace, Sierra Club and Union of Concerned Scientist. God save us!