The Farmers Club

The “Club Notes” for Thursday, the 1st of August, 2024.

By Dwain Duxson

Energy edition - Cracks getting wider

We wrote in our sister publication, the Farm Tender Daily, about how the Electric Vehicle (EV) market anywhere outside China is on the brink of collapse. Read the article here and see some snippets from the original article starting at the top of the Agribusiness section below. For governments striving for a lower immission economy, EVs are the primary go-to, the ones politicians the world over hang their hat on to make a difference. They are of the notion that if you shift the whole car industry over to electric, then most of your emission problems on one side of the equation are solved. The other side of the energy-go-round is renewable energy. This has its own problems in that it just can’t generate enough energy. We are spending billions subsidising foreign-owned companies (see the story below) to construct and run these projects that are delivering very little. So, for the government, both sides of the energy equation are failing, yet we keep investing our hard-earned taxes, trying to get to a target we are never going to be able to achieve. Do you think our politicians will come to some common sense and scale back our expectations on this?  Reply to [email protected]

What’s in the paid section today:

Story 2 - Our large energy projects are owned and run by foreign companies. One day, the subsidies will dry up, and these companies will walk away.

Story 3 - Businesses that set emission targets are pulling out of the very own programs they set. It’s an unwarranted business expense they now cannot afford.

Number of Farmer replies - 5 very interesting ones in total.

Number of articles and images - 61 in total with 14 funnies.

The Farmers Club - Not the Weekly Times but 6 Times Weekly

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