One of the most repeated arguments against electric vehicles is that the electric power grid can not handle tens of millions of electric vehicles. This is simply false, but not for the reasons you may suspect: 1 – Slow Drip, Not a Surge Probably the biggest mistake pundits infer is […]
Publicly Alberta Bill 81 (2021) was proposed by the UCP Government to block foreign influences on Alberta elections and it has a pretty good veneer of legitimacy: However, like all such laws, the devil is in the details and Mr Madu forgot to mention some mighty nasty changes Bill 81 […]
If you pay attention to the business press, or Rivian and Tesla fan-boys (and I own a Tesla… my second Tesla actually), you will hear that Ford, General Motors and all the other “legacy” car builders are doomed. They give Tesla unlimited credit for executing to perfection their vision while […]
If you live in Alberta or Quebec these are a particularly important questions. Quebec continues to receive tens of billions of dollars in transfer payments that are effectively paid for by Alberta, even though Alberta has been dealing with a crushing economic turn down in their primary industry, oil and […]
What’s the Problem With Energy These Days? For those of us who live in North America, recent price hikes in Natural Gas, Gasoline and Diesel have largely gone unnoticed. It is not cold enough for those using NatGas to heat their homes enough to notice the giant increase in price […]
Hydrogen has been next years technology for 25 years, so why should anyone thing that is going to change now. There have been several breakthroughs that make hydrogen a real option for passenger cars in the very near future. Proton Technologies of Calgary has patented a simple way of extracting […]
Over the last few years there have been an inordinate number of silly conspiracy theories covering everything from the 2016 US Presidential election to Ted Cruz’s Father being involved in the JFK assassination. At PartisanIssues we stick to facts and avoid opinion so let us state unequivocally it is our […]
To be sure, Bitcoin and blockchain technologies are here to stay… at least for a while. There is much good with Bitcoin but there are also some serious issues. If you are thinking about Bitcoin or Ethereum or other blockchain technologies as a currency or store of value, you need […]
There are many Bitcoin proponents and many more that see real value in ‘block chain’ technology so we enlisted the help our tech friends at URTech.ca to look into it further and help us explain the good, the bad and ugly of this new crypto-currency world. First, you need to […]
Now that COVID-19 has had its first year anniversary in Western countries, it is a good time to calculate some metrics. In particular, how much spending did governments do to fight COVID19 and keep their economies moving. Estimates of how much money each country spent on COVID-19 are difficult to […]
At PartisanIssues, we work hard to focus on facts and not opinion, and we avoid municipal issues like the plague. However, a week ago it was brought to our attention that the City of Chestermere passed a “PUBLIC CONDUCT AND CIVIL DISCOURSE POLICY” which we feel is important enough to […]
This is the second of our two part series on the good and bad of electric vehicles. The first article Whats Wrong With Electric Vehicles? 12 Myths & 2 Truths is available as a video HERE and this article will explore the many hidden advantages of electric vehicles. Of course […]
As we explained in the fall of 2020 which was a follow up to our spring of 2020 article the oil industry, in spite of drastically lower wind and solar prices, has continued to exist. In fact the massive downturn in the oil industry in 2015 combined with Russia and […]
This is part one of a two part series on the costs and benefits of electric vehicles. If you want the flip side of this article, read our The Hidden Advantages of Electric Vehicles article. Here we explore 14 reasons many people say they will not buy an electric vehicle. […]