The article below gives the many good reasons why we should not risk buying an EV (electric vehicle) The rush to electric vehicles risks killing our car industry, shackling us to China and bumping up our taxes to reduce global emissions by just 0.044%. It is even possible that we could replace all of Britain’s cars and vans with electric vehicles and still find that carbon dioxide emissions are higher, not lower. Read all the details here:
Just as producers need taxpayer subsidies to supply electric cars, consumers need subsidies to buy them. An industry dependent on taxpayer support at both ends of the chain is not sustainable.
Nor can Britain’s electricity infrastructure be adapted easily or quickly to cope with the extra demand implied by the transition — without further subsidies. The whole policy simply does not make sense. The people simply won’t buy it, or at least not in the numbers the government is hoping. So what will happen then? Will the government back-track and allow fossil fuel cars to continue? Doubtful, as this will be a massive u-turn and lead to a complete loss of all credibility. So we are on a course leading to disaster with no way out. People will cling on to their old vehicles as long as possible and the car industry in the UK will die.
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July 10, 2023 at 01:55AM
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