Canada's target of 100% zero-emission vehicle sales by 2035 with interim targets of 20% by 2026 and 60% by 2030 reminds Paul of Stalin's Five-Year Plan, which was internally inconsistent and mathematically impossible; California tried an all-electric vehicle standard in the 1980s and never met it before canceling it.
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“it reminds me a little bit of when I was in college and I was studying modern economic history and we had to study Stalin's Five-Year Plan... California had an all electric vehicle standard in the 80s and they got nowhere near meeting it and canceled it”
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'Never Before Seen' Oversupply Of Oil To Collapse Crude Price? | Doomberg & Paul Sankey— David LinCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:45:10 PM
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