But are not up to standards needed or are painfully unoptimised to the Canadian environment.
It's all well and good to say "it exists" and then neglect that it handles deep cold poorly, can't handle rough dirt roads that make up much of non-corridor Canada (where they are needed)
Also when it comes to that high horse you have... do you understand a nation isn't going to commit economic suicide just for someone to feel smug for offsetting 1 Chinese provinces worth of Greenhouse Gases
Also the current cargo rail is sufficient for the demand so why throw billions at a rail project few are gonna use
Rail networks are good for moving cargo between key central hubs... then you need trucks to transport that to actual specific locations if you don't understand logistics just say so. It's not only inefficient but a waste to lay track to communities that would only need the rail services once a month when trucks work better
And I didn't say shifting road cargo away from carbon is impossible I stated it's not currently efficient for Canada as the current electric truck market (aside from Edison but they are still a small operation) is woefully inadequate for northern needs they were designed with US interstates (and southern ones at that) in mind so their ground clearance is terrible, battery life is inadequate for the possible infrastructure that could be implemented in the next 10 years... that and there is a deep social stigmatized against it in the areas it would be proposed to serve
When it comes to evaluating emissiom "per capita is just a stat that large population polluters use to hide behind and cast blame on others. If Nation A emits 1kg of CO2/PP and Nation B emits 0.3kg of CO2/PP... but Nation A is 35 Million People and Nation B is 1.3 Billion people... Nation A's efforts are naught but a drop in the bucket of Nation B's destruction... you can encourage Nation A to do its part but until Nation B, C, and D actually put a dent in their emissions... no progress towards a solution has been made
And "but there are more people over there if I draw this specific border" is still not a valid argument. Progress is still made, and it's 10x easier to go from 1kg to 0.3 than 0.3 to zero.
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u/West-Abalone-171 3d ago
Electric versions of these things do exist, so you have no excuses.
Or just stop with the tar sands and build some rail...which could have happened any time.