I saw an online story about “what if the Government are shafting the public with electric cars just like they did with diesel?”*
Set me thinking: what exactly is the point of electric cars from a pragmatic viewpoint? And: do (better off) people buy them just to virtue signal?
If you have to use a car in a ULEZ zone maybe they have a point (as long as you can find somewhere to charge it) but otherwise?
Checklist:
Save the planet? No (stopping UK pollution won’t make an iota of difference).
Save money? No (a new one will cost more than double a conventional car equivalent and cheap running costs are at the whim of Government).
More convenient? No (are you having a laugh?!).
Elegant engineering solution to a nebulous problem? (Oh please – since when was dragging 750Kgs of expensive dead weight, and rare earth minerals mined by child labour, a good idea?!)
Warm glow from being seen to be “doing my bit to help the Greens”? YES, that’s it (you are a CUNT with too much money!)
Nominated by: Mikdys