Message from @the1j
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I would imagine he is doing it because of the support for XR
Who was he listening to, and are they fucking mad?
Tory voting base was prepared to turn to civil disobedience just because they stuck a couple of pence a litre on fuel duty
Now they're faced with being priced out of private transport altogether
Well just when everything looked to be going well they just have to mess it up
SNP upset that they cannot influence english spending
It annoyed me so much that I wrote to my Tory MP today to try and talk some sense into him, fucking fat chance it'll do any good
I can't imagine how braindead the entire fucking top table has to be to think that this, announced in isolation, would be a good idea
It's still not enough for the environmentalists though https://twitter.com/CarolineLucas/status/1224606202337861634
Of course not, which is why it was fucking retarded even trying to appease them
Haven't they learned anything?
Gove is a clueless fuckwit
He intimated the price of electricity would be going down by 2035
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
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