Bell: 'It's lunacy' — Alberta pushes Carney to drop Liberal electric vehicle fantasy 'Straight-up lunacy.' That's how the Alberta government sees the Carney government's take on electric vehicles

Rick Bell

Edmonton Journal

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'Straight-up lunacy.' That's how the Alberta government sees the Carney government's take on electric vehicles

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“It’s lunacy. Straight-up lunacy.”

The words come from Devin Dreeshen, the Alberta government’s point man on transportation.

He has nothing against electric vehicles, EVs for short. You want one, buy one.

He just doesn’t think the government in Ottawa should be ramming the purchase of them down people’s throats.

Full disclosure. Dreeshen drives a RAM 1500 and isn’t apologizing to Liberals for doing so.

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Oh, the Liberals. Oh, how they like to tell us how to live.

Within five years, six out of ten new vehicles must be electric.

Within ten years, all new vehicles must be electric.

Dreeshen has plenty to say. On Friday, he fired off a letter to Chrystia Freeland, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s minister of transport.

Freeland was in Calgary this week and, as my last column pointed out, she said the Carney Liberals love Alberta.

We will see how that works out and we will get to that letter in a minute.

“The reason why the Liberals don’t reverse this policy is unfathomable.........