The electric revolution is not working is it? I am having another go at EVs because they are a massive fraud.
Vauxhall closing its Luton factory because they aren’t selling enough electric vans. Companies prefer diesels, cheaper and greater range.
Nissan and Ford complaining bitterly that they can’t make the mandate work. 22% of sales must be electric and this will rise steeply until it becomes 80% by 2030 and 100% by 2035. That’s if this mad bad Labour government doesn’t bring the target forward again. Likely unless Mad Ed Milliband returns to his home planet, many light years away.
I was listening to a radio debate on this subject and it soon became obvious that the Pro-EV lobby consists of the smug middle-classes who can afford to install home chargers in their double garages and gravel drives and either don’t need to do long distances or can afford to take extended coffee breaks en route. And of course they can spend £50K on their Tesla or whatever to start with.
The fact is that EV sales are dropping like a stone. People don’t want them. At the same time dealers can’t release new ICE cars on their forecourt that people WANT to buy because of the stupid mandate. This is suppression of capitalism in a so-called democratic country. Or at least we WERE one until this Labour lot got in.
Even if everyone agreed that electric was the future it wouldn’t work. Imagine if countless millions of these dratted EVs were plugged in to recharge. The national grid couldn’t cope with the demand especially if fed by wind farms and solar parks. The whole scheme is ridiculous.
Then consider the cost to the planet of these “environmentally friendly” transport devices. The deforestation and habitat destruction from the mining of cobalt and lithium, the child-slave implications, the growing dominance of China in Africa and just about everywhere else. The cheaper EV cars are made in China, subsidised by that state.
What about the safety implications? The Fire Brigades are already warning that battery fires are almost impossible to put out and cause massive explosions due to thermal runaway. And EV collisions do much more damage due to the sheer weight of these monsters. Is this why they are so expensive to insure? The pothole problem is made considerably worse by heavy EVs.
Working class folk who live in flats or terraced houses and don’t have big salaries will miss out on the grand EV revolution. Am I cynical in suggesting perhaps they are meant to? Isn’t this a rather clever socially engineered way of getting millions of cars off the road? After all, this metropolitan government don’t care about anything or anyone outside their own circle. We can all use buses (they’ve just increased the subsidies as well as the fares) or bikes. They hate farmers and rural life. People will be stuck in tiny communities just like the 19th century. After all it would be so much better for the environment.
The EV revolution is actually designed to turn back the clock to a time when only the rich and ruling classes can afford their own transport. My guess is that they will try to price our ICE cars off the road with higher fuel duty and road tax. Not this year but probably starting next budget. They were too scared to take on motorists as well as pensioners, farmers and business. But it’s coming soon. Two tier two Kier Britain strikes again.
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