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@knittingknots2

Meanwhile in Uruguay

Plug baby plug

In the United States, President Biden has set a goal to reach 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035. But Uruguay has almost reached that goal already. In a typical year, 98% of Uruguay's grid is powered by green energy.

( forget the part of the sentence sayin in the us.... )
npr.org/2023/10/06/1197954251/

#us#uruguay#ukraine

Tax breaks given to mining companies for diesel, (Fuel Tax Credits Scheme) was worth $4.8 billion to the mining industry in 2024-2025.

I would have less objection to paying a per-km road use charge for driving an EV to offset the revenue lost from the fuel excise if the government discontinued the FTCS breaks for fossil fuel miners, which gives them a massive discount on the fuel excise. Because without that we would be effectively paying for the extraction of coal and gas by driving our EVs. Utter madness.

#auspol #FTCS #GreenEnergy #EV #Labor
drive.com.au/news/australian-e

DriveAustralian electric-car road-user tax now a Federal Government 'priority' – reportA road user charge on electric cars is closer than ever, intended to recoup falling revenue from fuel excise.

@ChrisMayLA6 Back in the 70s the transition from Town Gas to Methane (initially from the North Sea) meant a huge cost in upgrading every home appliance and the pipeline infrastructure - It would have been much cheaper to crack the gas at the coast and just use the aging and dangerous infrastructure!

We need not walk away from this massive investment as we move away from fossil fuels. We can enrich our gas supply (up to 20%) with hydrogen from renewable sources using the existing distributed storage

Electric boilers in homes is a wasteful nonsense that just puts more stress on network storage.

While we are certainly seeing a shift to green energy in the UK, unfortunately because storage issues remain largely unresolved, we still contract for significant back-up capacity when normal (renewable) sources of power cannot meet peak demand.

And those 60% of those back up sources remain fossil fuel assets....

If you needed an argument why investment in network storage is required, this would be in it!

#GreenTransition #GreenEnergy #fossilfuels

theguardian.com/business/2025/

The Guardian · UK has spent £12.5bn from energy bills on fossil fuel power plants in past decadeBy Jillian Ambrose