They are coming for your car. An insurance insider speaks out.
December 6, 2023
By Paul Homewood
h/t Dave Ward
If even a tenth of this is real, it’s a scary prospect:
As Geoff says – “How else could this be used, who are the people that are going to be using it, and do we trust them?”
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Nothing would surprise me, 1984 is now for real, modern day “Televiewers” control our lives. The thought police are now digital, the RFID chip in your head contains a small phial of cyanide, just in case you need to be erased.
Never comply … to any of it.
Government only works if people comply.
“No tyranny can withstand deliberate noncooperation.” — GC
Inevitable. And the revisions to the MOT for anything other than EV/Smart cars will kill everything else.
Hells Bells – I am glad I am an old guy.
… so are they.
Technically feasible.
Politically not feasible.
Will they like it when the public comes for them?
The Uniparty is dead … the sTories are never getting back and Liebour won’t last long either. As for the civil servants and other people pushing this through, they won’t have a good time when politicians who actually serve the electorate get into power.
I’ve been following the lurid and emphatic globalist agenda pronouncements of the EU and UK ‘leaders’ for some time now Paul, and it honestly seems to me as if most of this stuff continues to exist only in their heads.
Sure, these ‘goals’ are going to fill the wallets of thousands of contractors but, like all other government / council projects they will be massively over budget, years behind schedule, fit none of the original requirements, and crash and burn on delivery.
When I look at the sad crap that’s been so poorly (and minimally) delivered so far during the pandemic scam, the climate ‘crisis’ scam, and the illegal immigration scam, I see that parliament and the uncivil service couldn’t organise a party in a brewery.
I take heart in the fact that so many more people are awake now, and they’re all very, very aware that Nobody Rules, if Nobody Obeys.
But Google and Microsoft can and do. This is not UK driven or even EU driven.
Circa 1970, the insurance companies jacked up performance car (Muscle Cars, contemporaneously) rates to unbelievable levels. As much as the cost of the car over 3-4 years. This, along with extreme pollution control regulations, took the fun out of cars. For a generation.
I still wonder if there was government collusion to get them to raise their rates. Can’t ban cars? Get insurance companies to kill them.
Perhaps the most insidious part about this is that the government does not have the resources to micromanage every aspect of our lives. Instead, they’ve deputized the financial community to do their enforcement while using IT companies to collect data on us all. Perhaps if there are changes that need to be made, it should be to break the link between the IT data collection and financial sector enforcement from government influence.
This is the huge problem.
Elon Musk found that government agents were on premise at Twitter. The federal government is forbidden from banning free speech, but they get their agents to get private companies to do their bidding, i. ., block free speech. Yet as bizarre as this is, it is not clear that it is illegal.
The O’Biden regime in America got airlines the military and other”private” organisations to make Chinese Flu injections mandatory as the regime denied responsibility.
So “they” can do as they wish.
My Uncle owned a country place that no one knows about. He said it used to be a farm before the Motor Law.
Rush…. Red Barchetta
Sounds like this song is coming true.
Prophetic
One of Rush’s best and least known songs!
One of my favorites along with ‘Losing it’ and ‘countdown’ the song about the space shuttle launch.. Neil Peart will be watching from somewhere.
Just about on tooic
This 1.2 Million-Mile Tesla Model S Is On Its 14th Motor, Fourth Battery Pack
It’s the highest-mileage Tesla in existence.
https://insideevs.com/news/699413/highest-mileage-tesla-model-s-3-batteries-14-motors/
So a battery lasts longer than a motor. I can find $10,900 to replace the Drive Unit. So $140,000 for 13 DUs. Three replacement batteries $30000. Total $170k, assuming the original counts as number 1.
A well maintained ICE motor will last as long as a battery in this car did around 300k at least. Replacing will be cheaper, especially with a preloved one.
I’ve got a very, very old broom like that.
😂.did you get an award?
Ha Ha!! The infamous ‘Trigger’s Broom’
Theseus asks if it is the same Tesla.
I don’t believe the tyres or brakes lasted that long! I’d be very surprised if the suspension did. So its just the chassis and bodywork. Big deal.
I was surprised that the motor only lasted around 85k miles.
The odometer survived.
Odometer not invented by Tesla
Parts bin?
Volvo with a petrol engine -> 3.2 million miles
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a25165860/irv-gordon-million-mile-volvo-p1800-obituary/
Probably two engine rebuilds, one of which might have been unnecessary
https://www.wired.com/2010/07/irv-gordon-2-8-million-mile-volvo/
Preparing for civil war here!!
Can’t beat an old big volvo. best cars out there.
If people find that their way of life is so pressured by unbearable impositions from what ever source many of the more braver will just side-step and ignore them. This could well ratchet up such that the enforcers and imposed penalties would be unable to cope – the system would seize up. This is the way past civilisations have come to an ignomous end!
The MPs that didn’t bark
7th December 2023
Why didn’t a single Labour MP vote against the Government’s Zero Emission Mandate, when all the evidence shows it will hurt the poorest the most?
According to Parliament, today only 3% of MPs in the House of Commons have any experience of blue-collar work.
. . .
The reason our MP’s — of whichever party — look the same and sound the same is because they are the same. They come from the same segment of society, the same universities, the same professions. And, unsurprisingly, share the same values and beliefs.
https://www.netzerowatch.com/labour-zero-emission-mandate/
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Whoever is in charge when non-EVs become as unaffordable as EVs better be ready for some serious flak.
It’s almost as bad at the technical end of the spectrum.
From this intake of MPs, 103 have a STEMM background or interest. 84 of these are returning MPs and 19 are new to Parliament.
Do many have actual professions other than just ‘politician’?
Potencia Energy wants to install a series of battery storage units, taking up a site area of around 2.37 hectares. Together, these units have potential to store 47MWh of energy.
Potencia Energy’s website says battery storage is the key to unlocking the full potential of renewable energy. Since wind farm energy production is unpredictable, battery units can store the energy and release it back to the grid as needed.
https://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/news/plans-lodged-for-battery-storage-scheme-on-caithness-335122/
I doubt that 47MWh would keep the 24000 citizens of Caithness going, very long at 2.35kWh each
Glen, from that article, given as a quote “The proposal is to deliver a battery storage facility having a maximum storage capacity of 47MW.” Is it a typo emission of the “h” on the end or do they really not know the difference between MW and MWh?
I ask because I genuinely believe it is the latter. Potencia Energy
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC758168
was set up this year with pocket money for shares (£120). The only remaining director, Simon Charles Green, also has 23 other directorships all with nothing substantial behind them and in unassociated businesses. The website given for Potencia is shown as https://www.shadesofgreenla.com which is another of his businesses (landscape gardening) from this website
https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/company/SC758168-potencia-energy-limited
I would suggest he has ridden into Caithness on horseback, clicking his spurs and toting six guns. If planning is passed he will sell on the rights to some foreign owned consortium. Another example of Scottish Mafia activity.
Ray,
I was surprised that MWh appeared anywhere in the article. As you say no journalists, and definitely no PR people know which to use when.
I assumed it had escaped from something technical
Furthermore Glen, this is a map of the connection point.
https://openinframap.org/#13/58.45001/-3.42576
Best be careful exactly how I word this but it could easily be possible for a wind farm to be paid “not to supply” the “grid” hence receive constraint payments but then still sell their generation to this battery store – double bubble! Obviously this battery pack is NOT storage against intermittency it is storage to sell at peak rates form questionably sourced supplies.
Caithness residents should beware.
New documents out today from Government re: Gas Storage.
Role of gas storage and other forms of flexibility in security of supply
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/role-of-gas-storage-and-other-forms-of-flexibility-in-security-of-supply?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=cdd99f2b-715d-40e9-8276-6688616e5d1a&utm_content=daily
Medium range gas supply security assessment: methodology
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/medium-range-gas-supply-security-assessment-methodology?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=70750742-2063-4762-9442-0c5df3bf2a13&utm_content=daily
Hi Paul, Glenartney highlighted this issue above https://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/news/plans-lodged-for-battery-storage-scheme-on-caithness-335122/
Looking at its grid connection point here https://openinframap.org/#13/58.45001/-3.42576
It does look to have the potential to be recharged from wind farms being paid not to supply the grid i.e. in receipt of constraint payments. I believe this issue has been suspected in other articles you have posted though I cannot recall who was making the point. Is it worth referring on?
You are already penalised on insurance by your post code and your age.
My Brother just turned 75 and his car insurance jumped from under £200 to over £600 with quotes over £900 he has to renew his driving licence every year or two
I guess if you put your smart phone plus the right app in your old car it could comply with these regulations.