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An Excellent Green Energy Proposal From France, President Biden Should Pay Attention

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‘Regulatory Break’ in Green Laws to Help Industry

I am not accustomed to seeing good proposals from France, but here goes: Macron Calls for ‘Regulatory Break’ in Green Laws to Help Industry 

Addressing a crowd of industrialists at the Élysée Palace on Thursday, Macron presented the pillars of the future French “green industry” law.

To speed up industrial processes and achieve the objectives already set, Macron called for “a European regulatory pause” on environmental constraints.

“We are implementing what we have decided, but we must stop adding to it,” the president said in a speech on Thursday.

“The risk we run is, basically, of being the best performers in terms of regulation and the worst performers in terms of financing,” he added.

Reaching the targets already set at EU level “requires a certain stability so that our companies can plan ahead”, Industry Minister Roland Lescure told EURACTIV France.

Macron Calls for a Green ‘Pause’

The Wall Street Journal reports Macron Calls for a Green ‘Pause’

These are strange days when even Europe is starting to doubt the wisdom of its green agenda. Witness a speech last week by French President Emmanuel Macron in which he suggested that Europe may already have enough environmental regulation and doesn’t need more. Sacre bleu!

Mr. Macron called for a “regulatory break” on environmental matters in Europe. “We’re ahead of the Americans, the Chinese or any other global power in regulatory terms,” he said. “Now we need to execute” rather than add more pages by the hundreds to the green rulebook. Note he was speaking to a room full of industrial executives on how to reverse deindustrialization and revive French manufacturing.

Meanwhile, the Biden Administration presses relentlessly ahead with onerous rules in the name of climate change that will raise costs for Americans on everything from electric power to cars to home appliances. What a world when France is more sensible than the U.S.

A Pause is Good, a Rollback Better 

A pause is good but a rollback of Biden-sponsored madness would be much better. 

President Biden should pay attention. But is he even awake? 

US manufacturers are struggling with costs and Bidens regulations. In particular,  automakers cannot make a profit even with huge subsidies. 

Et Tu, Canada

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Hoot of the Day: The UAW Demands a “Just Transition” to Electric Vehicles

Everything Biden does adds inflation pressures.

Note The Inflation Reduction Act Price Jumps From $385 Billion to Over $1 Trillion

And if you missed it, please see Hoot of the Day: The UAW Demands a “Just Transition” to Electric Vehicles

Expect more of the same when Biden tries to impose a “just transition” to EVs.

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Runnin
Runnin
3 years ago
As a French speaker, I went over and read the article on France24. I think what Macron is proposing isn’t a suspension in the sense that climate regulations are not necessary or proper, but merely that businesses need certainty to act and develop a 5-year plan based on the rigorous policies already in place. Then the environmental regs can be revisited and, if necessary, tightened. The markets want predictability more than anything. Incidentally, this is why the IRA is good policy because the EV credits extend for 10 years, which is much better than the first 200,000 units produced. This gives auto manufacturers a reason to go all-in on reshoring their production and also for mining companies to commit to getting lithium and other necessary metals out of the ground.
The sentiment is not unlike the intra-left discussions of the need to allow transmission projects to be approved quicker and not get mired down in endless environmental morass. Or consider the recent comments made regarding CA’s rail comment on how the National Environmental Policy Act is costing the high-speed rail project:
“When the National Environmental Policy Act makes us think really hard about building a 14-lane highway, that’s a good thing because 14-lane highways are terrible for the environment,” said Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass. “But when it makes high-speed rail so difficult to build in America, something that’s so fundamentally good for the environment, then we’ve got a problem. And that’s where we need reform.”
Too much of a good thing isn’t a good thing, or so the saying goes. CEQA is endlessly abused to prevent the building of homes in CA, which is quite frankly a perversion of the law.
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MPO45v2
MPO45v2
3 years ago
France with a good proposal? And Nigel Farage admits brexit was a failure? Oh my god, what world are we living in now, the Twilight Zone? There are lots of lessons learned from this fiasco but I’m sure they will be repeated again and again.
“What Brexit has proved, I’m afraid, is that our politicians are about
as useless as the commissioners in Brussels. We’ve mismanaged this
totally,” Farage said, responding to a raft of data suggesting there had
been a negative economic impact of Brexit.
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Rbm
Rbm
3 years ago
Politicians sitting in a room full of industry leaders will say something different than when talking in a room full of voters.
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RonJ
RonJ
3 years ago
“A Pause is Good, a Rollback Better”
I just don’t see governor Hochul as getting rid of her gas stove, to fight climate change. I don’t see her as ending her meat consumption, to fight climate change. I don’t see her as running a single 60 watt equivalent LED light bulb, in whatever room she is occupying at home, to fight climate change.
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Toutatis
Toutatis
3 years ago
translation : “The number of birds has declined by 25% in 40 years on the European continent, even by nearly 60% for species in agricultural environments. Intensive agriculture is the main pressure associated with declining bird populations. These results come from the largest and most comprehensive study of birds in Europe to date.”
Probably nothing will be done against this….
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TexasTim65
TexasTim65
3 years ago
Reply to  Toutatis
What does this have to do with going green?
A big part of the decline in birds is the decline in their food supply (insects). World wide insect counts are way down (up to 60%) so the bird population must also be in decline because there is less food.
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Toutatis
Toutatis
3 years ago
Reply to  TexasTim65
I think that “going green” should take care of this as a priority. You are right for the cause of extinction of birds. I have remarked on my fruit trees that there is more and more damage caused by birds. Probably they try to find a substitute since there are much less insects.
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Maximus_Minimus
Maximus_Minimus
3 years ago
Reply to  Toutatis
Spot on. Probably means nothing to the population that cares not for nature if not hate it.
The way to reduce environmental degradation is by planned population decrease.
In Europe, this is naturally happening if it wasn’t for the dumbaz political class for whom woke immigration policies is the answer to all questions.
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Zardoz
Zardoz
3 years ago
Doesn’t make much sense to build that stuff until after war has devastated the continent.
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babelthuap
babelthuap
3 years ago
The country where the Paris Agreements were spooled up wants to simmer the agreements down? Makes about as much sense as the country with the most nuclear power not advocating for everyone else to use more nuclear. Oh wait, it does makes sense. Same country.
As for EVs, there are couple of topics that have yet to be addressed. One being no substance can do what oil does and as dirt cheap as oil. The other are people showcasing how much money they are saving with their EV like my niece only to spend the savings on more things made with oil. She’s not buying less clothes, shoes, makeup, eating out less and taking less plane trips. She’s doing MORE of these things yet still taking the pious position she is doing something positive for the environment…meh. “Saving” the planet is probably not going to work out anything like how people think it’s going to go down if it ever does go down.
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KidHorn
KidHorn
3 years ago
Reply to  babelthuap
The cost of ownership of EVs is clearly less than a gas car. I can drive 250 miles for $10, charging from home. I charge after midnight when costs are a lot lower. I don’t need oil changes. I don’t need emissions tests. There are far fewer parts to break. The only thing that costs more are tire replacements. The tires wear out faster because the cars are heavier. But mostly it’s because EVs accelerate a lot faster than gas cars and people do it a lot. It’s mainly because of bad driving habits.
I do agree the best thing for the environment is to buy less and eat dinner at home from food bought at a grocery store. And travel less. Wonder how many of the preachy elite would be willing to give up eating dinner out and not vacationing far away.
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Captain Ahab
Captain Ahab
3 years ago
Reply to  KidHorn
Operating cost and life cycle cost are two different things. However, your point about changing behavior is a good one.
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KidHorn
KidHorn
3 years ago
Reply to  Captain Ahab
EVs win on both.
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Captain Ahab
Captain Ahab
3 years ago
Reply to  KidHorn
Does your life cycle include the massive expansion of the grid, and building charging stations, and fires, and replacing/getting rid of lithium?batteries.
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backhousepirate
backhousepirate
3 years ago
Reply to  Captain Ahab
Does it include battery replacement? Does it include the Congolese people dying to mine the minerals for your batteries? Some Black Lives Matter but not those. Do you care?
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paperboy
paperboy
3 years ago
Reply to  KidHorn
unless your cars battery gets scratched and the insurance company junks it
Scratched EV battery? Your insurer may have to junk the whole car | Reuters
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TexasTim65
TexasTim65
3 years ago
Reply to  KidHorn
Unfortunately many places don’t give discount rates for night electricity use (Florida for example). Then again we don’t have emissions test either 🙂
One thing that is going to go up for EV costs will be yearly licensing. That’s because governments need to replace the lost revenue from gas taxes and the way they will do that is charge more for EV licensing. Presumably based on miles driven but could be a flat fee.
EV’s being heavier is something hardly anyone talks about. Fatal accidents (and ones with crippling injuries) are going to rise dramatically as more and more EV’s come into use because the extra mass of the vehicle is going to increase damage done (simple physics).
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backhousepirate
backhousepirate
3 years ago
Reply to  babelthuap
My observation is, liberals are like adolescents and do the things that make them feel good and what the other cool kids are doing. No regard for the consequences nor the interest/vision as to how their actions actually affect reality.
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Columbo
Columbo
3 years ago
Nuclear fusion is the way to a greener future. The race is on to develop and commercialize it.
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KidHorn
KidHorn
3 years ago
Reply to  Columbo
If it ever happens, it’s going to take decades before we see a profitable fusion plant.
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astroboy
astroboy
3 years ago
Reply to  KidHorn
Yeah, it won’t happen for a good while yet. I used to do research in it. But better to do the research now rather than later, it’s not like it’s busting the federal budget…. In the really long term, fusion seems like the best option.
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KidHorn
KidHorn
3 years ago
I think the move to EVs would happen without government mandates. We might not have gotten to where we are now, but going forward EVs are clearly the future. I think it will happen faster than what governments are mandating. People in the US are oblivious to what’s happening in other countries. The US is last in the world when it comes to EV adoption among advanced nations. Ford and GM will go bankrupt if they can’t make and sell EVs overseas. The US market is too small to support their current debt load.
I think we can get to almost 100% renewable electricity using batteries. Solar will be the biggest part. But, it will take decades. We need to let existing power plants go away from natural attrition. Don’t build any new coal or gas plants, but leave the existing ones alone. I’m torn on nuclear. It’s better than coal or gas, but I think solar and wind are better in the long run. They require no fuel and can be setup anywhere the wind blows or the sun shines.
I think farmers should be left alone. The idea that we need to get rid of animals is absurd. And I think we need some greenhouse gas production. Otherwise, we’ll go into an ice age.
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Siliconguy
Siliconguy
3 years ago
Reply to  KidHorn
You have to charge the batteries from something. I’ve been keeping track of the wind and solar power availability from the BPAs own data. In April there were two dunkelflautes (both wind and solar power producing less than 10% of their nameplate capacity) with a brief period between them. Counting the brief partial recharge period it would have taken 70,000 of Tesla’s big batteries, the 3 MW-hr ones, to get through that 36 hour period.
The numbers in winter are far worse given that it’s colder, the daylight only lasts 8 hours, and the inversions not only bring heavy overcast, but also dead calm. We are lucky here, we have hydropower to rely on, but what about the places that don’t?
The green line is wind power. Solar is too small to show up on this graph. It looks like the nuclear plant is shut down for refueling.
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KidHorn
KidHorn
3 years ago
Reply to  Siliconguy
Solar panels are getting more efficient every year and the prices keep dropping. Same with batteries. And new batteries don’t need rare earths. it would require a lot of solar panels. Many would be put on homes that have their own batteries which would greatly reduce the load on the grid. And we would likely need an efficient way to transport the energy from places with too much generation to places with not enough. I think there would be a general migration from expensive energy locations to cheap energy locations. Places where renewables aren’t as effective would shrink in size. The places where it works really well would grow.
It won’t be easy and I don’t know enough to answer every detail, but the problems are far from insurmountable.
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Maximus_Minimus
Maximus_Minimus
3 years ago
Reply to  KidHorn
One question you might answer is, which rare earths do batteries use today?
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Captain Ahab
Captain Ahab
3 years ago
Reply to  Siliconguy
Go to windy.com. Look at the wind over land and compare it to the wind over water. Massive wind generators do not work as effectively as you think. Smaller units can produce, but maintenance is an issue (I have one on the water, btw). Solar consumes vast amounts of land area. The only way this stuff works is to change lifestyle and behavior.
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Captain Ahab
Captain Ahab
3 years ago
Two ways to reduce global climate change
1) For every tree you cut down, you must plant two (and maintain them)
2) Pay as you weigh. Fact: fat people contribute more to CO2.
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PapaDave
PapaDave
3 years ago
The world has been going through this energy transition for some time now and it has many decades left to go. This message from Macron is a recognition that the transition has not been smooth, and probably will never be smooth; lots of bumps along the transition road. What is clear though, is that the long term goal is to increase the use of renewables, while reducing the use of fossil fuels to as close to zero as possible. At the current rate, this might be accomplished sometime this century. In the meantime, this is just another example of how difficult it is to expand renewables enough to meet the ever growing worldwide demand for more energy. Currently, we aren’t even building out enough renewables to even meet the worlds growing energy demands. Which means that the demand for fossil fuels is still growing, rather than declining.
Meanwhile, the oil and gas industry has been reducing capex for the last decade in the expectation that the reserves they already have (some companies have many decades of reserves still to tap) may not be needed in the future. In addition, they have been reducing or eliminating their debt, because of the unwillingness of lenders and investors to continue to fund them (for the same reasons).
Which is why we are entering a period of tightness in supplies while demand continues to grow. Which will raise prices for oil and gas and increase cash flows for these companies.
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Captain Ahab
Captain Ahab
3 years ago
Reply to  PapaDave
Crude oil is $72.66 this morning, and the recession hasn’t started (officially).
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TheCaptain
TheCaptain
3 years ago
All he is doing is saying that their ability to print money to pay for it has run up against CPIflation. Period.
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tractionengine
tractionengine
3 years ago
Reply to  TheCaptain
Alas, this not an inflation issue and for a change, Macron has it mainly right: businesses cannot plan effectively when the rules and goals keep changing and thus cut back on investment until a clearer picture is seen.
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Mjs357
Mjs357
3 years ago
Reply to  tractionengine

? Macron: Graduate of
the WEF Young Global Leader program. Fabian Socialist, not a friend to capitalism, western values or
alliances, the People. Prefers Serfdom, authoritarianism,
power, control. Did you miss the Paris
riots? His (likely staff) approach to Fictional
Green Utopianism shifted out of mere fear for losing power and control. Macron has a serious social econ issue. The
ECB has no other tool for controlling inflation much like the FED. Raise rates, reduce demand, hope for
unemployment save the economy from a generation of free-money, skyrocketing debt. That’s not going to work well for an economy
heavily reliant on tourism, services. The
cost of doing business globally has skyrocketed and the EU in its infinite,
elementary wisdom has reduced it’s capacity to produce anything more than wines
and bubbly champagnes. That does not pay
the bills. So ..alas, it is
inflation but also social-econ.. It’s certainly not a childish belief Macron
himself is suddenly “smart”, benevolent, or business-like. He wants to survive.

The Left of the Left runs the show, the Green Fabians are
marching with or without him, darn the serfs, the subjects, the slaves. He’s easily replaced by another Yioung Global
Leader…..

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