Here We Go

The cracks are starting to appear.

Germany and the European Union announced on Saturday an agreement in the dispute over the future of cars with combustion engines, allowing new passenger vehicles after 2035 provided they use climate-neutral ‘e-fuels’ only.

I know I referred to this the other day, but it’s worth mentioning again. As the insane ban grew closer with no viable alternative on the horizon – and, no, milk floats are not a viable alternative – they would have to backtrack and make no mistake, this is backtracking.

Good thing, too.

Now, does anyone have a supply of piano wire?

15 Comments

  1. Agreed. The reason new and used internal combustion engines are being bought in record numbers is solely because of the deadline. People are buying electric vehicles, but not in great numbers and only because of subsidies and virtue signalling.

    Expect further push back as the deadline gets closer and “Green fuel” fails to appear or is too expensive to justify common use.

    Same applies to gas boilers vs worthless heat pumps. As the deadline for cancellation gets nearer expect pressure on politicians to heat up. Unlike the heat pumps. 😀

  2. I understand there were proposals to mandate that a certain proportion of sales have to be milk floats, starting next year? Does anybody know the current status of this?

    Given that the milk float bubble has well and truly burst (burst? Fucking Hindenburg landing on an oil refinery next to a toxic waste dump!) how could they mandate the manufacture of things they nobody wants?

    The sensible thing to do is, of course, the one thing the green nazis are genetically incapable of doing: just shut the fuck up, forget they had ever heard of milk floats (and the fantasy infrastructure needed) and just let manufacturers quietly drop the whole thing.

  3. There was never any plan to upgrade the electricity supply in order to power all these electric cars. You can tell how stupid the politicians are just by considering the fact that this totally obvious problem never occurred to any of them.

    • Politicians don’t care about reality, only virtue signalling.

      NetZero will only matter when politicians stop getting elected because of it. Since there are currently no parties of significance with a “No NetZero” policy, just like BRExit we’ll have to wait for one to arise.

      Only when support for NetZero becomes a losing position for MP’s will this nonsense end.

    • Yes, there are almost 35 million private cars in this country. How will the National Grid cope when 35 million electric cars are being recharged at the same time?

      That pint-sized idiot mayor Khan is part of this whole anti-car thing. As I mentioned in another post in the last couple of weeks, he is chairman of an organisation called C40 Cities which wants zero car ownership by 2030.

    • Perhaps they assumed that everyone would have sufficient solar panels installed to charge the cars? Of course that assumes that you have a big enough roof and reliable sunshine, so a resident in a high rise block in Scotland is shit out of luck.

  4. I read that Reuters have reported insurance companies are writing off electric powered vehicles involved in collisions, ever minor ones, as there is no way, as yet, to repair or assess damage to the electric batteries, meaning it is cheaper to scrap the whole car. A knock on effect of this is insurance premiums for IC powered vehicles may rise to subsidise the insurance companies losses. The article refers to America, but how long before UK insurance companies pick up on this?

    • A conversaation with a Fire Officer in his training room gave this gem (paraphrased):
      “If we attend an electric or hybrid car that’s on fire, we’ll make sure that there is nobody in it and then walk away. We will not even point hoses at it – they are too dangerous”.
      Since thwn I hear that the plan is to put such a car in a tank or skip full of water – how do you get a burning car to a tank of water?

      • This already happened a couple of years ago in Germany. The problem is that lithium batteries contain all the ingredients to self sustain a fire. It takes thousands of gallons of water to extinguish, then it can keep reigniting for weeks. The car in Germany was a Tesla, and the only thing large enough to submerge the car was a privately owned portable swimming pool, kindly donated for the task by the owner, on the back of a low loader. It was put there by a mobile crane. The costs were huge. The car was transported to a scrap yard and when taken out of the swimming pool promptly reignited.

  5. What I find most hilarious (well, obviously not hilarious, but it’s one of those laugh or cry moments) is that eliminating carbon dioxide from the atmosphere would result in the death of all plant life. Having read “The death of Grass” by John Christopher as a young man, this seems a tad bonkers.
    Net Zero won’t happen, of course, but since Mr Galt is right about the politician/reality famine I dread to think how far the loonies will go.

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