The Golden Age of Bullsh!t | Auto Expert John Cadogan

[@locodriver601]

Here in the UK the Wind farms are kept cosy in the winter by Diesel Generators. You know it makes sense .

[@RonanBrowneMusic]

The very same here in Ireland. One massive generator, plus equally mammoth diesel tank, per turbine. Correct me if I’m wrong but I think they need to turn or they don’t get our money, hence big green gensets abound.

[@RonanBrowneMusic]

@@altern8tive yep, ‘tis all about the optics. Wouldn’t it be so much better if the greenwash industry actually did something to mitigate the very real problem of pollution, and anthropogenic environmental change.

[@chrissmith2114]

Solar panels need diesel backup as well in UK winter.. simply because the days are so short and the sky so cloudy.. who would have thought that solar was least available when you need it most at the coldest and darkest time of the year.

[@RonanBrowneMusic]

​@@chrissmith2114 To quote my fav antipodean, "these are the facts; you don't have to like them". That said, one thing that would be vastly superior to these industrial-scale turbine and solar power plants is local, micro generation of power, where small, sensible amounts of power is generated domestically, on the same site as the end-user. This would even out the grid a bit, and negate the need for massive transmission infrastructure. Sad bottom line - we need to cut back on the partying.

[@pippip8744]

I'm guessing there are no Tarquins, Octavia's and retired local authority workers in hi-vis jackets preventing deliveries of diesel at these bird chopping sites.

[@peteredmonds9378]

I feel absolutely privileged John, that I am living out my twilight years………in the golden age of bullshit. Hip, hip hooray.

[@sabrekat7904]

Heard it said that the Dragon 2 moon mission was put on hold because of range anxiety,lack of working chargers en route and that they could not find a recharger cable long enough.

[@nickbloomfield4236]

Also diesel backup engine doesn't work in space

[@nickmaguire4914]

😂

[@greebj]

The rocket was only wired with single phase.

[@godfreyberry1599]

You have me rolling in the aisles every time I tune in. Your descriptive irony is on another planet. Now even irony is more like fact & fact really doesn't seem to matter anymore.

[@mattigower1479]

If only it wasnt costing all so much, it would actually be hilarious, but, check out your next power bill, then try having a laugh.

[@willynebula6193]

And to top it all off for my fellow Australians, we still currently get around 70% of our electricity from coal. Oh and new homes cant have gas connected WTF👌

[@robames1293]

This has to rank right up there with your best fact check videos so far. We run on bullshit, the powerhouse of Australia, I'll just go outside and hug a tree.

[@markiangooley]

Just be careful in certain parts of Australia: some of the trees can poison you by contact!

[@robames1293]

I hug gently, I don't want to be hit by a drop bear.@@markiangooley

[@oldbloke204]

@@markiangooley Or a Koala bear with Chlamydia might piss on you...................

[@luckyguy600]

give it a kiss for me while you are at it.

[@gamerdrive5565]

20 mins ago I went for a piss out at my usual tree, it’s dark out, I felt strangely uneasy, so I got my phone out and saw a 2m long python, then I looked up and saw a snake hanging out of the tree right in front of my face.

[@SureJungle23247]

I've got a 1996 Hilux with an 'on-board' diesel generator ( it's engine ).

[@sayavita1662]

John, you should host a 24h cable news network geopolitical show ! It would be a blast!

[@EliteRock]

I was actually taken aback by those numbers on Australian coal and gas exports, but perhaps shouldn't have been. During my periodic visits over the years I began noticing such oddities as the amount of clothing sold that's labelled "made from Australian wool", i.e. made in China, Vietnam, Indonesia, where ever, because Australia doesn't seem to have the collective nous to directly utilise its own resources. I wonder how many Australians are aware of exactly how dependent their exceptional standard of living is on mind-boggling exports of raw materials?

[@suebruce493]

I’ve been told that the supplies of wool and cotton are monopolized by organized crime syndicates all over the world. The supplies of textiles go to whichever country has the worst management, most impoverished people and least infrastructure for dealing with toxic waste from fabric dying. The crime syndicates are also responsible for the millions of slave laborers who live in these filthy toxic city slums with no clean water, etc. This is called capitalism these days.

[@tomparker5000]

Australia's great economic advantage is gained by exporting rocks, seeds, animal hair etc. We used to manufacture things, but now we are just kings of the stone-age.

[@kaya051285]

It's not the export of raw materials that makes Australia rich. Its their free market and low corruption and dependable courts which enabkes the ability to profitably mine and sell raw materials despite paying very hugh wages vs global standards Plus of course the simple reality that sustaining and growing a mining industry is much easier in a country that has and understand the industry rather than a country which doesn't have any mining cheerleaders Australia will be just fine

[@robroysyd]

There's still a lot of things made in Australia but clothing is is very labour intensive which made it impossible for the local industry to compete. Also there's a competitive advantage to a greenfield facility, they'll get the latest tech. This is largely what killed the USA's auto industry. On top of that the countries that have the cheap labour also don't have the same level of environmental regulations. I cannot speak for all Australians but I'm very aware of much we depend on those exports but not only does that give us plenty of foreign exchange it does employ a lot of people.

[@thurstonhowellthetwelf3220]

No.. they think it's because we are smart and deserve it..

[@adimazga]

We must protect this man at all cost!

[@basshead.]

Scotty Kilmer too.

[@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13]

Well, at some costs... we gotta put a limit on the protection budget, we can't write a blank cheque. I mean, John's not Ukraine.

[@ytlurker220]

@@basshead. absolutely not

[@alihenderson5910]

He's perfectly safe, he still worships at the twin alters of COVID and climate change. His denunciation of Electric Jesus and his obvious TDS also helps.

[@nicholashaines4136]

Why? Uninformed ev haters are literally a dime a dozen

[@SayWhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat]

I love Australians soo much!!! You are the only people who speak english and also being super cool! I guess living in a country where everything wants to kill you (nature) makes people more cooler and overall better person :) I noticed that when i do like some people i see on youtube, or tv... they almost always end up being from Australia :D John is male's perfect example what should male be when he gets a bit older and wiser :) Greetings from Lthuania John.

[@mysty0]

John is a unique character lol.. most Australians lack Johns character and are whiney arse

[@YABBAHEY1]

plenty'a wankers in stralia, same as anywhere else

[@oweneather1435]

John, it is a pleasant relief to watch and hear your cheery demolition of peak bullshit. There is one purveyor that, I would offer, requires your forensic disection - the " Electric Viking", (actually a strikingly weird mega user of hair gel who is otherwise, probably, a failed franchisee of " Jim's Mowing"). This goggle eyed electric everything prophet seems, to me, to embody the froth mouthed, spittle projecting desert rasuls of antiquity, except he burns incense to the billionaire pusher of luxury golf carts with a brand name beginning with "T" I wonder if you might examine this proselytiser of volts and comment in your inimitable style. Much obliged if you do.

[@markiangooley]

I have never doubted that the BS supply is secure, indefinitely. I just never expected the supply to be so vast!

[@oldbloke204]

Interesting story about the EV battery going pop at Sydney airport.

[@stuarthaynes1737]

The first of many EV fires to take place in car parks near all of us lol I'd say it wont take JC long to get onto this one hahaha

[@ev0wat]

China car aswell 😅

[@ev0wat]

It went poopy in its trousers

[@oldbloke204]

@@stuarthaynes1737 Interesting that the story said that the battery had been "disconnected" I thought. I know a lot of EV owners are disconnected from reality but unplugging the battery from the car? Surely it can't be as easy as unplugging your Toaster so I wonder what the go was with it? Curious.

[@saddysly8281]

Can't wait for john's take on this

[@lostjackets4006]

"In the golden age of bullshit, anything can be true'". A brilliant epithet for our time.

[@wandpj]

You only need a little generator backup for when all those solar panels and wind turbines at BS Ranch aren't producing. Oh, wait ...

[@happyjoyjoy6976]

Australia's biggest problem, POLITICIANS

[@shardlake]

Not restricted to Australia, seems to be a global phenomenon.

[@williamgould2855]

nice one

[@sithlegacy5417]

That's the worlds biggest problem. Lying self serving scumbags who walk on top of the little plebs. These husks pretending to be humans steal, lie and are traitors to the people they're supposed to serve. You see, in their eyes, we the people serve them. Until we all stand together and say enough is enough and remove these bureaucratic greedy arseholes, nothing will change. Think, there are far more of us than them, even a monkey could do a better job than they do and monkeys like to smell their fingers when they've fingered their butt's.

[@luckyguy600]

It's a Western thing.

[@neillhames3912]

NZ’s too

[@whitehorse1959]

The Aussie Net Zero push is truly a "Himalaya of Horseshit". Thanks John, love your lavish lexicon.

[@greebj]

I disagree. There's a whole new industry inventing 'capture' 'abatement' and 'credit' schemes to help reach net zero. The only challenge to get there is figuring out how to stack the bullshit high enough. The lower levels of bullshit need to be solid, dense, load bearing bullshit that multiple stories can be built on top of in the future.

[@DRpokeme]

One of best most insightful videos ever. Thanks John, the information layed out, is Gold. Thank you.

[@Ozsmallbore]

Great content John. Can you imagine how much more of a basket case Australia would be if over $1000 Billion of exports were stripped away. We are not alone in needing fossil fuels to survive economically, which is why this net zero BS will never happen.

[@seegee7728]

One of your best videos John, explained the reality of the world we live in, with headless chickens in Canberra BS us into something being done about emissions while brown paper bags behind their backs being filled.

[@markclark7273]

You have a refreshing approach to life today which I share fully. In the UK they are pushing heat pumps for water and house heating, they cost 2 to 3 times that of a gas boiler to install as they need bigger radiators and you have to live with cooler domestic hot water. The best bit is that as they release cold outside to create warmth inside, they don't work well below 10 deg C ambient temperature and actually cease to function at less than -15 deg C, this means they work best when the weather is good and not at all when its really cold. They have a back up electric element to "boost" heat when needed, as in take over completely when its really cold, a bit Elon I thought. None of this is mentioned in the sales pitch but they promise savings of up to around £350 a year, off your normal bill of £2500 - £3500. Wow, that over 10% at its best, I had better rush out and but one now so it can pay itself off with the savings in the next 20 years, asuming I never have it serviced and nothing ever goes wrong with it. Keep up the bullshit busting, many of us enjoy it.

[@kaya051285]

A well designed and installed heat pump will get you a COP of 4x which means if you home is already eletricity heated (as hundreds of millions globally are. And approximately 2.5 million in the UK are) you will get a 75% reduction in your heating bill So going from £2,000 a year to £500 a year If you are on mains gas then yes it's chepaer just to keep using that simply because gas is a lot chepaer than eletricity But as already noted a lot of homes globally are not connected to an affordable gas grid so those people will benefit greatly by upgrading to a heat pump And don't say they don't work as most of Norway Sweden Finland (all colder than the UK) have or are installing heat pumps because they don't have domestic gas pipelines so it's either direct eletricity or a heat pump and in that case the latter easily wins

[@richardohanlon4479]

@@kaya051285 This is only true if you are comparing electric powered heating. Otherwise the situation is much more complicated. For a start it depends on the relative cost of gas and electricity. The GG emmissions are strongly dependant on the carbon intensity of the grid. In Victoria for example, gas space heating produces less CO2 than an electric heatpump system.

[@kaya051285]

@richardohanlon4479 I have no idea about Victoria specifically, but I would suggest most of the worlds grids are going to rapidly go low carbon For example the UK grid went from 475 grams per KWh in 2013 to 158 grams for 2023. That is a near 70% carbon intensity reduction in just 10 years But the main point I was making is that those who live in areas with cheap gas and an existing gas grid its hard to justify a heat pump vs just keeping what you have. But literially hundreds of million of homes aren't on the gas grid so for them it's a simple choice a heat pump reduces their electricity heating needs by 4x I suspect at some point even areas with a gas grid and cheap gas will no longer have cheap gas. So for example gas prices in the UK went from 2 pennies per KWh in 2020 to over 20 pennies per KWh in 2022 Of those gas prices hasn't come down the cheap has boilers would have been a huge burden on British consumers and we would have seen a rapid (5-10 yesrs) of mass insulation efforts to try and save our asses from poverty

[@ian-nz-2000]

Heatpumps are prety standard here in New Zealand where not may of us have mains gas. They are even a requirement for rental properties! I used to miss my gas boiler when I came here, but there is one thing a heatpump can do that central heating can't - keep you cool in the summer!

[@markclark7273]

Responding to those that commented on my comment, in the UK gas is really expensive at the moment, so is electricity as a lot of it is generated in gas fired power stations. As most of us have piped gas, we don't use electricity for heating as a rule, unless forced to when living off grid, there is also LPG which is stored in an outside tank but that is more costly again. I am not arguing that heat pumps don't work but they need major changes to work at all and are at their worst when needed the most. Here the average house needs the radiators replaced with new ones 50% bigger, or extras added to make up the difference. They are slow to heat the house as the heat they produce is less than gas or electricity and max temperatures are lower. As they are basically a back to front fridge, they create heat by warming their cold parts outside which is then turned into heat when the gas is pumped inside. The colder it is outside, the less the cold parts warm and the less heat is produced inside, this is physics and can't be got round. We are offered 2 types, an air system that has a massive white box with a 3ft fan that sounds like a jet plane in the distance, or an underground system that has pipes under the garden. The last is the better type as the ground can disipate the cold more easily but only at the detriment to any gardening going on above the pipes, the plants will wonder when summer is coming and why the ground is not warming up in the spring. The air system is priced at around £10k and the underground £15k + depending on how much digging up is required. There are grants of up to £5k, but that's on the expensive one, you get less for the air system. So after all this upheavel and expense including remaking the garden and tidying up any damage in the house, you save up to £385 per year, I checked the figure in the adverrts, I was a bit low before. On top of this, quite a few have failed to get much saving at all and the actual heat pumps have also proved troublesome, leading to many asking for a refund and reinstatement of their old system. As the back up electric heaters are in use completely or partly for at least 6 months of the year, this is not a surprise and could only be improved if we had Elon Musk's non existant diesel generator down the road to tap into, if it doesn't exist he can't charge us for using it, but we don't. Our gas is expensive and if cutting out 90% of our gas consumption can only reduce our power bills by around 10% to 15%, either the system is flawed or our electricity is equally expensive and is just replacing the gas we are now not using. Either way I won't be spendng money on a system that gives me a meagre saving, cooler hot water and loads of upheaval, in the UK we look forward to some heat in the summer and the need to keep cool is usually about 7 days in 365.

[@morri03]

Ludricous is a great read and provides a great record of the litany of lies that space Karen has spouted over the years

[@simonhusseyofficial]

Thanks John…fascinating and entertaining as always! 👏👏👏

[@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc]

1983 reprise: “How Green is My Cactus”!

[@franklutton7149]

as a person that does glass work on vehicles, i have replaced quite a few tEsla ev vehicle windscreen,roof,tailgate....pretty much all glasses. Last week was the first i saw a battery system removed..... it was packed with bunnings grade piping for cooling....... so i can honestly say...... fukk no.... if thats your cooling..... a backyard pvc spray system.... then no..... fukk no..... 32 years as a panel beater then autoglazier..... EV vehicles are a death trap.... should not be allowed in high rise complexes..... shopping centres..... anywhere 2 or more than 3 are together.......

[@MrBigbangbuzz]

Abandoned EVs in China is another good story to look at… thousands of them

[@crumbschief5628]

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[@DHW256]

Yes, get rid of all the government pushes for EVs and let's see what happens to EV production.

[@m2useinu]

How much diesel do you have to burn to charge a Tesla? How far could you have gone if you just put the diesel directly in a car?

[@timhicks2154]

Moving the pollution upstream is the game for Tosla owners

[@davepax982]

Awesome report John. Loved every second of it!

[@samboelliott1]

Thanks for this great content John

[@AutoExpertJC]

My pleasure Sambo. All the best mate. Thanks for watching.

[@romandybala]

I tried to tell the joke about Sambo and the wheelie bin collector to a 24 year old. He didnt know who Sambo was so that joke got tanked.@@AutoExpertJC

[@karachaffee3343]

There was also a charging station on the I-5 route that was advertised as 150 kW and in reality was 38 kW . Your 40 minute recharge turned into 4 hours.

[@Mart_7512]

Let's hope California High-Speed Rail with its infinite-range, wire-powered bullet trains beat the heck out of those EVs with fires burning three times hotter and need hours to be taken out when compared to a combustion automobile fire, which takes just minutes to be put out. Besides, government-owned, wire-powered passenger & freight rail should be everywhere including rural areas. Trains have higher operating speed than automobiles, and this is already done in entirety of Europe despite it having more land area but less nominal GDP than USA. Europe even invested in mixed-use development, which is cheaper, more convenient, more comfortable, less noisy, more vibrant, and overall better than North American stroad design. Besides, there's a lot of North American rural rail left abandoned. The problem isn't rural areas, it's those farm-destroying, expensive, sprawling urban "middle-class" McMansions. Also, it costs 25 million USD to build a kilometer of high-speed rail. Europe already built 3622 km of that. That's 91 billion USD, which is less than Canada's GDP and even Australia's GDP. Don't worry auto enthusiasts, delivery drivers and truckers, because there will be less traffic so more room to enjoy driving. Also, please strictly enforce keeping right except to pass on motorways. Also, make sure all highways are divided & rural in order to prevent passing while giving a shade to drivers, and all regular ones have no more than one-lane per route direction, for motorways make sure they have one to three lanes per route direction. Please don't even use stop signs & the 85th Percentile Speed Rule, just do good road design. If a road is straight, wide, forgiving, and has gentle turns, it's a high-speed road. If it's complex, narrow, and twisty, it's a low-speed road which is safe for pedestrians. For intersections, do one-lane pedestrian roundabouts with yield signs for pedestrians, cyclists, and other vehicles. All of that's already done in Netherlands and Germany, two countries in the group of Best Countries for Drivers. In fact, one-lane roundabouts with yield signs for pedestrians, cyclists, and other vehicles are safer than four-way intersections with traffic lights or stop signs. I instinctively know assholes HATE stop signs and traffic lights, but yield signs make assholes worry about the safety of themselves and others. In fact, stop signs in North America are being VANDALIZED, but yield signs anywhere aren't.

[@crumbschief5628]

38 x 4 = 152Kwh, congratulations you are half way from the biggest battery car you can buy to a semi lorry.

[@Ziegfried82]

@@Mart_7512 while CA makes a lot of bonehead decisions, the high speed rail project is something I can support. The US government should be doing massive infrastructure projects building rail all over the USA but no, instead the money goes to foreign wars (latest being Ukraine). On the talk of yield signs the only reason those aren't vandalized is because the average American does not know what that word means.

[@Mart_7512]

@@Ziegfried82 I wonder why Europe has less traffic sign vandalism than North America, I wonder why? Oh, laws in European countries are too good for criminals. That's why mixed-use development is safer than urban sprawl in everything including crime, it's because more people watch out for each other in mixed-use development when compared to urban sprawl.

[@darrenharvey6084]

You can not build electric cars without coal .

[@brendonrobbins6759]

Tesla have begun delivering the angular monstrosities recently in the US - pics have been popping up on social media

[@nevarran]

Imagine saying with a straight face that your pickup truck will be a better sports car than a 911.

[@otto_schwarzkopf]

My 911 is bad on storage, often I seek a not so sluggish pickup truck that does not yet exist.

[@nevarran]

@@otto_schwarzkopf Ford F-150 Raptor, 3.5L, 450HP, 0-100 in 5.3 seconds. Ram 1500 TRX, 6.2L, 702HP, 0-100 in 4.5 seconds. Ford F-150 Raptor R, 5.2L, 700HP, 0-100 in 4.4 seconds. Yeah, your comment has that distinguishing smell of bullshit. And all that aside, I wrote "SPORTS car". I cannot care less how fast you want to transport cow manure around town with your truck.

[@dragonsixtyseven1066]

Funny as hell. The USA is the BS capital of the world. However, Elon is known for delivering the impossible - late. His words. He also recognizes that fossil fuels are necessary for some time. Yes Cybertruck is amazing and will likely rival a sports car dude.

[@williamgeorgefraser]

Everything announced by Elon MusX is due to happen next year or the year after. He promised to transport a million settlers to Mars by 2030. The first ones will be leaving "next year or the year after". Self-driving taxis "with nobody in them" (at least he got that bit right) were supposed to arrive in 2017 or 2018 or 2019 but will now be delivered next year or the year after, still with nobody in them. Hyperloop was due to start running so many years ago that nobody remembers what "next year or the year after" actually were. One thing one can be sure of is that MusX's next great scam will come either next year or the year after.

[@pippip8744]

Imagine if we spliced him and Richard Branson together. Perish the thought.

[@EliteRock]

Got a flash for you - the age of BS started centuries ago, it's just been getting more and more preposterous as it piles up on itself. "Everything you know is wrong".

[@JohnMcClain-p9t]

I've suffered under the US "efforts" to go electric vehicle and "end pollution" since the late sixties able to count as well as you, but never had all the figures laid out as plainly and clear as you've managed to stack them. Thanks for the clarity!

[@bogusdogus]

Great report John! Somehow we have all been convinced in a mad fever that we must change our cars over to EV’s because it’s the right thing to do. I think it’s only the right thing for EV makers…

[@AlexB-up6fd]

I would BUILD an electric vehicle to commute to work and back and just have a gasoline sedan if I wanted to go a long distance. Idk why everyone doesn’t think this way.

[@Liberty2358]

The super heavy booster cannot even get the Starship to orbital speed of 28,000 km/h, it was 4000 km/h short on speed. Once again EJ did not publish the net payload capacity of the Starship. It is possible that it was just an empty shell with no payload at all.

[@yuglesstube]

This is one of your very best JC. The only option now is to move to cold climes and do it before the rush.

[@echelonrank3927]

move to colder climates will surely reduce heating bills🤑

[@RM-au9mm]

Electric vehicle battery causes fire at Sydney Airport, destroys five cars- breaking ABC News. Superintendent Adam Dewberry from Fire and Rescue NSW said that while battery fires were not uncommon, electric vehicles were not a concern for authorities?!? DutchOven begs to differ?

[@j2simpso]

Look on the bright side: Sydney airport now has a beach precinct thanks to the 5 tons of sand required to put out those flames 😂

[@JamesKuffner-cg2pv]

I am definitely going to take an iq test after listening to your latest video. I thought I was blessed with the wittiest idioms, ( it's amazing how close the word idiom is to idiot ) . An absolutely amazing compliment of the best quips I've heard for yonks. You're done it again. Shie.

[@harryworth8527]

I worked for 30 years in the LNG industry, 27 of those years with the big W and yes I did it for the money. The corporate spin doctors can always turn something ugly into a thing of beauty. You are right there is too much money involved in both gas and coal for either to ever cease. It was obvious to many in the industry that we were ultimately exporting carbon dioxide.

[@patricksee10]

Great John. your frankness about Australia’s economic reality and energy dependence is in extreme short supply

[@Hoop-pi6dp]

Amen JC, the most depressing thing of all is using this endless BS to address one of humanities greatest challenges. I encourage you to read/ listen to Nate Hagens and his observations that he calls The Great Simplification, no answers or solutions, just deep thought about humans place in nature.

[@matthewbarry376]

I spoke to a Man who was pretty senior in the ESB (Irish electrical Supply board). In Ireland in the last 3 years multiple traditional powerplants including multiple power stations not even 20 years old. He bragged about how they have brought online 70MW of Renewable electrical energy generation capacity to the grid. I asked him how much they've taken offline in the same time period, his response: some 220MW of electrical generation capacity. Absolutely fucking insane

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

So... 70 of Renewable ON... and 220 of whatever OFF... leaves a disparity of 150MW, and I'm going to (quietly) suggest we PRESUME that this Irish Board didn't just blithely murder enough of their citizenry to make up for that consumption... I've never heard (so far anyway) of a country's best "Conservation Campaign" actually dropping the national consumption by more than about 10 to 15%, so for easy math (and for benefit of doubt based on an unknown... so lets try of the original 220, probably closer of figures established) let's just go with -33 MW... so we have to suggest at some level, they've run an extension cord (glorified over-simplification) to Britain or someplace for the other 117-ish MW's... so what's making those, or is it another "That's not Ireland's problem." situation, not so removed from Aussie's and the Billion or so metric tons of CO2 they ship abroad to be made not being an Aussie problem. This is a part of what John's getting at. EVERY country is doing similar sh*t. They have this big domestic plan that sounds good and looks great on paper, until you bother doing a little math... Now, I can GUARANTEE you that if Ireland "killed off" 220MW's of power generation, whether just outdated, or specifically remove fossil fueled plants, or whatever, that the national capacity is, was, and WILL forever be LARGER than 220 MW... It's a step, to be sure, engaging 70 MW in renewable resources. BUT it's just not as big a step "up" as it looks, because unless they DID kill out enough people to reduce the country's energy consumption by more than 220 MW to get rid of them, then they're just borrowing from Peter to pay Paul... and there's an extension cord crossing a border somewhere to (probably) plug into an old school coal-fired plant to do it... ;o)

[@AlexB-up6fd]

Electrification of vehicles isn’t to “go green”, we’re going to be so poor gasoline will be unaffordable.

[@chrishewitt4220]

Yesssssss..... another John video!

[@markcarli8259]

Thanks for saying it John.

[@mortkb]

John, please do an analysis of the trucking industry being forced to go electric. Replace a diesel 18 wheeler with a 8ton battery power POS. I know you can do it, and I know it will be awesome.

[@silentbob784392]

Made me think of the essay from Fredric Jameson 'The Future City', especially this section: "There are also, in this churning pseudo-temporality of matter ceaselessly mutating all around us, moments of rare, of breathtaking beauty: ‘railway stations unfold like iron butterflies, airports glisten like cyclopic dewdrops, bridges span often negligible banks like grotesquely enlarged versions of the harp. To each rivulet its own Calatrava’. But such moments are scarcely enough to compensate for the nightmare, or to make the hallucinations all worthwhile."

[@tjarlzquoll9835]

"or it is the end of the world that is in question here; and that could be exhilarating if apocalypse were the only way of imagining that world’s disappearance (whether we have to do here with the bang or the whimper is not the interesting question). It is the old world that deserves the bile and the satire, this new one is merely its own self-effacement, and its slippage into what Dick called kipple or gubble, what LeGuin once described as the buildings ‘melting. They were getting soggy and shaky, like jello left out in the sun. The corners had already run down the sides, leaving great creamy smears.’ Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. We can now revise that and witness the attempt to imagine capitalism by way of imagining the end of the world." ***changing lanes** "This brings us back to the automobile, the central symbol of Ballard's nightmare. Ballard's choice of the automobile as emblem and synecdoche for the apocalypse is splendid. In the U.S., "25 cents out of every dollar spent at retail is connected with the auto... The automobile annually consumes... 64.2 percent of the Nation's rubber production, 21 percent of all its steel, 54.7 percent of the lead, 40 percent of the malleable iron, 36.5 percent of the zinc.”19 As Dutch economist Andre van Dam notes: "Each year automobiles kill 180,000 people worldwide, permanently maim 480,000, and injure 8,000,000. Car accidents account for 3% of the gross national product in the industrial nations, a huge sum that should be subtracted from the GNP rather than added to it."20 And in the words of "American Ground Transport," a report submitted to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly: "We are witnessing today the collapse of a society based on the automobile."21 But Ballard's failure to understand the source of this collapse, or rather his failure to carry forward the understanding he reached in "The Subliminal Man," leaves him mistaking the end of capitalism for the end of the world. First, the Los Angelesation of capitalist society has not been primarily a product of Anglo-American mass psychology. As the report cited above thoroughly documents, it was the giant automobile companies that consciously, systematically, and ruthlessly destroyed all competing forms of mass transportation. Prior to the Depression, most large American cities had a virtually pollution-free electric railway system..."

[@GimbloBlimfby]

Also, Australia became a net oil exporter recently and Australia's shale oil resources have barely been touched.

[@davow8]

And then there's the issue of sustainability and why the push to renewables John. Pretty easy to spot the BS. Finding viable solutions is the tricky bit. Of course we get your homage to science and engineering. Thanks for more truth telling.

[@rsdene]

Fantastic vlog John! Love the attention to detail and the manner it’s delivered in. Keep up the good work 👊🏻👍🏻😂

[@LoremIpsum1970]

How much seawater do I need to pour on a Tessla before it self-ignites? Asking for a friend.😉

[@sFeral]

22:07 This man is a god damned genius of THE GOLDEN AGE! SUBBED

[@clecollins2673]

Your expose is spot on and not only welcome but needed. My attempt has been futile. I am just a lowly Marine Engineer and know little. You however have the savy beyond the norm.

[@dan2304]

It is not just the CH4, but the CO2 emitted liquifying the CH4 that counts as Aussi consumption nearly half of our consumption of CH4. But Aussie only has 1.5% of global reserve. Coal exports of over 500,000,000 tonnes.

[@SciHeartJourney]

I want to take a Tesla and build my own internal diesel generator to charge it. 🤣

[@paulfrylink7351]

Absolutely spot on John

[@markdarvodelsky6946]

I did enjoy your video John, despite being labelled a “twat”. I’ll let that one go as a concession to your comedic talent and the many valid points you make about Australia’s carbon-based exports - and the delusion that we can change the climate with the policies being pursued by our Govt. I bought a Tesla for one reason - its an excellent car. Not to be green, not to reduce emissions, not to save the planet. Just because you drive a Tesla does not mean you do not recognise bs.

[@jimgraham6722]

Thanks John, you are correct to highlight these issues. In the end it all comes down to energy. To power Australia's standard of living we need lots of it. Our daily draw for for domestic and business is currently around 30GW. To electrify the transport fleet we will likely need another 30GW and finally to power industry yet another 30GW. This is before we even start to contemplate things like replacing our coal exports with green hydrogen and the like. Alan Finkel the former Chief Scientist in his study of Australia's energy future estimated the country's on line electrical energy production would need to be in the order of 700 GW to provide sufficient exportable energy embodied products to sustain living standards . This would require around 200,000 10MW class wind turbines or their equivalent. The capital cost of these would be around $2 trillion, ie comparable to our annual GNP. On the other hand it is only equal to about ten nuclear submarine pograms so perhaps not that unachievable.

[@davegoldspink5354]

Mate one of your best videos in what are always great videos. Thanks for the share and for the great insight into our reality. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 MALS!

[@samrodian919]

John you had me pissing myself with laughter whilst watching this lol your delivery is absolutely perfect! Were you an actor in a previous life? You could earn a reading good living writing comedy sketches mate! All the while telling us the facts and giving us the unvarnished truth. Thank you!

[@GuitarsRockForever]

Thanks John. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending the point of view) humanity is doomed, we are really good at self destruction.

[@georgecurtis6463]

Ha ha ! I used to sell tools at Harris farms back in the late 80s. The big feedlot that stinks up I5 just north of the Harris ranch restaurant. Yes, it was a restaurant. It also had an airport. Why ? Because harris had a horse racing track. Even ate a few times at the old restaurant. Haven't seen the new version though. The I5 and 198 intersection is a big travel stop. Most of that is just across from the restaurant . Since it's about in the middle of nowhere, I would expect that they would have a huge charging area. I assume the same across the freeway. As to the generators, I'm sure that they have a lot of anti pollution devices on it. It is california after all. But still, your point is spot on.

[@MajorDrama1]

Cadoghan Gold! The man is on fire! Yet another grand little missive from the irrepressible JC - Fabulous cheeky intellectual critique of our predicament within this era which is surely a most Golden of Ages - All wrapped in John's glorious trademark pithy acerbic humour - Almost Carlinesque in his instincts for fusing brilliant quick fire comedy with rather salient and most timely socio-political critique. On top of all the very insightful and interesting auto content + commentary, this also has to be some of the best and funniest social commentary on YT

[@CCARL11]

Elon is the very definition of a Techno ponzi king

[@craighanks429]

Love your channel 😂 especially the calling out of the environmental BS coverups nowadays. Here in US we have ONE battery (all types, tools, EV’s) recycling plant in Arizona & actually ONE that disassembles wind generators. You should see the space it takes to store all those blades!! Takes bags of time to reduce one unit to parts……

[@George-ph6qo]

I think I was 9 when I tobogganed down bullshit mountain. I can't ski. It was how I imagine almost getting to the top if Everest tripping over a yeti and tumbling all the way down to the bottom

[@DanWallis86]

This has been fantastic John.

[@eifionhowells]

Thanks John for another excellent video. Same over here in Pommie-land. Overwhelmed by EVangelical bullshit, Net Zero, Carbon Neutral, Green Energy and all the other fashionable phrases. Keep up the good work.

[@grabannon]

All these policies that we didnt get a vote on in our democratic country. Great isnt it

[@jamescaron6465]

You are spot on. I wish you weren’t but you are.

[@soundman6645]

What we need is a means of meeting our energy demand from BULLshit.

[@bradevans7935]

I understand it's possible, but the smell would be intolerable. Also, there's a strong possibility we'd drown in the stuff first.

[@soundman6645]

politicians certainly should travel dy hot air balloon

[@MothershipVideos]

Great work John.

[@M4rky71]

Truly brilliant! Laughed out loud. Then cried. How sad we are. Despite STEM’s best efforts we’re fucked as a species. When the aliens land to see where we all went, they not be able to work it out. They’ll just say we drowned in some kind of brown effluent.

[@tigermcflash131]

Brilliant....peak sarcasm and so funny. Keep it up John!

[@markh.6687]

"This is Bullsh!t 1, Control. We're achieving light speed, and found all of Mankind's lost luggage as well, over."

[@evangriffith140]

Nailed It!

[@tighematthew]

All we need is the technology from the 60's and we all can go to the moon 🌙 😂 There flat out getting a rover to land on the moon in 2023 😂

[@williewonka6694]

Indeed, this truly is the golden age of bullshit. Brought to the world through the internet, the greatest bullshit delivery system ever conceived.

[@thetowndrunk988]

Harris Ranch used to have a huge truck parking area. They took it out to put in the Tesla superstation. Used to eat there all the time

[@romandybala]

Lying on a sloping grassy paddock looking up at that big globe of gas which warms the heart so and watching the madness swirling around in the valley below and not giving a rat's arse. All the hand wringers and bed wetters out of their minds agonising over battery everything and greenhouse gases.

[@tomuchfunwithgas846]

On the head John. You hit the BS on the head. Prefect.

[@edwinszymczyk442]

Here in Saltshitistan where winter is half the year, the streets are saltier than Bonneville. EV's and salt, what could possibly go wrong?

[@chrisfallis5851]

Half of the northern US and I assume most of Oh, Canada regularly marinates their roads in salt each winter. This shows up in rusted out vehicles and bridges. I can’t wait to see what road salt and EV batteries looks like.

[@teepatchong5668]

I find it BS when these Australian Gas exporters pay no tax on billions of dollars in revenue.

[@tadstertrolley7770]

I actually like people owning ev's in my suburb, much quieter and less pollution. I certainly wouldn't buy one myself or talk to the owners though.

[@stuwhite2337]

Brilliant 😂. I'll keep driving my dirty 42 year old MG.

[@brianharradine8130]

I’m waiting for your book what read it will be, love your work

[@dennislaur2515]

I think we could solve the climate issue by just going back to the bronze age. That way we can all die by the thousands on battle fields for little territory gains and losses. And the population numbers will go down fixing the affordable housing issue at the same time.

[@grantlouw3182]

The worst part is our various governments haven’t bothered to set up a future fund from part of the proceeds like Norway did with their oil money. Future Australians will thank our generation BS for that no doubt.

[@Inisfad]

Perhaps one lesson here is to stay away from anything named ‘titan’???

[@jamesaustralian9829]

Remember when we used to burn our coal in power stations, when electric bills were dirt cheap and we had shitloads of manufacturing

[@robertgisborn5152]

Right on John!!!!

[@christophermarshall5765]

Headlines of the future: Police EV runs out of battery, while chasing Ford GT-HO along the Hume Highway!!

[@simoncrooke1644]

Further headline: police use road spikes to stop speeding vehicle.

[@christophermarshall5765]

@@simoncrooke1644 Ford GT HO fitted with road scoop to push road spikes away

[@warrenberring8085]

While we're on the subject, Elon, where's my CyberTruck?

[@HypocriticYT]

Insider trading, politicians investing before making policy for green energy and get rich in the process while we pay exorbitant amounts😮

[@donaldkempf7035]

ADD to this Gladstone Gas works. They are replacing their Gas driven pumps with ELECTRIC driven pumps. in an effort to reduce the Gas plants emission output.....

[@notathome13]

When private, corporate and govt dump aircraft used for luxury travel and fly commercial (or just use zoom to meet) then well you know the climate emergency is taken for real . Until then it rules for me and rest can suffer.

[@brandonobaza8610]

BEVs aren't "zero emission vehicles," they're "redistributed emission vehicles". They only make sense if you're trying to remove pollution at the user end of a vehicle-dense locale, like LA county, or forklifts in a warehouse with inadequate ventilation.