So EV's not selling, I'm shocked I tell yer. We went about it all wrong, Boris tried to rush it through without a thought, said so at the time, it was obvious they wouldn't sell.
Several companies, I think VW was one of them, said they had plans to be 100% electric by a certain year. I wonder if that's still going to happen. All electric may not be happening as quick as everyone expected but (at least in the US, can't say for UK) hybrids are becoming more and more common. They seem to be a more sensible compromise solution while batteries cost so much and don't last the life of the car. Biggest kicked for me is electric arnt manual transmission... I like getting to play with my stick.
I'd go hybrid, that was always my favoured option, because the father-in-law had one. Twice the mileage on a tank of fuel. We've tried to rush all this too soon, without thinking it through. You know what people are like, you have to phase this stuff in. I know the environmentalists will argue there isn't time, but it's not going to reach target anyway, people need to be realistic unless you start giving EV's away by subsidising the car makers, my latter point being how important is this to governments and climate ppl. If it's that important get your cheque books out.
The problem is unless Russia, China, India, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East go fully green we can not make the slightest of difference to Climate Change, I believe our effect green or otherwise amounts to 0.001% of the worlds carbon footprint The answer for the BIG boys on Climate Change is to give the most affected a few dollars to help then cope Unless the entire planet works together from now on we are ****ed long term, meanwhile with Ed (cocaine addict eyes) Miliband in charge of going green we are ****ed in the short term
I don't remember the exact numbers... But it takes a long time before electrics end up being greener than a regular car because of the batteries... I want to say 120k miles or something that range. And that's like for like.. so midsize car for midsize car. The American twat-mobiles like the Tesla Cyber truck and the Ford F150 lightening or the Humvee Truck... They may be electric but theyre never going to be greener than a reasonably sized combustion car. Not to mention, 4 or 5 tonne vehicles tear up the roads quicker and repaving is not green.
In Scandinavia 70% of people seem to own EVs. They sell extremely well. It's about price and infrastructure. Most people don't give a **** about what car they drive, as long as it looks OK, is a decent price and goes at a good speed. If EVs provide all that cheaper than a petrol car then you buy it.
Yeah, it's all well and good that China is transitioning to more green solutions But India is coming online now and they don't even wash their hands, let alone give a **** about emissions.
I think it was India (might be wrong), where Michael Palin had travelled the world and only ever became sick there, some might say coincidence, I don't think he would've agreed at the time.
Everyone's so woke and easily offended these days, let India take its medicine. Hey Modi, your country's a dump. Get cleaning you ****ing scruff.
Well done this man Former Prime Minister Lord David Cameron has backed moves to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults. In an article in The Times, Lord Cameron said that while he had opposed moves to legalise assisted dying in the past, he believed the current proposal was "not about ending life, it is about shortening death, external". Previously his main concern had been that "vulnerable people could be pressured into hastening their own deaths", but he said he believed the current proposal contained "sufficient safeguards" to prevent this. Lord Cameron becomes the first former PM to support the bill after Gordon Brown, Baroness Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss all said they were against it.
Like yourself mate, when you see a parent suffering at the end of their life, you see why something like this that shortens death is a good thing. We place so much emphasis on preserving and prolonging life, but there comes a time when quality of life is gone, that person IS going to die and if you can alleviate their suffering, then surely it is the most humane thing to do. We do it with our pets when we see that their life is at it's end, so why do we prolong the suffering of our nearest and dearest ? As long as the safeguards are in place to make sure it isn't abused (and I think it needs two doctors and a high court judge) then I'm in favour of it.
Absolutely mate. It’s going to be an emotive subject that everyone should tread carefully with because they’ll be arguments from both sides of the coin. For me, I watched my Dad who never showed a flicker of emotion his whole life screaming out in pain during the last 6 weeks, so I knew it was bad. At this point, he was in a bed, couldn’t even swing his legs out and stand up straight. He couldn’t go to the toilet, nothing. At this point he was literally just lying looking at the ceiling waiting to die but had to suffer the pain until that happened. It doesn’t seem right or fair, to me, that a government or anyone has the right to deny us shortening our deaths and avoiding the unnecessary pain.
