MICK 56
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I reckon that is going to be the way it goes. If the fuel companies get the filling stations in the right places.
Some hope opposing the electric nightmare?
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Well, nobody saw this coming eh! 
BBC News - Fuel and excise duty must be replaced with new tax, MPs say
BBC News - Fuel and excise duty must be replaced with new tax, MPs say
Fuel and excise duty must be replaced with new tax, MPs say
The UK will be left with a £35bn "black hole" as motorists switch to electric cars, says Transport committee.
www.bbc.co.uk
MICK 56
Legendary Knight
And with electricity set to continue to rise in price, for the forseeable future, and beyond. It's not looking good.Well, nobody saw this coming eh!
BBC News - Fuel and excise duty must be replaced with new tax, MPs say
Fuel and excise duty must be replaced with new tax, MPs say
The UK will be left with a £35bn "black hole" as motorists switch to electric cars, says Transport committee.www.bbc.co.uk
Sarky B’stard
Legendary Knight
We're paying the price of successive Governments' political cowardice over energy decisions on coal, nuclear, fracking etc. Blair started it over nuclear renewal and we've had Tories wetting themselves over fracking too. Instead we import stuff which is hardly Carbon Effin' Neutral if you are simply exporting your pollution but then allowing France or Russia to set the price 
It's a problem three decades in the making and at least 5 years to fix.
It's a problem three decades in the making and at least 5 years to fix.
MICK 56
Legendary Knight
It could be longer than that. Nato/America have yet to resolve their pissing contest over Ukraine. That could very easily go seriously wrong, and probably will. Russia will send more and more of it's gas to China, and cut the supplies to Europe. It ain't looking good.We're paying the price of successive Governments' political cowardice over energy decisions on coal, nuclear, fracking etc. Blair started it over nuclear renewal and we've had Tories wetting themselves over fracking too. Instead we import stuff which is hardly Carbon Effin' Neutral if you are simply exporting your pollution but then allowing France or Russia to set the price
It's a problem three decades in the making and at least 5 years to fix.
Sarky B’stard
Legendary Knight
I am talking about how long it takes to plan & build a power station! We could be fracking in months.
Sarky B’stard
Legendary Knight
I would also love to see Nippy's face with cheap English gas when she's propped up by Greens inhibiting oil field development. Her naked stupidity and hypocrisy would have nowhere to hide.
Tallpaul
Legendary Knight
How many of us serfs have been saying this for years?Well, nobody saw this coming eh!
BBC News - Fuel and excise duty must be replaced with new tax, MPs say
Fuel and excise duty must be replaced with new tax, MPs say
The UK will be left with a £35bn "black hole" as motorists switch to electric cars, says Transport committee.www.bbc.co.uk
Exactly Paul,
My post was 100% sarcasm.
Anyone who purchased an electric vehicle thinking they'd save a fortune by doing so. Is obviously very easily duped
Don the Don
Legendary Knight
And paid a premium to have said electric vehicle in the first place, high purchase price, limited range, and lack of charging facilities that will also open up another can of worms when they realise it will not be on the same household tarrif if their homes are deemed viable to take a re-charging system as older housing may not be suitable, also that is if they have room outside their abode to park a car for chargingExactly Paul,
My post was 100% sarcasm.
Anyone who purchased an electric vehicle thinking they'd save a fortune by doing so. Is obviously very easily duped
Yep!
And how long before insurance companies refuse to pay out for a personal injury claim. If someone trips over a cable stretching across a public footpath?
Scrappy
Legendary Knight
My neighbour has just got one as a company car, and said he really likes it, although he also said he much preferred his Range Rover, and it is noticeable that he now drives his wife's VW Passat more than the Tesla
MICK 56
Legendary Knight
All new homes built in the new forest, as of later this year, will have no parking space, and no garage either. Fucking tree huggers have taken over the local council, and this is just the start of their stupidity.
HV66
Sword of Fenrir
Don the Don
Legendary Knight
Not for me but I suppose they have to go forward
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MartytheMartian
Legendary Knight
Not for me either. No interest in electric bikes.
chas
Legendary Knight
My current position is that the ICE is a significant factor in my love for cars and bikes. Eldest sprog has just been given an electric mini which I've yet to rag around. She likes it and is a 'driver' in the proper sense. Hated the R8 Audi that she drove, still has great affection for the Polo that I got as her first runaround (that thing flew, literally. She got it airbourne round the lanes). I still feel they'll have no soul. I think it'll feel like playing a video game without the feedback from an ICE. I'll give it a razz tho.
MartytheMartian
Legendary Knight
I read an article online which was asking if the 'Electric Revolution' will turn out to be as much of a scam as the whole 'Diesel is Better' business of the early 2000's. It suggested that, being much heavier, electric vehicles will wear through brake lining and tyre rubber much more quickly polluting the environment with particles of noxious material and also, being much heavier they are likely to kill far more people in accidents that regular ICE vehicles. Then there is the issue of charging and the pollution created in making the energy for it not to mention dealing with non-recyclable batteries and all the new chargers that would have to be manufactured and installed. I reckon that, in less than ten years, assuming I'm wrong about the apocalypse, they will turn around and say they were completely wrong about electric being the future and order that all EV's will have to be scrapped.