One Republic
I went to the Central Branch of RPL tonight for a Bike Regina podcast recording. While there I picked up a pile of CDs including One Republic The Collection. Hearing…
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CBC and CPC Disinforming Public on EVs
I’m hesitant to share this video link. The problem is, someone might watch it, and not realize everything she says is untrue. This problem is amplified by the CBC not…
Heat wave
#climateChange
Wheres there’s smoke…
#ldnont, #cars, #fire
EV Tax Goes Up
It’s been a hard month for people with electric vehicles. Not only do many face unfair criticisms for having Tesla vehicles before the company CEO came out as a racist…
Boxing Day 2024
What happened today? I was driven around Regina while the Youngest kiddo and his friend went Boxing Day shopping in the Cornwall Centre. We then went to south Albert St.…
Electric Car Interest Is NOT Going Down
New ZEV registrations are up in every reporting province from 2023 2nd quarter to this year’s second quarter. People who say that “interest in EVs is decreasing”, are simply lying…
Updated for 2024: Civic Hatchback vs. LEAF Hatchback
In 2019 I wrote a guide for people to help them decide which vehicle type saved them more money: an affordable used EV with a solar panel grid-tied system, or…
Pro-Car Planning is Destroying Collingwood’s Environment
I warned you: Council would support the anti-resident/anti-environment/pro-vehicle attitude that pervades town hall. I warned you they would deforest Sixth Street to make it a bigger, faster speedway for vehicles.…
Traffic Calming: Not My Job Say Town Staff
No residents have been successful in three years in meeting all the town’s absurdly stringent requirements for investigation of the installation of even rudimentary traffic calming in their neighbourhoods. That’s…
Johns Hopkins: Narrow Lanes Save Lives
Johns Hopkins has reached a conclusion: to protect lives we need to narrow lives. Cars kill. Cars (and the people driving them) are more likely to cause death when they…
Mobile Pollution Boxes Need to Pay to Enter Manhattan
Cars take up a lot of space in urban centres and deprive non-car owners of previous real estate and a clean environment. Yet, for years we have let car drivers…
Speed Cameras = Safer Streets
I live in a city where the police stopped enforcing traffic laws, so we’ve seen increased harm done by car drivers on people outside of cars. When the laws of…
Idle Math
Your gas car burns at least 0.5gal/h while bigger trucks can burn .8gal/h of fuel when just sitting there running doing nothing for transportation. 0.5gal is 1.89L. That’s 1.89 *…
Saskatoon Hate
2 Catholic school administrators did damage to their city’s reputation by discouraging teachers and then parents from allowing their kids to attend a welcoming and inclusive space at a corporate…
Humans Should Rank Higher Than Drivers
Hey @CityofVancouver? this is second incident I’ve seen caused by these useless ‘slow street’ barricades installed last month. They don’t slow down traffic; they cause crashes and traffic chaos. pic.twitter.com/A4xZOwMCGi…
Debunking A MAGA Video Against EVs
I got a mass email two days ago with a video attached of the Republican McClintock spouting lies and misdirection about EVs, oil, climate change, and his place in history.…
People Who Ditched Their Car Are Happier
There’s are individuals who advocate against making our cities better places to live because they fear losing their dependence on their automobile (car marketers encourage this too). We need to…
Why Drive A Gas Car When There Are EVs?
The following was given as a presentation to the Unitarian Fellowship of Regina. I enjoyed my time this morning after being invited to speak about Electric Vehicles. == Most adults…
Another Urban Myth Busted
Road users always complain that other people are breaking the law, every group of road users accuess another of breaking the most traffic rules. Truckers think cars are the worst,…