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Originally Posted by Comfortably Numb

MG John said:"Meantime, I will continue to enjoy my Petrol Turbo MGs and Rovers until such time as they send the big strong geezers in white coats after me...". Except it will be the be the big strong geezers in the dark blue uniforms and stab vests! For my part, I am looking forward to the day I can afford an EV that will get me from A to B without the inconvenience that the current technology and infrastructure apparently provide. I think you would have to recognise that whatever its causes, climate change is real, and at a rate that humanity is struggling to adapt to. While I am old enough to take the complacent attitude that it probably won't affect me that badly, the sooner we stop adding to the planet's atmospheric energy, the more chance we have of having the time to adapt to the ever more extreme weather events that will reduce our advanced technological world to submerged rubble, and leave our children spend their lives trying to cope with results of our generation consumption-driven and self-indulgent indulgent lives. No wonder a highly intelligent 16 year old is leading her non- compliant rebels to take actions that will hopefully shake the complacency of so many of us older folk. Are we going to carry on dancing on the deck of the Titanic because somebody said it was unsinkable? There may actually still be time to plug the leak, or close the bulkhead doors.

I have never heard so much #@*% spouted in all my life about E.v. Propulsion. Anyone who knows anything about electricity, knows that it has to be firstly generated, and then distributed, and /or stored. In the case of cars that run On electricity, they need batteries. The batteries need to be ‘filled up’ with electric. One question:- where is all this electric coming from? We are already on a knife edge when the winter comes because of household consumption. We have already had requests during winter to companies to cut their consumption. The whole #*%@ surrounding electric vehicles is tantamount to fear mongering against anything that for the time being is going to be used by the majority of people, THE PETROL/DIESEL car. The batteries:- made of lithium. Where does it come from? Mostly from African countries, where the population is used on slave wages to mine it. It is relatively rare and hard to mine. How often do the batteries need to be changed? Where do they then go to be ‘taken apart’? The actual pollution from EV’s is more dangerous than what we have now. Don’t believe me? Look it up on the net, freely available to anyone who really cares about the environment. The young woman Thunberg is being used by people who support this iniquitous industry. Look it up again.