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Electric cars can't cut UK carbon emissions while only the wealthy can afford to own one

Alan Brown Silver badge

"Few countries have gone full-retard the way we have."

I can think of one - around the 1930s, very enthusiastic about back to the past, country cottages, nature, greenery and crystal quackery

It was Germany and the most enthusiastic adoptors of such fakery were the Nazis.

That was our saving grace - because in their zeal for such things, they drove out all the experts and scientists, essentially shooting their war effort in the foot - much like we're doing now to our economy.

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