A federal judge blocked the #Trump admin from freezing a $5 billion #Biden-era program to build a national network of #ElectricVehicle#ChargingStations. The ruling was a victory for a coalition of states that had sued over the order, arguing that federal agencies had unlawfully frozen the funds & halted approvals for new charging stations, depriving states of critical resources & damaging the growing #EV industry.

#law#Climate#FossilFuels
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/us/trump-news/2144bc8e-5e5f-5c81-852e-70c1cc33316a?smid=url-share

Thinking about the threads I posted about energy the other day. I knew that electric engines were far more efficient than even the latest combustion engines. But until I read Thorn's article on rewired.nz, I'd never joined the dots that this means we don't need the same number of calories of renewable energy to replace fossil fuel energy.

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#energy#RenewableEnergy #fossilfuels#FacileFuels

“This raises serious questions for New Zealand’s long-term energy security, given the absence of realistic alternatives to natural gas to power industries, heat our homes and keep electricity prices down”.

John Carnegie, CEO, Petroleum Exploration and Production Association of NZ, 2021

Naked self-interest much? I bet John is laughing all the way to the bank under the current regime.

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#energy#EnergySecurity#FossilFuels

"So, if we want to transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy, it's going to require our manufacturing an enormous number of PV panels and wind turbines. We're going to have to make that transition something like 10 times the current rate at which we're introducing renewable energy infrastructure."

#RichardHeinberg, 2017

https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/podcasts/greening-the-apocalypse/episodes/2430-greening-the-apocalypse-6-june-2017

#podcasts #RRR#GreeningTheApocalypse#RenewableEnergy#PealOil#FossilFuels

China's going to be fine.

"In China, people burned crude oil and gas for heat and light as early as 500 B.C. By the fourth century A.D., they were drilling for these natural resources and transporting it via bamboo pipes."

#HannahOsborne, 2024

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/the-165-year-reign-of-oil-is-coming-to-an-end-but-will-we-ever-be-able-to-live-without-it

#China #energy#FossilFuels#FossilOil#FossilGas #bamboo