What’s Under the Hood: The Dirty Secrets Of ‘Clean’ Electric Vehicles

In their sillier moments, wind and solar advocates claim that we’ll all soon be driving electric vehicles, lovingly recharged with sunshine and breezes. In Australia, those seemingly virtuous souls with EVs are really being propelled by coal, because 85% of the electricity passing through its Eastern grid comes from coal-fired plants. It’s an irony, … Continue reading What’s Under the Hood: The Dirty Secrets Of ‘Clean’ Electric Vehicles

Electric Dreams: Energy Minister Pushes Coal-Powered Cars

Those virtuous few driving all-Electric Vehicles are bound to ignore the fact that their cars really run on coal. A few posts back, STT covered Energy Minister, Josh Frydenberg’s latest flight of fancy: Fossil Fuel Renaissance: Australia’s Energy Minister Promotes Coal-Powered Cars While there’s nothing wrong in theory about all-Electric Vehicles, if they really were a … Continue reading Electric Dreams: Energy Minister Pushes Coal-Powered Cars

Fossil Fuel Renaissance: Australia’s Energy Minister Promotes Coal-Powered Cars

Just when you thought Australia’s Energy Minister, Josh Frydenberg couldn’t get any more ridiculous, he outdoes himself. Presiding over a self-inflicted power pricing and supply calamity (for which his Liberal/National Coalition is just as culpable as the Green/Labor Alliance that helped set it up), Frydenberg has spent the last fortnight or so pushing all … Continue reading Fossil Fuel Renaissance: Australia’s Energy Minister Promotes Coal-Powered Cars