Cars So Great They Can’t Make Us Buy Them

Australia’s lamentable ‘Climate Change and Energy Minister’ Chris Bowen apparently strives every day to prove how deserved his nickname really is. There’s nothing this ‘educated fuckwit’ (to use Kerry Packer’s pithy phrase) doesn’t seem determined to prove that he is utterly clueless about.

After all, in the face of all evidence from everywhere else, Bowen insists that turning the electricity grid over to large-scale wind and solar will make electricity prices cheaper, and supplies more reliable, than ever. In case you were labouring under the delusion that Bowen has somehow found the magic solution that the rest of the world hasn’t, I’m here to disabuse you. Like absolutely everywhere else it’s been tried, the more Australia adopts wind and solar, the higher into the stratosphere our energy prices have soared. Grid reliability? Blackouts are fast becoming almost as commonplace as Britain’s notorious ‘Winter of Discontent’.

Another ‘Boofhead Brainfart’ – the delusion that Australians are so champing at the bit to buy EVs that they’ll make up 60 per cent of new car sales by 2030 – has bitten the cold, hard dust of reality.

The local boss of a Japanese ­motoring giant has declared Australian car yards are brimming with electric vehicles that people do not want to buy, and warned that the price of petrol cars could rise unless Labor overhauls its ­vehicle-emissions standards.

Thousands of EVs nobody wants and dealers can’t sell, but the petrol cars everyone does want are going up in price, solely because of government meddling in the market?

Tell me this isn’t a Labor operation.

The sector is anticipating the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard, which came into effect in January, would lead to car suppliers paying $2.7bn in fines by the end of the decade for missing carbon-­emission requirements.

This, from the same government that is miserably failing to meet its own carbon-emission targets? Can we fine Boofhead billions of dollars, too, or deduct it from his fat parliamentary pension, when he undoubtedly gets given the boot in a few weeks time?

The corporate virtue-signallers are, at least, starting to dimly cotton on that they jumped on a very rickety bandwagon.

[Mitsubishi Motors Australia chief executive Shaun Westcott]’s warning came as an executive of Toyota Australia – whose chief executive ­Matthew Callachor stood with Energy Minister Chris Bowen to endorse the scheme when it was introduced into parliament last year – has conceded the targets within the policy are “very ­challenging”.

Mr Westcott also urged the government to “recalibrate” its broader energy policy to ensure more reliability in the electricity grid, arguing that people’s confidence in buying electric vehicles was impacted when NSW residents were urged last year to turn off their appliances to avoid a wide-scale blackout.

“We need some rationality around the grid,” Mr Westcott said.

In case you’re thinking that this supposedly hard-headed captain of industry has finally realised that the entire ‘Net Zero’ delusion is a ruinously costly scam, he’s still bowing to the Climate Cult.

“If you are truly serious about reducing emissions, there’s a gap between ambition and what is currently practically out there at the moment and there needs to be some reconciliation and consideration given to that gap.”

No, the whole thing needs to be junked in its entirety before it does any more damage.

In the past two months, the food industry has called for the Albanese government to drop its 82 per cent renewables target to focus on bringing electricity ­prices down, while the Australian Chamber of Commerce and ­Industry has argued there needs to be a stronger focus on using more gas to create electricity.

The plain fact is that, apart from a few climate-cult Boomers and inner-city Greens-voting numpties, Australians just don’t want EVs.

Seizing on figures from the that showed electric car sales had fallen since the ­vehicle-emissions standards were introduced, Mr Westcott said: “There is nothing we can do to force them to buy those vehicles.”

The [Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI)] this month released figures showing electric vehicles accounted for 5.9 per cent of total car sales in February, down from 9.6 per cent in the same month last year […]

Mr Westcott said that, ­although there was previously an undersupply of electric vehicles in Australia, the problem had shifted to a lack of demand for them compared with the steep trajectory of the NVES, which has stricter requirements every year to 2030 […]

“It is stated very simplistically that you can avoid the fines by bringing electric vehicles to Australia,” he said.

Yes: cars so great that we have to be forced to buy them under threat of hefty fines.

The Climate Cult is truly out of their tiny minds.