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Blue Maverick
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ULEZ will end up a real money spinner as Euro 7 will be in before 2035, so everyone who’s just switched to Euro 6 will be fucked over.
Brewster's millions
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I was busy catching up with His Majesty’s visit to Paris actually.
The Future’s Blue!
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Is it even worth commenting on their bullshit anymore?
They’re just filling their coffers before they’re all fucked off to pick up their syphoned off rewards.
They’re just filling their coffers before they’re all fucked off to pick up their syphoned off rewards.
bluethrunthru
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net zero distracts you from this sort of stuff
Bodicoteblue
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They’re going to need him soon though, as sunak announced his career was on life support today.
blue for life
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The Tories can say whatever they want now. It’s fairly pointless as they will get smashed at the election even by a toothless Labour Party
bluethrunthru
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coz Tory
www.theguardian.com
Oliver Dowden takes near-empty RAF plane to UN talks in New York
Labour criticises deputy PM’s decision to use 158-seat Voyager instead of a scheduled service as ‘wrong on every level’
www.theguardian.com
Chippy_boy
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The only thing that surprises me is that it's taken so long to throw the 2030 car ban out of the window.
It is patently obvious that we have nothing like the charging infrastructure in place to support a dramatic shift to electric cars, and no chance whatsoever of getting it by 2030. Just imagine the necessary upheaval to get tens of thousands of public charging points into curbside locations in our cities - the new electricity substations needed, the thousands of miles of high capacity cables that need laying under dug up roads and pavements. With 6 years to go, this is completely impossible.
So if we stick to the 2030 plan, most people will NOT buy electric cars because they are too expensive, they never save you any money and the infrasture is not there to support them. And since they could not buy petrol cars instead, new car sales in 2030 would absolutely collapse.
Sunak could never paint it in these terms because doing so would be political suicide: Labour would have a field day criticizing the government's incompetence at not getting the infrastructure in place after 13 years in power.
So he is stuffed. But that doesn't change the reality that sticking to an unachievable target which if implemented would do terrible damage, would have been madness..It had to go.
Notable that the media has not picked up on the narrative from players such as JLR saying Sunak's change is a good idea and makes sense.
It is patently obvious that we have nothing like the charging infrastructure in place to support a dramatic shift to electric cars, and no chance whatsoever of getting it by 2030. Just imagine the necessary upheaval to get tens of thousands of public charging points into curbside locations in our cities - the new electricity substations needed, the thousands of miles of high capacity cables that need laying under dug up roads and pavements. With 6 years to go, this is completely impossible.
So if we stick to the 2030 plan, most people will NOT buy electric cars because they are too expensive, they never save you any money and the infrasture is not there to support them. And since they could not buy petrol cars instead, new car sales in 2030 would absolutely collapse.
Sunak could never paint it in these terms because doing so would be political suicide: Labour would have a field day criticizing the government's incompetence at not getting the infrastructure in place after 13 years in power.
So he is stuffed. But that doesn't change the reality that sticking to an unachievable target which if implemented would do terrible damage, would have been madness..It had to go.
Notable that the media has not picked up on the narrative from players such as JLR saying Sunak's change is a good idea and makes sense.