Reply to post: Re: The ones calling for it first.

Electric vehicles won't help UK meet emissions targets: Time to get out and walk, warn MPs

CountCadaver Silver badge

Re: The ones calling for it first.

Thats the typical flawed and wishful "comfortably well off green activist" thinking - many a mickle maks a muckle and ignores the REAL world, where most people's pay is less in real terms than it was 30 years ago and that many households have a total income of less than £25K per annum, that utilities are soaring in cost to fund "smart meters" now forecast to save nothing and in fact to be a growing cost and thus the roll out has stagnated. (Likely to be discovered in 30 to 50 years that the whole thing involved brown envelopes between ministers and smart meter manufacturers along with copious levels of incompetence.) Latest ad campaign has dropped any mention of savings in favour of branding the electricity grid "outdated" from a shadowy group calling itself "the campaign for a smarter britain" more like the "campaign for a british surveillance state"

Where people can barely afford to get to work in the first place and drive as mass transit doesn't run when they start and finish work, costs a fortune or simply doesn't serve the place they work, that they need a vehicle to look after relatives, get them to hospital /medical appointments,

Our emissions are less than TWO percent of global emissions and falling year on year.

If you want to make a difference - don't have kids or keep it to two maximum, lobby the MAJOR polluters - Russia, China, USA, India to cut their emissions (they won't)

Force people out of cars and you'll rapidly find the next government would end up being led by nigel farage on a committment to "restore common sense" "push back against green fanatics" - which is chilling to me, but equally chilling is the growing clamour in green circles for authoritarianism, that suspending democracy in favour of a climate saving dictatorship is being openly discussed in positive terms by some green activist groups.

Next parliament may end up with a sizeable Brexit Party membership given current polling in the North of England and Midlands..........

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