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Blowout Week 194<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\"\"Britain, France, Norway and India have already announced their intention to ban fossil-fuel-powered vehicles in favor of EVs and a number of other countries are considering it, and in this week\u2019s Blowout we feature China, which is about to join the club. To follow we have the usual mix of energy-related stories from around the world, including Iraq facing civil war; Kurdistan\u2019s referendum; things looking up in the N. Sea; PWRs in UK; Australia\u2019s energy woes; nuclear in Japan, Poland, South Africa and Saudi Arabia; India\u2019s power plants running out of coal; California\u2019s clean energy proposals in trouble; the UK capacity auction; Trump to blame for Harvey and Irma; why lithium won\u2019t win and how climate change could kill us all by 2100.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg: China to end sales of fossil fuel vehicles<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

China, one-third of the world\u2019s car market, is working on a timetable to end sales of fossil-fuel-based vehicles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The announcement is important because the most influential players in the global auto market have always been not companies, but governments. Diesel cars make up about half of the market in the European Union and less than a percentage point in the U.S., largely because of different fuel-taxation and emissions regimes. Carburetors have been regulated out of most developed markets because fuel injection \u2014 originally a more costly technology \u2014 results in less tailpipe pollution. China\u2019s auto industry plan released in April envisages new energy vehicles \u2014 including electric and hybrids \u2014 making up all the future sales growth in the country. With conventional cars plateauing at current levels, new-energy vehicle sales will reach 7 million annually in 2025. As many as 800,000 charging stations will be built this year alone, according to the official China Daily. Government mandates will require manufacturers to sell 8 percent of their vehicles with electric or hybrid powertrains from next year, or purchase credits to make up the difference, rising to 20 percent by 2025.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oil Price: Iraq Faces Civil War Threat <\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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Blowout Week 194 Britain, France, Norway and India have already announced their intention to ban fossil-fuel-powered vehicles in favor of EVs and a number of other countries are considering it, and in this week\u2019s Blowout we feature China, which is about to join the club. To follow we have the usual mix of energy-related stories […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13275,11260,16000,11990],"class_list":["post-25744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-energy-matters","tag-evs","tag-roger-andrews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25745,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25744\/revisions\/25745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}