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I can't speak for the Canadian government - but to me this isn't about the better technology, it's about not cooking the planet. Given that 82% of electricity [

• jeffreyrogers 5y ago
  I think we'll burn most of the oil regardless of electric car adoption. It's just too convenient of a power source not to use.
• eyivghh 5y ago
  The Canadian electrical market is deeply integrated w/ the US’, so you have to average the US’ energy mix in. Furthermore, you have to consider that an extra electrical vehicle is charged on the margins. In some energy markets, even if they’re 80% renewable, that could mean the electrical car runs 100% on coal (much worse than gas). [1] In BC theres no problem because they have a certain type (easy to store) of hydro, but Im not sure about Ontario. And coal in the margins is very common, even though coal is dying. Coal and heavy oil plants have a huge advantage when it comes to stabilizing the grid - its easy to store thousands of tons of the stuff on-site. Therefore, in places like the N. East, very high CO2 emitting thermal plants are used in the winter to stabilize the grid (in the winter the NH4 pressure in the pipelines drops because of ppl heating their homes) [1] This is the same reasoning why flying across the world dead-head is basically zero-emission: the flight is flying anyway and your added weight is negligible. This is not the case for paid seats since airlines will switch planes, add new ones, depending on the tickets sold.