• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    Peak oil for electricity generation was last year. Peak oil for transportation is soon, and the Iran war has hastened the timetable since ending dependency on oil is now strategically imperative for every country in the world.

    You keep banging on about the fact that some gas is still used, trying to cling to some “hypocrisy” narrative. The fact is Alberta is trying to cling on to a dying industry and there is no hypocrisy to say that they need to transition from a dying industry. People still own horse and buggies today, that’s not evidence that it’s not obsolete technology.

    We are in a national housing crisis, and we aren’t building homes/neighbourhoods/cities ready for the fossil fuel free future.

    What are you talking about? We’re spending billions on transit. We’re building high speed rail. We’re expanding electricity generation. There are tax incentives for converting to a heat pump. See here: https://natural-resources.canada.ca/energy-efficiency/home-energy-efficiency/canada-greener-homes-initiative/canada-greener-homes-initiative

    Everyone in my family has converted to heat pumps. Considering the rebates the government provides, it doesn’t take too long to pay off an investment in a heat pump.

    Though maybe Ontario sucks at this because of Doug Ford sucks.