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‘GREEN FANATSY’ Plans to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars slammed by fuming voters

January 31, 2022

By Paul Homewood

 

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BORIS Johnson is facing a voter backlash over plans to ban new petrol and ­diesel cars sales in 2030.

Three out of five would not vote for an MP who backs the idea, a survey reveals.

There is also overwhelming ­support for a referendum on the Government action to hit its net zero target for harmful emissions.

Most alarming for the PM is hardening opposition to curbs on motorists among voters in the former Red Wall seats.

Some 79 per cent of them say it is unlikely or impossible he will hit a 2050 net zero goal.

The growing anger is revealed in the study of 41,000 road users, including car, van and taxi drivers, truckers, bikers, cyclists and walkers.

Tory Craig Mackinlay, chairman of the Net Zero Scrutiny group of MPs, said: “A big backlash is brewing unless we see a change of direction soon.”

FairfuelUK founder Howard Cox, who organised the survey with the Alliance of British Drivers and the Motorcycle Action Group, accused ministers of “green ­fantasy edicts”.

He warned it could lead to a “massacre at the ballot box” for the Tories.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/motors/8355455/prime-minister-lose-key-voters-banning-petrol-cars/

66 Comments
  1. Nicholas Lewis permalink
    January 31, 2022 1:41 pm

    good but liberals and labour would do worse so short of an anti green party can’t see it having a material impact but ought to result in some watering down and reassessment of what is practically possible in the fullness of time

  2. Richard permalink
    January 31, 2022 1:41 pm

    It will be the same for all parties

  3. Simon Newington permalink
    January 31, 2022 1:55 pm

    I understand Nigel Farage may make a referendum on Net Zero a real political campaign issue .I hope he does and we have another Brexit result to stick two fingers up to the promotors of this madness.

    • Harry Passfield permalink
      January 31, 2022 2:45 pm

      Any referendum on NZC, which I welcome, would need to invest a lot of time and energy in educating those who follow the herd and think a state of ‘climate emergency’ will not affect them. That means that speakers who are seen as ‘deniers’ will need to sure to get time in any debates – and be bloody good at getting the message over.

      • In The Real World permalink
        January 31, 2022 3:33 pm

        It is probably the time to start trying to spread the truth to as much of the public as is possible .

        The truth is that EVs are very expensive , will never do as many miles as needed for a lot of people , and there is nowhere near enough generation capacity to charge up more than a very small percentage of them at any time ..

        And then there is the fact that , in the UK , CO2 emissions from vehicles / driving only make up 1 part in 100 million parts of the atmosphere .
        A fact that the media have been very careful not to admit in case the public start to see through the whole scam ..

      • Nial permalink
        February 1, 2022 9:46 am

        “The truth is that EVs are very expensive , will never do as many miles as needed for a lot of people , and there is nowhere near enough generation capacity to charge up more than a very small percentage of them at any time”

        Also AIUI looking at the entire life cycle of electric against petrol or diesel there is _NO_ saving in CO2 (if you think that’s important).

        Until technology improves, EVs are complete and utter madness.

    • Phoenix44 permalink
      January 31, 2022 6:56 pm

      We need referenda on each of thd main planks of Net Zero – ICE ban, gas boiler ban, higher bills, flying bans, meat bans etc.

    • Vernon E permalink
      January 31, 2022 7:05 pm

      NO, NO,NO. The support for green is so strong among the politically involved that a referendoum would be lost and that would be the end of any opposition to this insanity.

      • jezburns permalink
        February 1, 2022 1:04 am

        True, the political classes would have no problem rigging a referendum if they could tell themselves it was in the interests of ‘saving the planet’, and would easily have the resources at their disposal to do it. Sadly it seems likely the insanity will only end following a big collapse, and even that seems to be part of the plan of those driving this thing.

      • Andrew Wilkins permalink
        February 1, 2022 5:11 pm

        I agree with you. I believe the only way sceptics can swing the electorate is by pointing out how ruinously expensive “net zero” is. Multiple surveys have shown that people support the green hysteria until they are asked to pay for it, then they very quickly back down.
        The electorate only need to be reminded about how much their energy bills have shot up to recently, and then told that the drive to “net zero” would cost them a whole lot more. People would soon fall out of love with the green cult.

      • Phil O'Sophical permalink
        February 1, 2022 6:44 pm

        Agree. Especially after the Brexit vote it would never be fair, and look how many people supported house arrest for a relabelled flu, and dutifully scurried off for a toxic experimental jab.

        Practicality and the wallet will bring it down, unless we are all chipped sheep controlled with a digital currency by then.

        It is hard to tell whether the current energy chaos is the agenda collapsing or part of the agenda.

  4. charles wardrop permalink
    January 31, 2022 1:55 pm

    The manmade climate change and NetZero campaigns are fraudulent, deserving to be quashed, forthwith. Most politicians do not understand that and need effective re-education or we are all financially finished and societally risking revolution.

    • jimlemaistre permalink
      January 31, 2022 6:16 pm

      Thank you Mr. Wardrop for using the word ‘Fraud’. You took the words right out of my mouth . . . For thirty years public policy initiatives in western countries have led to our economic capitulation. All the things that cause pollution at home have been transferred to countries with little to no regulation . . . Global pollution remains THE SAME. Now, we look good on paper . . . Success !

      Meanwhile things like Solar, Wind, Hydro and Bio fuels are accredited as ‘Green Sources’ of energy because they do not burn fossil fuels, here . . . What goes into these technologies is completely overlooked . . . Worst in all of this is the ‘Green Credits’ ascribed to there new sources of energy . . . tradable credits . . . 1 Trillion dollars worth are traded, Globally, annually. To immense profit for sellers and traders.

      Carbon Trade is Already Covering the Equivalent of one Half of World Energy Emissions . . . A 1 Trillion dollar Value . . .

      Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE) has said that trading in carbon allowances reached a record volume in 2021 on its various markets — the volume of buying and selling reached the equivalent of about one half of ALL global energy emissions.

      A total of 18 billion tons of ‘Carbon Allowances’ was traded in 2021. Equivalent to an estimated $1 trillion in US dollars according to ICE. It trades by far the biggest market share in the global market, though other exchanges including the European Energy Exchange (EEX) brokers also handle sizable volumes, as well.

      Reflecting on how companies use these markets to manage and price ‘Climate Risk’, as well as meet their compliance obligations, the traded contracts included a record 15.2 billion tons of EU carbon allowances and a record 2.4 billion tons of California carbon allowances as well as 346 million tons of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative allowances. Then also, following its launch in May 2021, the 255-million-ton U.K. carbon allowances.

      This year ICE will be expanding their carbon credit markets to value and support the preservation of ‘natural assets’, as well as launching their first carbon futures index on contract to provide access to the global cost of emissions in one instrument.
      Gordon Bennett, Managing Director of Utility Markets at ICE.

      Most of the trades and exchanges are based on The Electric Car ‘Zero Emissions’ Fraud!

      https://www.academia.edu/52039545/All_Electricity_Poisons_Planet_Earth

      https://www.academia.edu/49057069/Electric_Cars_Burn_31_More_Energy_than_Gas_Cars

      This may well be the biggest ‘Fraud’ ever perpetrated on humanity in history . . .

  5. January 31, 2022 1:59 pm

    Of course, this is several orders of magnitude more important than cakegate.

    I’m very suspicious that the latter (as irritating as maybe) has been confabulated (a) by remoaners to attempt to scupper Brexit and (b) by Ruinable Energy scammers to draw attention away from the (genuine) Climate Crisis (i.e. the price and availability of energy).

    • Phoenix44 permalink
      January 31, 2022 6:58 pm

      Dominic Cummings further attempt at his petty revenge. And timed to discredit Johnson when he finally stood up to SAGE and won.

      Can’t stand Johnson but I hate being manipulated by Cummings more.

  6. Peter G Barrett permalink
    January 31, 2022 2:06 pm

    Much of the damage is already done. Institutional funding (including your pension fund) is already moving into “favoured” industries, new funding applications must justify their “green credentials” and the momentum is growing quickly. Unless there is a sudden and drastic change there will never be fracking in the UK.

    I.C. engine research has more or less stopped, so the 5-10% economy and performance improvement we might have seen over the next decade or so is now in the bin, just one more consequence of the inadequacy of our ruling establishment elite.

    • Ray Sanders permalink
      January 31, 2022 4:29 pm

      “I.C. engine research has more or less stopped, so the 5-10% economy and performance improvement we might have seen over the next decade or so is now in the bin,”
      Quite possibly but by no means certainly. There are a number of potential research breakthroughs with regard to Thermo-Electrical generation (TEG). The advent of the ICE/Battery hybrid makes electricity generation from the engine’s waste heat ( a large proportion through the exhaust) an interesting possibility. Currently TEG is very low efficiency (though incredibly reliable with no moving parts) but with new allotropes and structures of carbon (Fullerenes etc) there is the very real possibility of quite high conversion efficiency (over 20%) which for little weight increase would make for huge reductions in fuel consumption.

  7. Colin R Brooks AKA Dung permalink
    January 31, 2022 2:11 pm

    I do not think Boris will change direction on green issues ( Carrie will not allow it), I think a referendum is our best chance but also we need a safe vote at the next election. As Nick points out above, Labour and the Lib Dems would probably be worse than Boris so I see only two alternatives. One option is NONE OF THE ABOVE, but maybe the REFORM PARTY set up by Nigel is a very safe vote.

    • Gerry, England permalink
      January 31, 2022 5:13 pm

      No, the Reform party led by Tice are just the same as Blue Labour. The only ray of hope is a renewed UKIP now that the idiot Farage has gone. There is whole area of free space for a conservative party to occupy.

      • It doesn't add up... permalink
        January 31, 2022 6:03 pm

        UKIP have even less traction than Reform at the moment. I don’t see it.

      • bobn permalink
        January 31, 2022 6:58 pm

        Why do you say ‘idiot farage’? He achieved the highest right-wing protest vote in UK history. UKIP failed when he left. He made mistakes but compared to the rest he’s a breath of fresh air. He is also the only right of centre politician that can garner a vote.

      • Paul H permalink
        January 31, 2022 9:26 pm

        ‘There is a whole area of free space for a conservative party to occupy.’. Agreed. But it’s been there for decades and any initiatives, which aren’t necessarily parties, that try to fill it are ruthlessly crushed. We are truly in the Matrix.

      • Ben Vorlich permalink
        February 1, 2022 11:13 am

        @bobn. Farrage is like the leader of a gang of school boys, throws a stone through a shop window, or encourages the rest to throw stones. Once the window is broken runs away first.
        He was very happy in the European Parliament and leading a party in the UK disrupting Tory politics. Nice easy living. As soon as there was some responsibility and a potential to lead he ran away.
        One of the great ironies of his career, in my opinion, is he spend 40 years complaining/campaigning about leaving the EU then tells those in favour to stop complaining and make the best of it. Mind you I’m no lover of politicians of any shade or shape.

    • Rowland P permalink
      January 31, 2022 11:37 pm

      No, look at the Heritage Party’s manifesto.

      • Ben Vorlich permalink
        February 1, 2022 11:19 am

        From the manifesto

        The United Kingdom is already over-populated and dependent on food imports to survive. We should aim to lower our dependency on food imports and ultimately become self-sufficient in food. The United Kingdom has some of the best agricultural land in the world which is a precious resource and should be preserved for agriculture. Despite this, there is huge pressure to concrete over large areas of our green belt and the countryside to build housing for artificially inflated population growth, or for solar panels and wind turbines to satisfy the false claims of green ideology. This pressure must be resisted
        Seems a reasonable starting point, but I’d never heard of them until I read your post.

  8. Terence Carlin permalink
    January 31, 2022 2:13 pm

    The media appear to be hanging the green Agenda on the Tories without explaining that the original legislation was introduced by Ed Miliband and supported by both sides of the House.
    Added to this the the Climate Change Committee an all party committee is pushing more eco lunacy cheered on by the media whilst we reduce our UK production of North sea oil and gas whilst simultaneously importing more from abroad. Rational argument highlighting the weakness of the case for AGW has failed against a dooms day narrative that the media has been keen to promote. The solution to what is a political problem is difficult and I am not convinced that any of the parties will pull back or reverse the Climate Change Act until the public start to feel the pain of the current policies by which time it may be too late to avoid the economic damage to the country.

    • Chilli permalink
      January 31, 2022 2:55 pm

      > media appear to be hanging the green Agenda on the Tories

      Well, they have been in continuous power for the last 12 years. Plenty of time to scrap Milliband’s idiotic legislation – but instead they’ve embraced it and made it worse.

    • ThinkingScientist permalink
      January 31, 2022 5:42 pm

      A formal agreement was signed by Labour, Lib Dems and Conservatives in 2015. They all agreed the same climate policies. Thanks David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband for turning a critical policy area into a one party state. In an area where the Greens never get more than about 4% of the vote in a general election.

      It will end in tears and it will be the Conservatives that drop this crazy policy. The question is how long will it take?

      Finally, politicians need a face-saving exit strategy from climate policy – we need to think one up.

      • Stuart Brown permalink
        January 31, 2022 8:30 pm

        Make nukes and methane part of the carbon free ‘taxonomy’.

        And coal – as long as 0.1% of the flue gasses are diverted through a greenhouse full of tomatoes. (Actually I’ve always wondered why coal fired power stations aren’t surrounded by GFOT)

      • Julian Flood permalink
        February 1, 2022 1:35 pm

        TS, Search on the-sensible-speech-on-climate-the-pm-will-never-make/ . I can’t give a link, my posts keep disappearing. It’s at TCW.

      • ThinkingScientist permalink
        February 1, 2022 8:10 pm

        Julian Flood: wilco!

      • ThinkingScientist permalink
        February 2, 2022 10:12 am

        HI Julian,

        Read your article – very good,. Absolutely in line with my thoughts.

        Conservative Woman seems to have more common sense than anyone. Is that a lever?

        I still think we need to devise a face-saving formula for politicians so they can step away from the climate nonsense. Analogies with failed covid computer models might be one line of attack. The problem is, for covid computer model predictions (and weather forecasts) the error is obvious within just a few weeks, but for climate models the errors are on 10 – 30 year event horizon and so the modellers get away with it.

  9. Stonyground permalink
    January 31, 2022 3:05 pm

    “He warned it could lead to a “massacre at the ballot box” for the Tories.”

    How exactly? The only alternatives are parties that are even more insane than they are.

    • Realist permalink
      January 31, 2022 4:20 pm

      Way beyond time for a new party that puts an end to the “climate” and “green” madness.

  10. Paul H permalink
    January 31, 2022 3:23 pm

    As I’ve mentioned before on the odd occasion, there isn’t a political party for normal people (like us) to vote for and hasn’t been for many decades. The forlorn hope Nigel will embrace the initiatives of repealing Climate Change and associated legislation is a very long shot. He’s banged on about the Migration Crisis for quite awhile with to discernable effect. For a start, he hasn’t even begun to query the issues involved and with the next election in just over two years, there isn’t in my view, sufficient time to do the rounds of Question Time, Sunday Politics shows and the suchlike to persuade the general public they’ve been had. Another massive obstacle is Academia, where so many lucrative jobs on the subjects are to be found. Those Grifters will fight tooth and nail to hang on, fearing they may have to find proper work. Rather negatively I know, I’ve long concluded the inevitable collapse is the only way sanity could be restored. When we’re kicking stones in the street, the fight back may begin.

    • Gerry, England permalink
      January 31, 2022 5:19 pm

      The usual problem with Farage is that he does not do detail and his ego stopped UKIP evolving into an effective party. He insisted on wasting money chasing seats in general elections as opposed to building up a centre for expertise on the EU funded – ironically – by money brought in by their MEPs. As luck would have it, he scared Call Me Dave enough to force him to promise a referendum, which he could not duck out of once he accidentally won the 2015 election. Farage’s grand idea was always to win the election and take power, which was a bit stupid since UKIP never ever won a seat in a GE. If somebody who does have the knowledge to skewer the likes of the BBC’s indequate woke reporters, then they could sweep up the conservative vote.

      • Phoenix44 permalink
        January 31, 2022 7:01 pm

        UKIP was hugely effective – it got the one thing it was set up to do done.

        It was never going to become a replacement for the Tories. What it did do though was make it very hard for the Tories to ever win with a decent majority.

    • It doesn't add up... permalink
      January 31, 2022 6:27 pm

      The best representation in Parliament at the moment comes from backbench Tories like Baker, Redwood and Mackinlay. You can add in Graham Stringer from Labour. Tice lives in hope that a bunch of breakaway Tories will join him to give him momentum, but I think it unlikely – and in any case he has been quite inadequate on net zero issues. The best form of Tory split is if the greens go off in a huff themselves like some of the Remain Tories did, but again that is unlikely, at least unless there is a split in the Labour party which would fragment the left wing vote and give teh space for a more general political realignment.

      I’ve been briefing Redwood regularly via his blog on key issues, and he is definitely taking notice, quite often devoting blogs to topics I have raised specifically, and probing away at BEIS and DEFRA. The reality is that most of the Tory green drones don’t really have any grasp of the issues at all – they do copy/paste pieces with all the lines to take and ignore any criticisms while they curry favour with Carrie and possible patronage from Boris. They are probably as malleable as that famous Sir Humphrey volte face from “We smile at your proposals” to “Did I say that? I meant we smile on your proposals.” Of course there are some green ultras in government for whom it is a religion. Thy are the ones who must be sidelined – fortunately many of them are all Friends of Carrie, to be isolated when she goes, along with the key quangocrats at CCC, OFGEM and National Grid and within the upper reaches of BEIS and DEFRA.

      • jimlemaistre permalink
        January 31, 2022 6:51 pm

        Some ‘SHARP’ wake up call is what is needed . . . A ‘RUDE’ awakening . . . some ‘Point’ made to which there is no doubt . . . Humans are NOT responsible for climate change . . . Pollution . . . YES ! . . . NOT Climate Change . . . Possibly a massive Volcano like Vesuvius or the Phlegraean Fields fields or Santorini . . . would this do . . . Real Climate Change . . . ??
        Funny how when we talk about the weather . . . we forget to look out our own back door . . . Again . . .

        https://www.academia.edu/49421861/CO2_Cradle_of_Life_on_Planet_Earth

        Volcanoes have caused every cooling period in the last 10,000 years . . . When the skies and the stratosphere clear from the effects of Volcanic Winter the World returns to what I call ‘The Norm of Warm’ . . .

      • Graeme No.3 permalink
        January 31, 2022 8:45 pm

        jim lemaistre:
        I take it you have read Clive Oppenheimer’s Eruptions that shook the World?
        Cambridge UP reprinted 2017

        Time to start a new program: STOP CLIMATE CHANGE – plug all volcanos.

      • jimlemaistre permalink
        January 31, 2022 10:06 pm

        No, but I have been studying Climate Change and it’s link to Volcanoes and Cold Climate Change for over 20 years. I have found the link between Violent Volcanic Eruptions above VEI 6 and almost every cold spike of our Global Climate going back 150,000 years to the only other prolonged Warming Period in the last 250,000 years, the Eemian . . . It averaged 3 degrees warmer than what we are seeing on Earth today.

        History, the Violent History of Planet Earth and it’s Natural Cycles must Never be usurped by environmentalistic pedagogy or Man-Made CO2 . . . Ever !

        We have had 18 periods of warming and cooling to study in just the last 10,000 years. 7,000 years of warming and 3,000 years of cooling. ALL the cooling periods began with a BLAST from a Major Volcano somewhere on Earth. ALL the warming Periods came when the skies had cleared from Volcanic Winter and the Earth returned to what I call ‘The Norm of Warm’. NONE of these warming or cooling periods followed CO2 . . . NONE . . . why NOW is it suddenly the cause? . . . It is NOT the cause! Yes Humans are burning fossil fuels and CO2 is Rising . . . Fact ! But Climate Change as we see it today is the result of NOT having had a major Volcano between the tropics for over 120 years . . .

        https://www.academia.edu/49421861/CO2_Cradle_of_Life_on_Planet_Earth

        And also Pages 33 – 38 . . .

        ://www.academia.edu/45570971/The_Environmentalist_and_The_Neanderthal

        No matter what you may see of hear to the contrary . . .

        Life on Planet Earth is Nature’s Show . . .

        No matter how hard we point to human intervention as being influential

        . . . Nature ALWAYS brings Shock and Awe . . . And, Submission . . .

      • jimlemaistre permalink
        January 31, 2022 10:09 pm

        Oops . . . this missed . . . Pages 33 – 38 . . .

        https://www.academia.edu/45570971/The_Environmentalist_and_The_Neanderthal

    • Rowland P permalink
      January 31, 2022 11:27 pm

      No party vote for by normal people? Try the Heritage Party – check out its Manifesto. I would be surprised if you would disagree with any of it.

  11. January 31, 2022 4:05 pm

    I love the word fanatsy, is that a typo or a new slur word?

    • February 1, 2022 2:21 am

      With a lot of money sloshing around, there must be a temptation to be corrupted, as evidently happens in a notorious UK Committee.

      • jimlemaistre permalink
        February 1, 2022 3:28 am

        This is their Fatal Flaw . . . It was the launch in May 2021 of 255 million tons of U.K. carbon allowances.

        Carbon Credits, also known as Carbon Allowances, work like ‘Permission Slips’ for Excess Pollution. When a company buys a carbon credit, usually from the government, they gain permission to generate one ton of CO2 emissions. With carbon credits, carbon revenue flows vertically from companies to regulators. Companies who end up with ‘Excess Credits’ like Electric Car companies and Wind Farms or Solar Farms can sell them to excess polluters for a profit.

        This will lead to the downfall of the economy . . . $$$$$

  12. Realist permalink
    January 31, 2022 4:19 pm

    At least one newspaper has woken up. This “fuming voters” article needs to be on the front page of all the newspapers.

    In the meantime why don’t the political parties simply merge instead of pretending to be different? How is it possible that ALL of them are so out of touch with the population?

  13. Jordan permalink
    January 31, 2022 5:30 pm

    “There is also overwhelming ­support for a referendum on the Government action to hit its net zero target for harmful emissions.”

    I’m not sure how this can be claimed. Sadly, the two referendums presently running at petitions.gov.uk have ground to a halt:

    “Hold a referendum on whether to keep the 2050 net zero target” = 21,312 signatures
    “Revoke the 2050 net zero target” = 123 signatures

    If revoking NZC cannot rustle up much more than 20k signatures, it’s hard to see how this can be be under any kind of serious challenge from the electorate. The great majority of the voting electorate will choose from the “main alternatives” and NZC will live on … I fear.

  14. ThinkingScientist permalink
    January 31, 2022 5:32 pm

    Having just had a quick look on the Reform Party concerning Energy & Environment policy, its more of the same of the other main LibLabCon parties, slightly watered down with perhaps a slight nod of “not everything is understood about natural factors”. Buts its pretty mild stuff.

    As far as I can see the only way to stop the climate change nonsense is with back bench Conservative MPs. There is a core who consider it lunacy. That core needs to be encouraged to grow. Maybe try and get the Reform Party to take a more hard line climate change view. Something people can vote for to protest is what is needed. That’s what scared the Conservatives into Brexit.

    There will be public pushback, its starting to happen. I always said it will be the Sun wot does it (the Sun newspaper that is, not the sun in the sky affecting climate!).

    • It doesn't add up... permalink
      January 31, 2022 6:29 pm

      I think the return of Dacre to the Mail will be helpful too.

    • Rowland P permalink
      January 31, 2022 11:23 pm

      Best alternative is the Heritage Party which eschews the present climate change narrative. We really all need to get away from voting for the LibConLab dictatorship.

    • Vernon E permalink
      February 1, 2022 11:07 am

      Thinking scientist. There is a lot I agree with in your post. If any fightback is going to happen it will be from within the Tory right wing. Forget Farage (who I personally think very highly of) and Reform Party, and that other new lot. They are irrelevant. MP’s set their policies to get themselves voted in – not for any personal beliefs. At at the moment the electorate is firmly behind net zero with no change visible (except the odd rumbble when pockets are hit). I fear that it will just rumble on downhill until maybee threre is an upheaval from an unknown quarter (and I don’t mean volcanoes!). UN Agenda for Sustainablity has won.

      • Paul H permalink
        February 1, 2022 1:07 pm

        A good summary IMO Vernon. Where I would slightly embellish is to say we have lost across the board, not just the sustainability argument. Every aspect of government is intent on confounding us and making our lives more unbearable.

      • Realist permalink
        February 1, 2022 2:20 pm

        I wonder who they ask for “electorate is firmly behind net zero” or even the “climate” (and other) scaremongering hysterics in general.

      • Vernon E permalink
        February 1, 2022 3:15 pm

        Realist: I don’t know but I wouldn’t bet the farm on the outcome.

  15. Mal Fraser permalink
    January 31, 2022 5:46 pm

    Brexit…… escape a totalitarian regime
    Climate…..welcome to a totalitarian regime
    Migration…EU plan all along to reduce the UK to a pro Europe electorate and thus a totalitarian regime.
    Herd of sheep?, no, lemmings …. Cliffs here we come!
    Foreseen by a Mr Powell I believe.

    • Paul H permalink
      January 31, 2022 9:32 pm

      We’re over the cliff and in freefall, we’re just muttering to ourselves so far so good.

  16. Peter MacFarlane permalink
    January 31, 2022 6:40 pm

    Personally I don’t pay much attention to all this.

    I assume that at some point there will be a climb-down.

    Has to be, really, otherwise some sort of popular explosion will happen. Some government, at some time, will be forced to come to its senses by reality.

    • Phoenix44 permalink
      January 31, 2022 7:04 pm

      I suspect a reckoning will come this November in the US, where Biden and his Green and other policies are leading the Democrats to disaster. If the Republicans can gain significant ground by rejecting Green extremism, we might follow.

  17. Rowland P permalink
    January 31, 2022 11:20 pm

    Good to see reference to the Alliance of British Drivers (ABD). Well worth supporting as it speaks sense for ALL motorists.

    • Realist permalink
      February 1, 2022 4:48 pm

      And what about the RAC and AA? They should have been fighting the anti-car antics from the very start .It still beggars belief that the manufacturers don’t make any protests. Or perhaps the latter want to be spare parts suppliers. The market is not going to buy more expensive and simultaneously less practical EVs.

      • jimlemaistre permalink
        February 1, 2022 6:04 pm

        NOBODY . . . in the corporate world has the BALLS to stand up to or against ‘The Big Green Propaganda Machine’ !!

        Long ago it became clear that you do so at the risk of being ‘Lynched’ in Public Opinion . . . By the Media . . . the Rulers of Green public policy . . .

        Sadly, to date, no self-respecting Media Representative wants to risk the Ire of their Peers or the Mandarins ruling the Environmental Movement or The Purveyors of Globalization in our New Social Construct. For they are ‘Brothers-in-Arms’, so to speak. Who wants to be the ONE to open Pandora’s Box? . . . It would be like pulling Hans Brinker’s finger from the Dyke or Killing the Goose that Lays the Golden Egg . . . The old adage . . .

        There are none so blind as those who will not see . . .

        Change MUST come as a ‘Grass Roots’ movement . . .

        Or . . . Public Policy will never change . . .

      • jimlemaistre permalink
        February 1, 2022 6:16 pm

        I wrote the following paper over 5 years ago . . . the more things evolve, it seems . . . the worse they get . . . Public opinion built by the Media gets harder to confront every day . . .

        https://www.academia.edu/49676862/Social_Engineering_Environmentalism_and_Globalization_A_New_World_Order

        My Thoughts . . .

  18. Dave Andrews permalink
    February 1, 2022 6:39 pm

    How realistic is it that everyone in the UK and elsewhere in the world will switch to EVs by 2030 or even 2050 (Net Zero year) I would suggest it is totally impossible.

    There are currently over 1.4 BILLION ICEVs in the world

    According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) there were 10.2m EVs & BEVs in the world at the end of 2020 almost half of them, 4.5m in China. They expect these numbers to grow to c. 40m by 2030 and possibly 72m by 2040.

    In that same year, 2020, there were 59.9m ICEVs sold in Europe, China and the US alone.

    The IEA in a recent report says that sales of SUVs were resilient throughout the pandemic and grew by over 10% in 2021 to 48% of global car sales and that 98% of SUVs on the road today are ICEVs

    In the UK in 2021 the biggest selling vehicle was the Ford Transit Custom van (53,394 sales) Whilst for the first time the Tesla Model 3 EV came 2nd in car sales (34,783 sales) all the other sales in the top ten were ICEVs whose total sales were 278,005 – 8 times greater.

    EVs require around 6 times more mineral input than an ICEV vastly increasing the amount of mining necessary to produce them. Already the price of lithium is rocketing and there will need to be massive increases in the mining of copper, nickel, manganese, cobalt, graphite and rare earth elements. New mines , according to the IEA, take around 16 years to develop up to full production.

    As far as I can see the ‘everyone will switch to EVs’! mantra is a pipe dream!

    • jimlemaistre permalink
      February 1, 2022 7:00 pm

      You are right . . . but worse . . . is the lies about EV’s . . .

      Truth . . . size for size . . . Electric Cars cause at least 15 % more CO2 for every Mile driven. First The government of the USA stated that when ALL sources are combined including Hydro, Nuclear, Wind, Solar and Bio fuel . . . 0.92 lbs. of CO2 for every KWH of Electricity Produced. Plus, OHM’s law resistance produces Heat . . . 12 % uploading and transmitting plus 16 % charging the Electrons in that lithium-Ion battery that is 28 % from production to having a charged Battery or 1.21 Lbs. per KWH used to drive an Electric Car.

      (PDF) Tesla Versus Toyota Camry | Jim Le Maistre – Academia.edu

      (PDF) Electric Cars Burn 31% More Energy than Gas Cars | Jim Le Maistre – Academia.edu

      Furthermore, All Electricity is Poison to Planet Earth . . . Yes, EVEN renewables . . . Check it out . . .

      (PDF) All Electricity – Poisons Planet Earth | Jim Le Maistre – Academia.edu

      My thoughts

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