Electric Vehicles, ULEZ and 15 minute cities - is this the start of 'Transport Apartheid'???

 

Does Transport Apartheid - start here?

With vehicles cleaner than ever, is justification for the Congestion Charge or ULEZ zones valid?

Heathrow Expansion - ULEZ for vehicles nothing for the Jets

When the Heathrow expansion was mooted the announcement was it 'would be good for business' but not for the local residents with increased air pollution from airlines or local drivers. Why?

Because the wisdom was to make an ULEZ area around the new Heathrow expansion, but not to penalise the airlines creating the real extra pollution.

Jets taking off and pushing out same emissions of the average of 10 years of average car driving use - equalling 75,000 miles in total in just a few minutes from one airliner.

The joke of it is or isn't, is that vehicle drivers around this new Heathrow zone are being penalised with an extra charge on top of the 80% duty included in the cost of fuel, whilst the airlines pay nothing to pollute?

Or perhaps this ULEZ launch is something to divert attention away from dealing with the real issues Londoners want resolved such as the explosion in knife crime? Any answers?

The Electric Vehicle bubble might be soon bursting

The EU 2030 Ban on Petrol and Diesel vehicles is running into trouble, from German car makers and also manufacturers in Italy. People are slowly waking up to the fact that these EV cars are not viable, are expensive to charge and to buy and are being dumped by many owners back onto the used car market, although car dealers don't want them, before the batteries are only useful for a 20 mile round trip.

Only being able to buy EV's after 2030 is a form of transport apartheid and will mean that those unable to pay for these expensive 'hobby horses' may become unable to travel, or is that parts of some agenda?

Mazda for one company has recently introduced a new Diesel car, it can obviously see the future and it is not volts, but Diesel.

15 Minutes of fame or infamy?

The deal is you walk 15 minutes to do all your business and shopping. So what does this achieve? Not much. 

All these policies will achieve is to restrict people's freedoms of movement, this has been known for some years and now we are seeing the reality of what was only being hinted at by people often referred to by some sections of the media as 'conspiracy theorists' - in other words a cheap and throwaway 'catch-all' slur on people who might have a different and correct point of view, as we may be seeing here and now..

Net Zero is not achievable - humans exhale CO2 for one thing so they can never be truly Net Zero, unless China makes great changes and we become less of a consumer society, all this Net Zero baloney is just window dressing and used to justify policies to restrict the freedom we fought two world wars to enjoy and make us much poorer.

No one voted for Net Zero and the media says nothing about why as a less than 1% emissions contributor that has already cut CO2 output by 40% of 1990's levels, why the UK has to be hobbled by these policies whilst others just do nothing?

On the face of it then, there must be some other agenda for hobbling and taxing the ordinary person whilst at the same time not making other major polluters like China and India do more?

This London Sightseeing EV Bus cost around £450,000 -

It is said to be around two years old and is now in a Barnsley Scrapyard.

Tells you all you need to know about this electric vehicle vanity project.

And you thought that Apartheid was only something that happened in Africa?