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chas

chas

Legendary Knight
Big Sandy said:
I once got in an argument with a limp wristed greeny twat over my use of (his words) " A massively polluting outmoded form of transport" IE, my Land Rover.

I will take outmoded on the chin. But my response to him was that it was completely recyclable, had parts fitted after I reconditioned them that were in some cases 20 or 30 years older than the vehicle itself, and even though it only managed about 28mpg as an average, it had been around long enough for it's carbon footprint to be considerably less than the energy required to make a new eurobox.

He was looking a bit flummoxed at this point...so I asked him about his shiny new eurobox. Where did his stereo system come from? Argos, he says.... I point out that it's made in China, and will have travelled here in a container in a huge ship that burnt many hundreds of gallons of fuel to bring it here.

I then offered to show him my other carbon footprint. IE my foot on his arse.
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Just had, in the past half hour, a similar rant after seeing an EV ad on the telly (it was the shell charging points one). My motor is over 20 year old. The sparrows fart of CO2 it puts in the atmosphere (it's ULEZ compliant) is well offset by me not asking somebody to build me a new car.
Like @Big Sandy I burn through hydrocarbons at about 28 mpg but I truly believe it's a genuinely greener alternative to a newer vehicle in any shape or form.

AND IT'S PAINTED GREEN!

I've less carbon footprint than Greta (I don't take jets to conferences) so let me run my bike and my elderly gas guzzling car in peace.
 
Don the Don

Don the Don

Legendary Knight
chas said:
Just had, in the past half hour, a similar rant after seeing an EV ad on the telly (it was the shell charging points one). My motor is over 20 year old. The sparrows fart of CO2 it puts in the atmosphere (it's ULEZ compliant) is well offset by me not asking somebody to build me a new car.
Like @Big Sandy I burn through hydrocarbons at about 28 mpg but I truly believe it's a genuinely greener alternative to a newer vehicle in any shape or form.

AND IT'S PAINTED GREEN!

I've less carbon footprint than Greta (I don't take jets to conferences) so let me run my bike and my elderly gas guzzling car in peace.
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Like one of those shell adverts goes " nearly 1 in 5 new cars are EV" what a load of crap, so they want to change the infrastructure for not even 1 in 5 cars sold, I think I will still be running an old Diesel for as long as I can
 
MartytheMartian

MartytheMartian

Legendary Knight
When they say 'EV' do they mean pure EV or Hybrid? From what I've read a ton of the hybrids on the roads have never been charged in their life.
I wonder what the carbon footprint of all those outboard motors chugging across the Channel is and I would also love to know just how many foreign holidays, on jet liners all those holier than though wankers who spout about being 'green' have taken in their lives. I know a lassie who is all 'greener than thou' despite the fact that Daddy was in the oil business and she has gone hundreds of thousands of miles on airliners over the course of her life on Daddy's coin.
 
MartytheMartian

MartytheMartian

Legendary Knight
I agree @Don the Don but I read a report a while back that said that tons of companies, local authorities etc. were taking advantage of the tax breaks and other things meant to persuade people to buy EV's and buying them up but, once they were in service they were run pretty much exclusively on fossil fuels with many that were examined having the charging cables still in their original packaging in the boot. A scam.

A while back I was talking to a fellow I know who works for Arnold Clarks and he bought an H-EV because of the discounts and, as soon as they ended he got shot of the thing and went back to good old fahsioned go-juice.
 
Capt. Drunkey

Capt. Drunkey

King Of The Schnitzelwiesels
Anyone seen the newest episodes of the current Amazon Lord of the Rings season? Somewhere I read that it cost 1 billion dollars… 😵‍💫
May that be as it is, but my eyes almost fell out when they were introduced to black halflings. Followed by black elves 😳
Well you can top anything off by woking it to infinity: BLACK dwarfs 🤪

I am sitting in front of the tv, shaking my head in disbelieve, trying to conjure a black guy in a kilt, playing a bagpipe at the battle of Culloden.
And I am sure, we soon will have a movie showing exactly that.

Well, I always suspected that Frodo was gay, but never knew that he was a Hutu-Hobbit!

They will probably even pass a law stating that on tv and mass-media, every tenth snowflake depicted must be black. For we cannot go on discriminating the weather the way we did all these centuries!
 
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