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Old 15th June 2022, 03:41   #141
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Our EV is great. Fun to drive and saving my wife a fortune on her daily commute.
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Old 15th June 2022, 07:17   #142
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I'm all for cleaner air but this global warming thing being caused by ourselves and not a natural earth weather cycle is a nonsense.

Are you a climate scientist?
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Old 15th June 2022, 11:25   #143
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Are you a climate scientist?

I am.... Iv looked outside my window for 60 odd years and thought.. Mmmm things are changing.
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Old 15th June 2022, 12:22   #144
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Are you a climate scientist?

I am.... Iv looked outside my window for 60 odd years and thought.. Mmmm things are changing.

Did you ever think of relating that insight to the smoke belching out of your lorry's exaust as you enjoyed the Yorkie bars?
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Old 15th June 2022, 12:30   #145
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Our EV is great. Fun to drive and saving my wife a fortune on her daily commute.

Please try not to spoil our fun with facts based on first-hand experience and knowledge. It just doesn't work like that.

Young born with three ears and one eye will be able to live happily, with one semi-functional lung, on the planet for thousands of years to come.

We are cool with the way things are.
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Old 15th June 2022, 14:39   #146
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Will be a cold day in hell before I have an EV.
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Old 15th June 2022, 14:45   #147
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I'm just waiting for the day I see a line of broken down EV's while I slowly drive past them in a fully functional petrol.

Oh how I'll laugh.
Too late old chap! Us EV drivers have had so many chances to laugh at the luddites reliant on lots of little explosions to move them down the road recently. I remember being amused by the poor sods trying to find petrol stations with fuel so they could join a long queue in the hope some would be left for them! In these days of petrol and the devil's fuel costing over £8 a gallon, I am further amused as my car has been powered by free sunlight for nearly the last 3 months from our PV panels. Not so cheap in the winter when we might have to buy £15 (less than the cost of 2 gallons...) of electricity to propel us 250 miles.

I would state also that I think to "climate catastrophe" is merely the latest Doomsday cult and will turn out to be no more true than any of the previous ones! Our EV is the fastest, quietest, most comfortable car I have had in over 50 years of motoring. I also suspect it is the cheapest to run!
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Old 15th June 2022, 20:07   #148
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Did you ever think of relating that insight to the smoke belching out of your lorry's exaust as you enjoyed the Yorkie bars?
Says th champagne socialist...
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Old 15th June 2022, 20:12   #149
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Please try not to spoil our fun with facts based on first-hand experience and knowledge. It just doesn't work like that.

Young born with three ears and one eye will be able to live happily, with one semi-functional lung, on the planet for thousands of years to come.

We are cool with the way things are.
WE... who's we. Dont make assumptions about other's without permission.
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Old 15th June 2022, 20:20   #150
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I hate to be party pooper but, it may be cheaper to charge a vehicle now but what happens when we take to electric cars and the cost of charging when the government coffers have reduced because of loss of tax on fuel. I remember the Blair government encouraged us to go diesel.
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