13-07-2019, 09:36 PM
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Re: An interesting item about electric vehicles
Originally Posted by Besoeker
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Assuming you have the capacity to do so. Most of us do not,.
You don't have electricity! I didn't realise Doncaster was so primitive, no wonder Clarkson left.
13-07-2019, 09:48 PM
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Re: An interesting item about electric vehicles
Originally Posted by Besoeker
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Assuming you have the capacity to do so. Most of us do not,.
Besoeker?
Regards Donkeyman!
13-07-2019, 10:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Ray Cathode
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You don't have electricity! I didn't realise Doncaster was so primitive, no wonder Clarkson left.
Do the arithmetic - if you can.
13-07-2019, 11:53 PM
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Re: An interesting item about electric vehicles
Originally Posted by Baz46
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When I read other items about banning petrol and diesels it really does make me wonder how on earth the country is going to function. The link below to the RAC on this is just one of many, it makes worrying reading when the proposals are only around ten to fifteen years' away:https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/mot...anned-by-2030/
So in eleven years electric cars will be compulsory. We shall not be allowed to drive our petrol cars and don't even mention diesel. Charging points will appear every few feet along the sides of all roads where the residents have no drives, and all motorway service stations will boast free electric charging facilities.
Buses and locomotives will all use electricity, of course, and HGVs will each include an additional trailer on the back to contain all the batteries needed to enable them to keep going as far as the next specially-adapted lorry park where they can be recharged overnight. Free accommodation for the drivers provided, of course.
I suppose they are assured that by 2030 we shall have covered our entire land with windmills and solar panels, that the country will have become eternally windy, and that the sun will shine for 24 hours a day with clear skies.
Then, of course, in another five years I fully expect that they will have extended their demands to our relying on electric aircraft too.
Needless to say, India, China and the rest of the world (with the exception of the EU Empire) will continue to use petrol, diesel and other fossil fuels, but at least we can smugly hold up our heads and boast that we are saving the planet.
14-07-2019, 05:13 AM
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Originally Posted by JBR
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I have long been convinced that our politicians live in Cloud Cuckoo Land, and this appears to confirm it.So in eleven years electric cars will be compulsory. We shall not be allowed to drive our petrol cars and don't even mention diesel. Charging points will appear every few feet along the sides of all roads where the residents have no drives, and all motorway service stations will boast free electric charging facilities.
Buses and locomotives will all use electricity, of course, and HGVs will each include an additional trailer on the back to contain all the batteries needed to enable them to keep going as far as the next specially-adapted lorry park where they can be recharged overnight. Free accommodation for the drivers provided, of course.
I suppose they are assured that by 2030 we shall have covered our entire land with windmills and solar panels, that the country will have become eternally windy, and that the sun will shine for 24 hours a day with clear skies.
Then, of course, in another five years I fully expect that they will have extended their demands to our relying on electric aircraft too.
Needless to say, India, China and the rest of the world (with the exception of the EU Empire) will continue to use petrol, diesel and other fossil fuels, but at least we can smugly hold up our heads and boast that we are saving the planet.
We cannot even build the required number of houses each year so how on earth is all that infrastructure going to materialise?
As for where all the money is going to come from to finance this Cuckoo Land dream I simply have no idea another pipe dream perhaps! Maybe I was dreaming when I heard Boris Johnson, on television recently, say that our national debt is now running at 85% of GDP?
Item 5 on the link below this text:
"At the end of the financial year ending March 2018, UK government gross debt was £1,763.8 billion (85.3% of GDP)."
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/gover...ent-gross-debt
Although I do believe there is an answer to all this perhaps we should just hang a sign on the UK "Vacant To Let" and all move out to China or India!
Forgive my obvious sarcastic sense of humour, it's all that keeps me going these days!
14-07-2019, 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Cinderella
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Politicians really are screwing the planet up, the last couple of posts sum up the whole chaotic predicament.
excessively, and at the same time believing their wants are
really needs has quite a bit to do with it as well!
Regards Donkeyman!
14-07-2019, 10:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Donkeyman
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Not entirely the politicians Cindy! The human habit of breeding excessively, and at the same time believing their wants are really needs has quite a bit to do with it as well!Regards Donkeyman!
14-07-2019, 10:47 AM
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Humans have evolved over time to be the only species that doesnt adapt to the world, it makes the world adapt to them.What proposals politicians would come up with to enforce population control. That has to be a global decision to be effective, just as the emissions reduction has to be.
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