Teddy Eagle
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Just like Brexit voters.
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The Politics of 'Climate-change'
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Wisbech Eagle
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They have no choice but those providing services to them do. So they are also contributing, just not directly.
Teddy Eagle
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You could still go out tomorrow and get an electric car. Why add to the problem.
Wisbech Eagle
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They surely have not.
Those ideologically committed to Brexit still believe it was a wise decision and the pain it has caused was worth it, because it’s “our” pain. We have taken back control of our decline.
Teddy Eagle
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No. They found something which didn't deliver and moved on.
Wisbech Eagle
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Not yet. I don’t ever use finance. If I cannot buy outright I don’t buy. At present I face the possibility of significant expense to rectify a problem at my rental properties. There is also another very heavy cost on the horizon.
I will choose the right time.
Teddy Eagle
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Sure. The planet can wait until you're ready.
Wisbech Eagle
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I so wish that was true, but it isn’t. They wallow in a hole of self deception which they continually dig deeper. If they were prepared to move on, which in this case must mean back into the embrace and security of the collective strength of the EU, then we really could start to rebuild something. The EU is also weaker without us.
Wisbech Eagle
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The planet won’t notice what any individual does, but it will what all 7 billion of us do.
I do something as an individual but I support more being done collectively and that’s where the biggest wins lie.
cryrst
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So a few hundred or thousand more KG of co2 doesn’t matter because you don’t do finance.
As I said from the start.
It’s all about the money !
Teddy Eagle
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Come back when you've convinced the other 7 billion.
Wisbech Eagle
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As the car I now drive will continue to be driven by someone else that’s nonsense.
The world gradually switching to electric vehicles is being done but it requires the infrastructure, of raw materials, production and services to accomplish. That takes action at international levels and time.
One individual in this is irrelevant. It’s the bigger picture which matters.
Is there anyone who is in the slightest bit interested about another poster's finances ? Anyone?
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Yes, from the child labour to extract the lithium, the extensive land devastation that mining it causes, right through to the production of the batteries to run them - mainly those very same countries that still have high dependency on fossil fuels for their manufacturing industries. It apparently isn't really doing as much as one may think for 'green' issues.......
I have an electric car, a Polestar 2, and very nice it is. Did I buy this to be greener ,
no ( see Becky's post ).
I bought it because the Hong Kong Government paid almost half of the cost because I scrapped an old Toyota Camry. The amount of subsidy was more then ten times the value of the Camry as a used car.
The annual road tax is less than £100 compared to £700. The charging cost is about a tenth of the petrol costs I was paying.
If terms of tech, the new EV's are great, we have no long journeys here, one hour tops.
If the UK wants more EV's , bearing in mind they are not actually very green, they need to dramatically increase the subsidies and get more public charging stations in a hurry.
no ( see Becky's post ).
I bought it because the Hong Kong Government paid almost half of the cost because I scrapped an old Toyota Camry. The amount of subsidy was more then ten times the value of the Camry as a used car.
The annual road tax is less than £100 compared to £700. The charging cost is about a tenth of the petrol costs I was paying.
If terms of tech, the new EV's are great, we have no long journeys here, one hour tops.
If the UK wants more EV's , bearing in mind they are not actually very green, they need to dramatically increase the subsidies and get more public charging stations in a hurry.
Teddy Eagle
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Fred Flintstone had the right idea with his car. Both environmentally friendly and a good workout in one.
It is nonsense to base any policy on the UK being a strong voice in the world that will influence others.
The US, China, India and others will not do anything because the UK is " taking a lead ". The whole COP junket is a variation of Davos, hundreds fly in on private jets etc, the hypocrisy is unbounded.
If mad Miliband is allowed to actually put any of the madcap policies of net zero into motion, the damage to the economy maybe irreversible.
The US, China, India and others will not do anything because the UK is " taking a lead ". The whole COP junket is a variation of Davos, hundreds fly in on private jets etc, the hypocrisy is unbounded.
If mad Miliband is allowed to actually put any of the madcap policies of net zero into motion, the damage to the economy maybe irreversible.
and no punctures
Teddy Eagle
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No but a verruca could cause havoc on the M25.
Wisbech Eagle
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Exposing these kinds of abuses, which regrettably have existed since time began, is obviously necessary if we are to try to establish a fairer world.
Not all the cobalt or lithium is extracted with child labour. Here in Cornwall, pretty close to where I live, there is test facility which has drilled over 5000 metres deep to extract geothermal heat and convert it into electricity by recycling water through the site. They found lithium in the water and are now extracting that as well. It offers hope that the once vibrant mining industry here can rise again, but this time offering clean solutions to our problems.