With the New Year kicking in, the City of Ottawa reminded the plebs that new idling times for all automobiles on private or public land were now in effect:



Ottawa is the Canadian capital, where average temperatures range from -9C (15F) in December, -14C (6F) in January and Febuary, to -7C (19F) in March. The new time limits on pre-heating your car will allow one minute of idle time per hour for unoccupied vehicles.

That means using the remote starter to melt off the ice and warm the car up before piling into it for the morning commute is now verboten. It’ll also mean you’ll have to get out there in the -14C weather with your ice-scraper because there’s no way a minute of idle time is enough to defrost or de-ice your windshield.

Why?

In their own words:

"we are lowering greenhouse gas emissions and improving Ottawa’s air quality”

The entire nation of Canada is responsible for about 1.6% of Co2 emissions. You could eliminate the entire energy footprint of every Canadian (like maybe, forcing every last one of them to freeze to death in the winter) and it wouldn’t even move the needle in terms of reducing global emissions.

Via FactsOnClimate

Meanwhile China is still building and powering up about two new coal fired power plants every week:

Via Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA)

One can’t help but wonder how much Ottawa’s city council thinks how much net CO2 emissions they will cut by forcing citizens to cold start their cars.

There’s another problem…

Read the rest at Zerohedge.

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