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A few weeks earlier we went similarly to Aberystwyth for the day. This used more electricity, closer to £2 each way (108 miles x 2) because it was so hot we ran the aircon.
Battery cars are cheap motoring. Of course people will use them more than fossil fuel cars!
Last week we travelled 110 miles each way to Cardiff Castle for a day out. The marginal cost was ~1.7p per mile for electric or £1.88 each way. Less than my coffee in the cafe, for the return trip. We took a pack up, wet gear (unused) and shopped, returning to the car boot repeatedly. Happy days
Why. If the objective is to stop fossil fuel use and it does, then lets celebrate cheaper car travel‽
A BEV stuck in traffic is far less polluting than an ICE car. But on a cold / wet shopping day it beats a bike, walking or even a bus or train.
What do you conclude Prof?
It seems obvious to me that if the cost of travel falls more will happen. Further, less flexible modes like bus, train, cycling and walking can optionally be displaced by the convenience of a battery car too. It's not perfect but it beats fossil fuel pollution!
More of the usual kayfabe I guess. Putin, China, Ukraine, Israel, Biden, Immigrants, fossil fuels, the EU. #EatSleepRepeat
May be the law can save us? www.execprosec.com/about
Running the UK costs us (the government) about £1.3 billion pa or about £20,000 per person, all in.
So everyone (man, woman and child) needs to generate £20k for their share of the state. For each that doesn't, someone has to make it up or debt grows.
Another aporistic query!
Less than 0.005% of UK taxpayers are billionaires. They are rare even in the top 1%. The challenge is to find a fraction they will accept paying and that will work for the other 99.995% too.
£20,000,000 pa, per billion is pretty definitely paying their way in my mind.
I want to farm them for milk not beef.
Not a perfect analogy but it's brief.
#TaxWealth
I'm sure there must be a word to describe a short clear question or observation like yours that can't reasonably be answered in anything other than a long and complicated way. #TardisQuery