whether or not you want to be involved in politics, politics will be involved in your life. Especially at the local level, where the individual decisions more directly impact your everyday life where they are deciding zoning laws (for affordable, more dense housing), funding allocation (for if that new bike lane gets a hard barrier for protection or just some paint), and other regulations (like if EVs and hybrids will cost more for their annual registrations).
Australian democracy does a few things right. 1: compulsory voting, 2: ranked choice voting 3: polls open for around 2 weeks before the big day on a Saturday + postal voting + employers must give reasonable time for employees to vote 4: “democracy sausages” most polling stations are local schools. They often have bake sales and barbecues cooking sausages to raise money for the school or local organisation. Voting here feels like a nice community event.
Absolutely, you nailed it. Many thanks also to the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) an independent body that does a wonderful job of ensuring Australian elections are free and fair. AEC goes to a lot of trouble to ensure the voter rolls are accurately maintained, and the electoral boundaries are based on fair distributions. It efficiently manages postal and pre-polling and on polling day it ensures the voting stations are well managed. On election night the count is conducted quickly and efficiently. Thankfully there are no arguments over voting machines, because there aren't any. In Australia voting is strictly low tech. Ballots are on paper and marked with an AEC issued pencil ✏️ which you have to return. Close results are always subject to a recount. As a result, in Australia election day is a celebration, a fantastic demonstration of democracy in action. While wannabe autocrats and dictators might hate the system, I love it and hope it remains ever so.
Sounds like you guys are doing it right! @@jimgraham6722 Regarding paper ballots, funnily enough, something like 95% of voting in the US is done on paper as well. We don't have special pencils, but it sounds like our process is similar beyond that (in my area, we're given a freshly-printed ballot with the candidates' names, etc. on it and we use a black marker to fill-in the oval next to who/what we want to vote for). The bickering we have about "voting machines" here is about machines used to tally the paper ballots, a process that can easily be (and is, routinely) audited with hand recounts. It's a strange hill to die on.
@@SimJDKS fossil fuel companies lobby both Democrats and Republicans in the US. But only one of those parties denies the reality of human-caused global warming and rejects policies that encouraged getting off oil. (Although Republicans in many states look the other way while gigawatts of cheap and quick wind and solar get installed)
"Tactical voting" is exactly how America got into the mess we find ourselves in today. Jettison that bad advice and vote for those you REALLY want to see in office! I'm proud to say that I'm voting for Jill Stein and the Green Party in 2024!
Democracy starts with a free press, that have to be truthful. One of the reason why Norway are the number one democracy 7 years in a row, is that the press has it's own governing body. If what the news organization says are an obvious lie, they can get fined. And, if they attack private citizens unnecessarily, the same can happen. News organizations like News max, and fox news will have a hard time operating in Norway.
We need a third party fact checking system to rate news outlets. Unfortunately, a good number of people would just ignore it anyway because they don't believe in numbers anymore.
@@mikewallace8087 The truth hits some people hard...... i know, and I feel with you. And, yes the truth hurts. You know that a sect can only survive if the sect members don't ask questions and follow the leader.
The Norway Democracy is very similar to America's Constitutional Republic . Our Constitution is currently being disregarded by our current president and congress. The first two constitution amendments are under attack and trying to be dissolved . I see those two amendments as the bedrock upon which America's freedom stands upon.
In Colorado we have universal vote by mail. It's awesome. I'm unaffiliated so I get both primary ballots sent to me and I decide which to return; problem is all the candidates suck or are running unopposed. It won't be much better in the general. I have the choice between a pro-business anti-worker conservative running with a D next to their name, and a bonkers fishist candidate with an R next to theirs. Yeah, the D is better for most humans, still sucks how they put their --owners-- I mean donors above us people. Need money out of politics, ranked choice voting, and universal vote by mail with incentives to get more people voting. Say $20 when you return a properly filled out ballot. Getting rid of the electoral college would also be nice, it doesn't help small states, only gives undue power to a handful of swing states, but that's a problem that'll solve itself as soon as Texas goes blue once or twice. Red team will drop it as soon as it stops helping them win, and most of blue team is already against it.
I can't take credit for it, but someone on another platform recommended that all politicians should wear branded clothing and have logos on their cars showing who is sponsoring them.
It…… isn't public yet? Even if every Patreon subscriber has watched it yet (many don't even know videos are available early,) that would only be 10% of your view total ask.
@@AnonymousFreakYT good point! I forgot that. It had six views, but now that I check it it was an hour after the private posting so that's probably fair. I usually don't see these until a few hours or a day later.
@@LigmaJohnson-cf2ty registering to vote and being informed about the policy positions and funding of who you vote for seems pretty reasonable. The funding of politics by vested interests is not new, but it is definitely something it pays to understand if you want to vote for people who have a fighting chance of supporting things that matter to you whatever they are. Not sure what you are objecting to here?
I volunteered for an independent candidate in the election before last, hoping to knock off the Conservative Party incumbent. It felt a bit like screaming into a storm, and was unsuccessful, but was one of the more fulfilling things I have done in my life.
As much as I'm concerned about the environmental impact the Big oil influence on politicians will have, I fear the immediate impact of these far right parties if in power will have on persons like yourselves. and I'm not sure the UK will be safe to return too if the worst does occur
its now blatantly obvious, and has been for some time, that USA government is for Corporations and see the citizens as its income source. and will makes rules to ensure that those citizens keep on paying, and paying and paying.
The thing that makes me sad is that in the United States, conservatism and the right used to be a somewhat dependable and valid check on unlimited progress. It is, in essence at least, the function of those who are resistant to change. If the conservative parties have been doing their job over the last 30 years, we wouldn't have the unchecked power of meta, Google, Amazon, etc. Right to repair would have gained more traction. And yes, some things might have been slowed down, but the conversations would've been more meaningful. There is nothing essentially wrong with somebody asking the question "why do we need to change things?" thing that is wrong is when people either don't want to have the conversation and want to stop change for the sake of stopping change, or even worse, what we have now, which is incumbents in power who want to do whatever they think is necessary to maintain and expand that power.
some questions I would recommend: - what is your position on fuel subsidies? - Where do you stand on energy security, and do you have a policy which will help use renewable such as solar and wind to bolster our national energy security - how will you help further support charging standards for electric vehicles, as well as maintenance standards equivalent to those already in place for gas fueling stations to ensure that electric charging stations are functional - space do you support right to repair? What will you do to ensure that products we buy, including computer devices and electric vehicles, can be repaired by the mechanic or repair company of the buyers choice? - what changes will you put in place to ensure that electric vehicle mileage ratings are more reflective of real world usage? - How will you encourage vehicle manufacturers to train sufficient repair technicians so that they can handle repair and replacement of parts in electric vehicles?
Today, hybrids are the new EVs. Toyota’s 1:6:90 electrification plan is very sound. Lithium and other rare materials required to build one EV could also be enough to build 6 plug-in hybrids or 90 hybrids. Any reduction in carbon emissions helps the environment. To have an all or nothing with EVs represents flawed thinking or stupid logic. That black and white thinking leads to extremism or fanatical zealotry. It is nice welcome to see that the Biden administration is recognizing reality and is flexible in their plans. The EV mandate was driven by fanatics. Fanatics are the fringe part of society that needs to stand down.
The USA doesn't have a single Presidential Election. It has 56 separate Presidential Elections. That's because the USA is really a single country. It's 56 smaller countries (i.e. political "states") bound together. Think European Union if the EU Parliament had much, much more say in the laws of the different member states of the EU. It's right there in the name United STATES of America. So the politics that involve both the overarching Federal government and the individual State governments gets really, really messy.
151k subscribers, but this 12 day old video has 9.9k views and 240 comments. I searched for this channel to see what was new, ya'll never turn up in my feed. There's some suppression going on here 😢
I was just subjected to a BP advertisement while watching this video - bragging about both their investment in North Sea wind energy and continuing oil and gas production. "And, not or" was the key message. Coincidence??? It's like they aren't even bothering with greenwashing anymore. They are happy to talk about fossil fuel and, by the way, we've got a few wind farms....
If I was Big Oil and I wanted to get rid of EV's I would drop the price of oil by 50% for a couple of years. Then, I would start raising prices again slowly until EV's started coming back and then: donut again! But they are waaay to greedy .
The American Oil and to a lager extent the whole American fossil fuel industry is in a fight for its life as America's control of technology, geopolitics and wealth is slipping. Don't kid yourself, global oil consumption is still growing and even though some of that is getting covered by the biofuels sector the country needs to stay competitive on the global supply otherwise its at the mercy of the Foreign markets and the possibility of trade sanctions. Asia, the middle east and African nations have grown very tight with china and to a extent Russia. American geopolitics has essentially made Europe dependent on imports so they can no longer bail America out. how can the war machine keep running without its cheap and secure oil supply's?
My state and federal elections aren't until next year but we have already started election planning. Fossil fuel companies use something called Business councils which they pay into to go to dinners and brunches with politicans while us citizens struggle to get a meeting. Our state premier, climate change minister, federal opposition leader (different party to the rest) and federal resources minister were all at an Oil and Gas conference last week.
You are correct about rishi sunak wife and father in law who drill for oil ,and Israel has given them licences to drill for oil in gaza even though they don't own the land
Trump/conservatives etc would not have nearly enough of a chance to get into power if not for the duplicitous incompetence of the Biden/democrat admin. Relying on the bigger evil to scare voters into supporting you and your deep pocketed (and even genocidal) policies is just insidious. There's no such thing as democracy in America, it's a concession to a faux choice to yield power and mandate. People world wide can't keep pretending that there is any progress, just distractions from economic, climate and biodiversity collapse.
Wow yeah the tax on mileage of EVs horrible in that in households with ICE too have extra incentive to keep using ICE etc-yeah taxing HEAVIER vehicles that wear out roads fast makes sense & sometimes they have🔋
In the US we should roll our own "grass roots" organization to throw support behind EVs. In order to cast a wide net, we can play a bit fast and loose with the name. "MAGA For Electrons", maybe?
Imagine that, the Fossil Fuel Industry seeking to delay the inevitable. They've already caused dependence on Oil/Gas which have lead us to globalization, which has lead us to global wars/instability and suffering of millions over the past 140 years. Peak Oil is now in it's "Last Gasp" reaching for any measures to retain it's market share. I and hundreds of millions are awaiting to purchase our first BEV (Mine will be the Aptera) to never spend another Nickel on Oil again ~ !
Yes. Planning on switching careers to HVAC tech in order to mitigate both Climate change (modern heat pumps are amazing) and the ongoing pandemic (covid is airborne, and did not go away just because we were told to go back to work).
How did you do that? So no plastics, food, tires, transport, healthcare and the list goes on. You must be the only one in the world that has done that. Congradulations. But how did you veiw and respond to this vlog if you have completely gone fossil fuel free?
@@244col "Stopped BUYING fossil fuels". Are plastics, food, tires, healthcare fossil fuels? No. In New Zealand 74% of oil consumed is burned in motor vehicles, and 67% of them are cars. If everyone followed this person's example then oil consumption would halve and Big Oil would be in big trouble.
@@bhabbottFossil fuels are hydrocarbons and are burned during the production of pretty much everything, food being a big one. Ethane a fossil fuel is key ingredient of most plastics. The bitumen your EV travels on is fossil fuel. Using any of these products is effectively " buying fossil fuels". Think of the plastic waste from the health care industry being incinerated. Why does it burn so well??? Fossil fuels within it. Its close to impossible not to buy fossil fuels or hydrocarbons in some form in our modern world like it or not.
I'll be voting for the Green Party on the 4th July. The Green Party are targetting Bristol central, but i'm registered in Brislington which is more south Bristol. You really can't trust either Starmer or Sunak, and my current MP is a Starmer loyalist who needs to loose her seat. It's obvious the Tory's are going to get a hammering at the election, but this current Labour Party definitely don't deserve all the power, they just can't be trusted.
@@transportevolved I left in 1998, so I think I remember it well. Centainly Brislington Comprehensive is difficult to forget. Soon I might be able to vote in Germany as well, they recently changed to law to enable foreigners getting German citizenship, (although I do need to get a job before they would ever dream of giving me German citizenship). But I don't know who I would vote for in Germany the Greens are good at political demonstrations, but not good at running the government.
shane , if you don't know what the opposition stance is on known information for comparison you become a supporter of an Ideology . You have not performed any critical comparisons a.k.a. debating the knowns . But the future is always uncertain .
"THEY" are "collectively desperate for (we the people) NOT to turn to public transit or electric vehicles or human powered vehicles or renewable energy . . . " --- Aptera rings two of those 'bells' at the Same Time. (If Chris Anthony and Steve Fambro turn out to be good enough "pedlars" to push their San Diego company "over the Hump," and into true Production.)
Thanks for an excellent video, well balanced with highlighting how bad the problems are, but encouraging us to take positive action, not just to criticise the bad guys. Thanks also for the UK transparency sites you mentioned - I shall be using those and letting others know about them too. Great job!
I have no doubt that videos like this are what leads to a lot of the wrath often mentioned in related comments sections, but the subject, the details, and the information provided are crucial to anyone who enters a ballot box. Keep up the great work!
It’s great news that more and more countries have voted for the centre right and right parties. The Greens have been in decline. The future looks positive for the decline of the EV nonsense.
You’re asking people to spend less time watching their favorite Netflix show just to learn about which politicians their electing? Its so much easier to just watch Fox News and be told who to vote for like a sheeple.
he said that? That's quid pro quo and illegal as all hell. But then trump doesn't play by the rules. The legal community should back him - he's spending a lot on legal fees!
He treats lawyers like dirt, too. Makes them lie then throws them under the bus. Doesn't pay them.. Ruins their careers with hopeless causes. Acts like a loose cannon and contradicts their advice.
Definitely need to be aware of the misinformation from big oil and need to counter the lies. As far as pumping oil, we still need oil, the transition is tricky. Need to make sure the disruption of the transition is as smooth as possible.
The stupid part is that we could have given the oil industry a soft landing. In 1997 we had about 50 years to phase out fossil fuels. That gives you time to replace things like furnaces and cars as they reach the end of their useful life with electric versions (modern heat pumps are amazing). 50 years was enough time to roll out nuclear power to develop synfuels for industries that can not easily stop burning hydrocarbons: such as long-haul aviation and shipping. But instead we got over 25 years of delay. The "carbon budget" has not changed in the mean-time, so now we have an extra 25 years of fossil carbon emissions in the atmosphere. We no longer have 50 years to phase out fossil fuels in order to avoid catastrophe. We now have 6 years (2030 deadline instead of 2050). This means that we will need to throw out a new gas water heater in 7 years, before is it likely to break on it's own. I DID have enough pull to get our 40 year old electrical panel upgraded to 125A (from 100A) when it was replaced recently (we got lucky: #0 Al was used instead of #2 Cu for the buried line due to a Cu shortage in the 70s).
I hate to disagree but "Oil and Gas" does the heavy lifting within land, air and sea transport plus heating. It is a fantasy to think that Lithium batteries are going to replace oil and gas in the next 2 or more decades. The net effect is "electrification" is no more green than best case oil and gas power. I stuggle with that most Teslas are driven with idiocy, not intelligence, with idiotic acceleration, unnecessary braking, excess speed and weight.
I am expecting to install a lot of heatpumps over the next 6 years as we phase out fossil fuels for heating. The more we delay: the more urgent action becomes. The reason is that our "carbon budget" (to hold the line a 1.5C or 1/3 of an XKCD ice age unit) remains fixed. Every year we delay advances the deadline to phase out fossil fuels by 2 years. If you think that it would take over 20 years to phase out fossil fuel: we should have had a $200/ton carbon tax in place sometime around 2015.
The problem is a couple generations that think they are special. Government may not actually have your best interest at heart, it generally has the greatest number of peoples interests at heart and that may not necessarily mean you. Get over it.
@@racingtogreen2023 Govt employees only care about 1 thing and we should all know this by now. They will do what ever it takes to stay in Office, to stay in Power, to stay in control of the Money. That is what Govt wants. They could care less about anything else. Else every single blind Joe Biden supporter would have dumped there cars and staff cars for EV's. For some reason they have not ?
I went to a building site this morning and there electric digger tripped the electric last night so this morning the worker came to site and couldn't do any work because the machine had a flat battery
So, I am conflicted. While I understand the "spoiler effect" - this also reinforces anti-democratic voting by forcing people to vote for a less than ideal candidate simply because it might help someone more less desirable get into office. Instead, I advocate people vote for the candidates that prefer, consequences be damned. But, that's me. I'm tired of being told to "vote for the party not the man (or woman)" - to me, some things are more important.
You are likely lucky to be someone whose life wouldn't be severely impacted if "the wrong candidate won." I have family members who had to move out of the state they lived in because their state made parts of their life illegal. I may not like all of the candidates I vote for, but I know there are certain candidates I _absolutely_ do not want to win. I will "hold my nose" and vote for someone I really dislike, because it's a far FAR better choice than the other candidate winning. At the same time, I voted for my locale's "ranked choice voting" that will take effect this next election (for local elections only, sadly.) And I promote changing *ALL* elections to that, so that there isn't a "spoiler" and you can vote for who you **really** want, without risking someone who wants you dead being elected instead.
@@AnonymousFreakYT The problem with voting for the "lesser evil" is that the "lesser evil" party needs a credible threat that you will vote for other candidates to actually listen to your concerns. One way to make the "big tent" parties to listen to your concerns is actually to vote third-party. I guarantee you that the "big tent" parties want to avoid vote splits more than you do. When a third-party starts getting too many votes, or even support in polling (not that polls ask about third parties), the "big tent" parties start adopting their policies. That is why Marijuana is now legal in Canada. The Marijuana Party was enjoying more and more support every election.
@transportevolved I guess I just wish for you guys that you had preferential voting. If Biden can suddenly decide to "close the border" because he thinks it will gain voters.. for example, it kind of sucks. But I hear where you're coming from - it's not an area I know much about. Happy to find out more, will have a look into it
@@transportevolved correct and Biden would be one of those unsuitable genocidal candidates or do you not care about brown people just because they’re someplace else
@@transportevolved can’t get much less suitable than Biden, a genocidal maniac but of course if you don’t care about brown children, as long as there’s someplace else who cares
Free enterprise should drive the market, which is full of choices. Looking at history of energy usage, changes are never smooth and easy. Bumps are bound to happen, stuttering in transition to a different way is the norm. The infrastructure around the oil industry is not a small investment, taken over 100 years to build to where it is now. No matter those nasty fossil fuel people don't want change. Change is difficult, however it is inevitable. Stay tuned.
If you want to electrify everything, you will need tons of copper for all of the additional electrical power production plants, tons more copper for all of the wiring in-between, tons more copper for all of the sub-station transformers to step that up/down or do AC-DC-AC/DC-AC-DC conversions, even more copper for storage systems to fill in the gaps between generation and consumption, all of the electric motors everywhere, all of that additional wiring, etc. 22MT/year may not be enough to keep up once you add all of the non-electrical stuff that also requires copper.
If the grid can handle the peak supper hour load: it can handle vehicle charging overnight (assuming they don't charge during the peak demand time). The only caveat is that residential distribution transformers tend to be under-sized on the assumption that they will have time to cool off overnight. Average commute distance in the US: 42 daily miles Driving to/from work represents 30% of vehicle miles driven, so we can bump up the daily distance to (1/0.3)(42)= 140 Miles 225.308km Assuming 20kWh/100km (typical of a larger EV): (20kWh)(2.25308)=45kWh/night. 45kWh/8hours=5.6kW Typical L2 chargers in NA are 7.7kw (240V, 32A (40A derated 20%)): (45kWh)(1000W/kW)/240V/32A=5.859 hours of charge time. That means that one can plug in their car, wait for peak electrical demand to subside around midnight (this is automated), and still be fully charged by 6AM.
@@jamesphillips2285 I should have phrased that slightly differently: "decarbonify everything." If you want to replace all carbon-based power generation, you will need 3-5X as much renewable power generation capacity to ensure you at least break even on average, always have enough power generation and transport capacity to refill storage in a timely manner, have spare transport capacity to shift GWs of power from areas with excess energy to areas with deficits, etc. If you deploy 100s of GWs of solar and wind, that is 100s of GWs that can ebb and swell at the drop of a hat or need to get fanned out across a much larger area to even things out. You need a lot of extra infrastructure to stabilize the grid against that.
Except Trump he is openly taking bribes from Oil Companies and is planning on killing EV's and Renewable Energy. If Musk thinks he can suck up to Trump and change his mind there are billions in oil company profits that will say otherwise.
if biden just cared more about the environment then the unions he might not be a total loss at president, BUT weve learned about all he cares about when it comes to vehicles. no reasonable person believes that one can talk about EVs while pretending TESLA doesnt exist, but thats bidens strong point.
@@scottmcshannon6821 Fair point. Musk is almost single handedly saving America auto manufacturing. Biden is just trying to save his election donations.
As a convicted felon, Trump has shown he cares only for himself. While not perfect and no man is, Mr. Biden is surely the better choice if one cares about the state of the world's environment.
First its not fossils turning into oil. 2nd oil is a naturally occurring substance so oil is as green as it gets. Just stop get help. You are making statements without understanding anything outside your own bubble.
@@michaeloreilly657 Heck, they don't even understand the s**t IN their own bubble. How oil forms is reasonably well-documented, we all can read and nitpicking details that have NOTHING to do with the central argument is surely covered by one or another fallacies. Deathshade mushrooms are also "organic" and "natural", would it be wrong of me to suggest they dine on them and "improve the world"?
