It's quite fully pissed me off because it has the potential to entirely derail my life

Hopefully when they see how unpopular the policy is they will decide against implementing it

People won't realise for 10-15 years

They don't know how fucking expensive electric cars are, even used

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i still want to know what we're supposed to do about the used market being a minefield of cars with shagged batteries requiring several thousands of pounds to have them replaced

What they should really do if they want to stop as many people buying diesel cars is help lower the price of electric cars

The cheapest serviceable electric car on autotrader tonight, used, is more expensive that most people spend on a used car of any kind

They can't, Lizard

They could try and subside the industry

There isn't that much money out there

And set a cap on the cost of them

You would have to subsidise both the new and used market

It ain't going to happen

Force the prices low and subside the industries so they can afford it

How do you force the prices low low?

Set a price cap on it

Then no electric cars will be sold

Or Nationalise the Industry

Lot's of ways to do it

How about: Don't bother

I'm just saying that they could have easily encouraged people to stop buying diesel cars without just banning them

Don't bother, legislate that public transport and commercial vehicles go electric first, and you sit back and wait for the market to act on private cars

No, they can't

my little runabout is petrol but so clean it's zero rated tax, and the CO rating in last weeks MOT was 0.0

Then their test is buggered

running that little car into the ground is infinitely more environmental than 'upgrading' to a new electric one

Carbon monoxide maybe

Quite

yeah thats not CO2

I agree

Side-effect of this ban will be to ramp up the price of non-electric cars in the used market

Though i doubt for a second the government will not just ramp the price of petrol and diesel up, even as it goes up naturally as the market shrinks

So we get fucked from every possible direction by these urban fucking parasites

I haven't felt this wound up since Blair fucked up the universities

every real world review ive seen of an EV has been negative

Oh, there are good EVs

when used in a long journey situation - problems with queues and faults and types, and the time it takes to charge with whatever you manage to find

Yeah, i'm not worried about that and most people wouldn't

It's the cost of the things that's the deal breaker

Putting aside all of the infrastructure and wherethefuckistheelectricgoingtocomefrom issues