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12th February 2022, 18:24 | #131 |
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The end of the world is nigh. Global warming. Or in other words, let’s make ourselves richer, said the rich man to his wife. We could all buy EVs and it would make no difference at all to global warming. Perhaps if America India and China were to go down the EV path, and cut their emissions, it might make a slight difference to global warning. And I agree, it is going to affect all the people in the street. And who do you think will be affected most of all? Global warning is here to stay, it’s been around since time began. Please read your history books gents, and quite honestly, it soon won’t make any difference to me, because I will not be around to see if all this money grubbing serves the purpose it is supposed to. A reduction in global warning. I will carry on taking the pills.
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Blimey! Hot off the press. Another one bites the dust "Volvo Cars has shoved its carbon-emitting engine business off its books by moving all of its internal-combustion powertrains to a new joint-venture company called Aurobay.
A creation of Volvo and its Zhejiang Geely Holding Group parent, the Aurobay joint venture means there are no more combustion engines within the Volvo Cars Group, with the carmaker keeping only its electric powertrains on its balance sheet." https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltay ... c672683b48
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12th February 2022, 21:44 | #134 |
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Until they ban air travel that uses Hydro carbon fuels, ships that burn vast quantities of fuel unfiltered and the major poluters on this planet like China, India and North America nothing is going to change. Even if we all switched to EV's tomorrow in Europe all the other poluters will more than cancel out the benefit and we will just be poorer for trying.
Hopefully I wont be here to see the consequnce of this but unless all 9 Billion of us do the same thing it is like taking a bucket of water out of the sea and saying that will stop all the floods around the world. |
13th February 2022, 09:53 | #135 |
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The planet has been going into ice ages then warming up in cycles for thousands and millions of years long before humans came along with aeroplanes, ships, cars and industry. When the majority of these ground to a halt globally for months during the first covid pandemic it didn't make a jot of difference whatsoever even though one scientist claimed we wouldn't feel the effects of the reductions for another couple of hundred years!
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.
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The government have announced today that the PICG (plug in car grant) has been withdrawn forthwith & the grant going to the diesel delivery van owners to transition to BEV vans to ween them off diesel https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/lat...-by-government
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Wasting a bit more of our money again. I believe that in the future, perhaps 100 years time, people will know what a load of t#@s%&@s my and the younger generation were. Sheep come to mind.
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14th June 2022, 21:20 | #139 |
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At the weekend there was an EV parked in the layby opposite my house. He had been to the couple of local charging points and both were faulty, he had tried the local supermarkets but none of them have EV charging points.
There were no others showing on his panel but he asked if I knew of any that might have been newly installed. He had run out of Electricty, I said he could plug into my house if that helped but he said it would take to long. An hour or so later an RAC van arrived and he was towed away I presume to a functiong charging point. If this is the future god help us, its bad enough running out of petrol but a small container of the very valuable juice can be poored in and you are on your way. |
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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.
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