A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market
New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader
Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here
And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol
A very normal dinner party with Keith Richards and Patti Hansen
A very Grace detail is that the “I was on the prow of a ship powering through gleaming snakes” imagery comes from an acid trip she had while working as a hippie go-go dancer in Philly …
She was absolutely taking no shit from notorious sleazeball modeling agent and Trump/Epstein crony Johnny Casablancas:
Grace Jones was not a fan of 1970s French public toilets
Cartoon panel of Captain America as US President
Curious whether in a Hungarian context, having a candidate called Peter Magyar is like having a US Presidential candidate called Captain America
I’m curious exactly *how* the US Navy would blockade Iranian ports.
Interdicting ships in the Arabian Sea which had docked at Iranian ports, sure.
But would they risk getting up close to the Iranian shoreline in a hot war?
I feel we just got the answer to that question.
Happy to be educated!
Meanwhile over in the Bad Place, we’re still waiting for signs that an election has even been held
Don’tnube?
Just to crib Jan's great chart here a little bit - here are just a few of the headlines that came out when growth somewhat slowed in 2024
Many, many media outlets do not really know how to handle technological change like this
Well, yes, agree. The core of it is always “fly less”!
IMO afforestation credits are credible and their (high) price reflects this. REDD+/avoided deforestation credits are more a caveat emptor situation, and their (low) price reflects this too.
Yes, but they are appropriately expensive and not the sort of thing that you often get sold. IMO if you are paying $50/ton for carbon credits they will probably be credible, at $5/ton they will usually be trash.
As an airline passenger, you need to understand that SAF is smoke and mirrors. If you are feeling bad about flying, buy credible offsets. You will be shocked at how expensive they are, but that is what mitigating these emissions really costs.
That’s why the pipe dream of SAF is so attractive. It allows the industry to promise it will do something big on climate, just not quite yet. And avoid making real difficult, costly decisions in the here and now.
3. Switching away from low-quality carbon credits. The ones backed by ICAO and IATA typically cost only $10/ton or less, which makes it unlikely they will be high-quality.
You start to get worthwhile offsets at about $50/ton, but that deter flying, so the industry is against it.
2. Serious support for prototype electric and hybrid aviation for regional jets. If this technology could scale up to the 150-seat market it would revolutionise the industry, and we need to be doing the work now:
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
What would a serious aviation climate plan look like?
1. Industry-wide support for the scientific and navigation work needed to tackle contrails, which cause at least half of aviation’s greenhouse footprint:
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Sustainable Aviation Fuels are a complete fantasy.
They stop people reckoning with the fact that we have no proper plan for aviation emissions.
You are 100% better off buying credible carbon offsets than counting on SAF to reduce your aviation footprint.
More amazing if you know the history of this. Uzbekistan is a historically very important gas producer and was the linchpin of the USSR’s gas network until the Siberian gasfields opened in the late 1970s.
March is a good month for renewables but Uzbekistan’s under-construction wind and solar will probably get it to a 40% year-round share within the next few years, from only 10%, all hydro, four years ago.
And Uzbekistan is not some backwater. Has almost the same population as Canada.
The scale of the energy transition going on in places that most people barely think about is extraordinary.
Renewables hit a 43% share of generation in Uzbekistan in March — and a huge amount is still under construction.
www.uzdaily.uz/en/uzbekista...
Trump never learns.
"His cognitive boundaries are circumscribed by wealth, celebrity, self-aggrandizement and self-preservation – and little else."
The whole world will keep paying the price. - @timobrien.bsky.social
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Hey, I realize you're all busy with other stuff right now but I wanted to just take a minute to make it very clear that I am not and have never been close friends with the Boston Strangler
As insurance becomes less affordable, states lose tax revenue, & capital is sacrificed to the disaster-industrial complex, something’s got to give. The industry that eagerly led us to this pass is a fair target
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Will Asia return to coal, or will a new renewables future emerge from the Iran crisis? David Fickling and Akshat Rathi discuss.
Trump: “I have TEN HORNS and SEVEN HEADS, with ten crowns on my horns, and on each head a blasphemous name, and tomorrow I will OPEN THE GATES OF HELL ITSELF. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT”
His supporters: “Trans teenagers are the prophesied Antichrist.”
And I, for one, welcome our new Nutella overlords
