... let everybody buy electric vehicles (that are made using fossil fuels) so that they could recharge using fossil fuels (energy doesn't come out of the air) and have batteries that are very difficult to dispose off. All so environmentally friendly!

Yes, I agree it's not a perfect solution (as you describe in your post). There are definitely areas that need to be improved and/or changed in order for the elimination of using fossil fuels to be fully beneficial. So for example in your post, what if the factory that produces the electric vehicles was completely powered by solar panels (located on the roof of the massive car factory) instead of fossil fuels. In addition, what if the batteries that the electric vehicles use were renewable and never needed to be discarded? Would that make it more attractive in your opinion to switch from fossil fuels to something more renewable and less damaging to the environment?

Up here, even our mainstream print news-media formally support Canada’s fossil fuel industry. Conglomerate Postmedia — which, except for The Toronto Star, owns Canada’s major print publications — is on record allying itself with not only the planet’s second most polluting forms of carbon-based “energy”, but also THE MOST polluting/dirtiest of crudes — bitumen. [“Mair on Media’s ‘Unholiest of Alliances’ With Energy Industry”, Nov.14 2017, TheTyee.ca]

And, yes, it does have an effect on coverage! A few years ago, Postmedia had also acquired a lobbying firm with close ties to Alberta Premier Jason Kenney in order to participate in his government’s $30 million PR “war room” in promoting the industry's interests. Furthermore, last May, Postmedia refused to run paid ads by Leadnow, a social and environmental justice organization, that exposed the Royal Bank of Canada as the largest financer of the nation's fossil fuel extraction.

Up here, even our mainstream print news-media formally support Canada’s fossil fuel industry. Conglomerate Postmedia — which, except for The Toronto Star, owns Canada’s major print publications — is on record allying itself with not only the planet’s second most polluting forms of carbon-based “energy”, but also THE MOST polluting/dirtiest of crudes — bitumen. [“Mair on Media’s ‘Unholiest of Alliances’ With Energy Industry”, Nov.14 2017, TheTyee.ca]

And, yes, it does have an effect on coverage! A few years ago, Postmedia had also acquired a lobbying firm with close ties to Alberta Premier Jason Kenney in order to participate in his government’s $30 million PR “war room” in promoting the industry's interests. Furthermore, last May, Postmedia refused to run paid ads by Leadnow, a social and environmental justice organization, that exposed the Royal Bank of Canada as the largest financer of the nation's fossil fuel extraction. ... This is not a partisan position for any news-media giant to take, especially considering fossil fuel's immense role in man-caused climate change.

... its not just the manufacturing process that uses fossil fuels, but the vehicles themselves have multiple hydrocarbon components!

why do we often hear quotes in the dailies from the losers? i don't get it

...and the same people who would not make Graham Weatherford Minister of Energy & Natural Resources. Uhm. So funny - easy to complain when not in power, but when they had the chance to DO something they refused.

It is not the Bahamas' target by 2030 to reduce its dependance on fossil fuels , it is the united nations' target. We do as the masters say. We have always done so. It is in our blood to be bullied and.slav3d to others. Tell that to the americans, europeans and chinese that consume everything. I dont need 6 shower heads in my bathtub to take a shower. I dont wast3 food because I can. I dont throw something away because it is broken and walmart is right around the corner. We are a.drop iof liquid in a large lake.

The globalist elite trillionair EU faction won't dare demand their armies to go electric. Armies are exempt from conversion to electric. Their millions of vehicles tanks,boats and planes are major polluters. But, sadly the rush to make trillions from a switch to electric vehicles was made obsolete with the creation of a half power new world order and a split in earth resources of lithium gold and copper. When the wind stopped, so did the windmills. When the clouds came, so went the solar,then, back to the Earth's created fossil fuels. The Bahamas, voted as the world's cleanest Air has a zero carbon footprint yet we live on big nations calculations for which we cannot afford and will lead us to financial ruin. All we do is repeat an energy policy handed down to us from the elites without any regard to our clean environmental air quality.

Here in the corporate-powered West, if the universal availability of green-energy alternatives would come at the expense of the traditional energy production companies, one can expect obstacles, including the political and regulatory sort. If something notably conflicts with corporate big-profit interests, even very progressive motions are greatly resisted, often enough successfully.

As individual consumers, however, too many of us still recklessly behave as though throwing non-biodegradable garbage down a dark chute, or pollutants flushed down toilet/sink drainage pipes or emitted out of elevated exhaust pipes or spewed from sky-high jet engines and very tall smoke stacks — even the largest toxic-contaminant spills in rarely visited wilderness — can somehow be safely absorbed into the air, water, and land (i.e. out of sight, out of mind). It's like we’re inconsequentially dispensing of that waste into a black-hole singularity, in which it’s compressed into nothing. Indeed, I, myself, notice every time I discard of trash, I receive a reactive Spring-cleaning-like sense of disposal satisfaction. (I even feel it, albeit far more innocently, when deleting and especially double-deleting email.) ...

Still, thinking about the awe experienced and even love felt by astronauts for the spaceship Earth below, I wonder: If a large portion of the planet's most freely-polluting corporate CEOs, governing leaders and over-consuming/disposing individuals rocketed far enough above the earth for a day's (or more) orbit, while looking down, would have a sufficiently profound effect on them to change their apparently unconditional political/financial support of Big Fossil Fuel?

**A staggering 38% chunk of Darren Henfield's North Abaco's FNM registered voters,** didn't bother to turnout to polling stations to cast ballots on 2021 General Election Day, ― Yes?

With the often-unprecedented man-made global-warming-related events — in particular the bone-dry-vegetation areas uncontrollably burning — one wonders how many fossil-fuel industry CEOs and/or their beloved family members may also be caught in global-warming-related harm’s way.

Assuming the CEOs are not sufficiently foolish to believe their descendants will somehow always evade the health repercussions related to their industry’s environmentally reckless decisions, I wonder whether the unlimited-profit objective/nature is somehow irresistible to those business people, including the willingness to simultaneously allow an already threatened consumer base to continue so, if not be threatened even further? It somewhat brings to mind the allegorical fox stung by the instinct-abiding scorpion while ferrying it across the river, leaving both to drown.

Still, there must be a point at which the status quo can/will end up hurting big business's own bottom-line interests. ...

Also, it’s no longer prudent to have all or even most infrastructure reliant on such traditional sources of power, regardless of — or, maybe, due to — collective humankind’s vulnerable over-reliance on planet-warming fossil fuels.

But if the universal availability of a renewable-energy alternative, such as mass solar-energy harvestation, would come at the expense of the traditional ‘energy’ production companies’ large profits, one can expect obstacles, including the political and regulatory sort. That applies here in the West as well as Asia.

If something notably conflicts with long-held and deeply entrenched corporate interests, even very progressive motions are greatly resisted, often enough successfully. And, of course, there will be those who will rebut the renewable-energy type/concept altogether, perhaps solely on the illogic that if it was possible, it would have been patented already and made a few people very wealthy.

Communist Red China puts more dangerous and toxic greenhouse gas pollutants into our atmosphere in a single day than The Bahamas (excluding cruise ship pollution) would do in an entire century. Suggest you suck hard on that egg for a moment to ensure you properly digest it.