Has the folly of the Net Zero crusade cost Conservatives seats? Time to stop pandering to woke minorities with gesture politics

Has the Net Zero folly come back to bit the Conservatives on the arse?

This is the message that the Conservatives ignore at their peril:

'We're fed up with the Net Zero message'

Warren Sheehy: “We all knew the Tories were going to get smashed at these elections - and deservedly so, but I'm loving the fact the Greens are failing too.

“We're fed up with the net zero message, just stop it.”

The real problem is with countries like China and India, not the UK. An overzealous hobbling of Britain by woke activists is destroying Britain.

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?

Germany to outflank EU 2030 petrol and Diesel vehicle Ban - as I have been saying for ages! Wake up Britain!!

 

We are still in love with Petrol and Diesel Vehicles  -

well maybe not the Allegro....

It has now come to pass that the Germans have seen the light well and truly over the scam that wants us to not buy Petrol and Diesel vehicles after 2030 only Electric Vehicles.

Hats off to Porsche, for having developed a 100% Green and 100% Net Zero synthetic Petrol substitute that can be used in modern and old vehicles, the future of older cars and new ones looks much healthier. The Classic Vehicle sector in the UK is worth £18 Billion a year

Germany wants to exempt vehicles that can use 'alternative' fuels to fossil fuels - i.e. synthetic Petrol and Bio / Organic Diesel fuels from the 2030 vehicle sales ban. 

With Mazda recently bringing a new diesel car to market, they obviously realise too that the electric vehicle folly is going to run out of juice.

Wake up Britain! For too long politicians have been going on about 'sustainable air travel' using 'cleaner, synthetic fuels' but not a single word about synthetic fuels for road vehicles. Why??

Yesterday, I drove 20 miles  to work and I counted every vehicle on the road - over 200 and the ratio of Electric Vehicles (all cars) was 1 electric vehicle to 62 Petrol or Diesel vehicles. 

If that is the ratio reflected across the nation, then it is going to be decades before the EV has taken over and that is at this rate that looks unrealistic. Thankfully.

Italy has also rebelled against the EU as it now realises how many jobs will be lost to the electric vehicle folly, talk of Green jobs being created in the wake of the electric vehicle is unproven.

E10 Petrol said to be the equivalent of taking over 300,000 vehicles off the road is rubbish. Take out the illegally re-wilded wild Boar put back into nature that release captured CO2 equivalent to 1 million cars a year and you are making a more positive move and solving a food problem at the same stroke for some years.

E10 fuel is far less efficient with a car losing over 100 miles of range off a tankful compared to E5  fuel.

As we have seen recently, when the wind stops blowing and the sun isn't out as in Winter, the old Coal power stations are brought back on line, better to burn powdered coal than wet biomass which kicks out far more CO2 only tolerated because it is 'renewable' - so is coal , if you plant trees and wait 350 million years for it to convert. Coal was a tree once. We are told not to burn wet wood in stoves, yet it seems ok in Bio Mass plants. That is a wet wood transported by sea at a cost of ten feet to a gallon of Marine oil burnt. Not very green.

Time for Britain to wake up from its usual complacency and start synthetic fuel production soon. It's about time we had people running this country who actually had some professional skill in knowing what they are doing rather than hapless 'seat hopping' amateurs.

Eco morons - what happens in 2030 - are you going to ban the sale of internal combustion engined military vehicles????

 

That will need some battery....

another chapter on the rank folly of Net Zero

I was thinking the other day when Tanks were being discussed, why hasn't one of the Net Zero fundamentalists suggested that Tanks and Military vehicles and equipment (generators, cookers etc) be powered after 2030 by Battery?

Well, its about that damn stupid. I wonder why someone has not proposed or mentioned it?

Give it time.....

As with JCB and the Tractor manufacturers, they can see that the Battery vehicle application is just not going to work with this ridiculous foray.

I don't expect China gives a toss?

Jet Zero - so why not have synthetic fuels for road vehicles? Germany is going down this road and has the rules adjusted to allow it.

 

With the UK government looking to alternative fuels for air travel -

Whey the hell are they not allowing synthetic fuels for other transport use?

The UK government today announced on the hottest day of the year, a plan to convert the airline industry to using non-fossil fuel alternatives including they say fuels made from sewage and vegetable bases. 

However, either they seem to be completely ignoring the obvious need for road, rail and sea vehicles to be able to use synthetic fuels - these do NOT seem to be on the table. 

These fuels are now available and we can make them in the UK. Porsche has with Siemens developed a net zero Petrol alternative that can be used in modern and old cars without adjustment and is now in production. Algae based Diesel alternatives can be made and both of thee fuels could be produced in Britain.

Had these truly 'Green' technologies been embraced a few years ago, then the Ukraine war's impact on fuel prices, availability and inflation / cost of living would not be as serious as they are today. 

We have the ability to produce these fuels and distribute them through the existing fuel station network, not have all the issues of the ridiculous alternative battery vehicles, which only have a use in cities.

The focus by those in charge seems sadly to be on the wrong end of the telescope, forcing the ceasing of the sale (but not the manufacture) of Petrol and Diesel vehicles by 2030, whilst apparently failing to recognise the their pet alternative of battery vehicles are unworkable. This 2030 date is an EU directive and as the UK is no longer in the EU, this can and should be dumped.

The reasons for the eventual failure of the battery vehicle lobby include, firstly that the electric vehicle manufacturers haven't even agreed on a universal charging plug format before they embarked on production  - a schoolboy error of epic proportions perhaps? Its not rocket science. Its a fundamental error.

Recently, a Tesla driver stopped at the motorway services and could not get on a charger for 30 minutes, when he did get charged he had overstayed his 2 hours on the services site and got fined. Or you might turn up at a charging point, but find the wrong plug or the right machine, but not working.

Worse still is the vehicle's operational range problems, hitch up a caravan and try and drive around hilly mid Wales in your EV and you'd be lucky to get a third of the projected range. 

The biggest problem is that the resources for batteries are finite - China holds the monopoly on battery components and manufacturing, the battery car is in its infancy and it gets worse.

A petrol or diesel car with the spares backup can last 20 years, engines are very much cleaner than they ever were too. An electric car lasts about 6-7 years and is half as expensive to buy again - to get the same 20 year vehicle lifespan you have to buy 3 of them and increase the CO2 created in their making by 3 plus times v the old ICE engine alternative. 

The battery car is in most cases just scrap when the battery goes. 

The answer is patently clear. 

For the airline industry we managed ok during coined and the skies were a cleaner place. 

Most commercial aviation is luxury travel abroad, why not just stop it? 

Why fly three or four half empty airlines to the same place the same day? 

Road transport is often essential, for carers, workers and professionals who need to use the roads. Plus our on-line parcels need shipping around. Not to mention our agriculture industry and food deliveries.

Battery vehicles are never going to be in place by 2030, so lets abandon this stupid idea now and create a really sustainable alternative net zero synthetic fuels situation.

The motorist has been a cash cow for decades. We all know it. The classic vehicle industry is worth £18 Billion a year to the Government alone. If it kills this golden goose for one, then it is like losing a year's funding for the MOD being paid in to the Treasury in one hit. This unaffordable.

Germany has now allowed the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles that 'can use other fuels' (other than fossil Petrol or Diesel) - very cleverly, they have sidestepped the EU's 2030 directive - well done Porsche and Siemens - this gives us all hope. Sadly our people in charge have not seen this.

It is also now time to remove the hated and damaging E10 fuel and go back to straight unleaded fuel - the E10 can in some cars mean that the car covers 100 miles LESS than on straight unleaded fuel per tankful. This lunacy is waved through because the E10 is 'Green' partly produced from Bio Alcohol from Sugar Beet or Maize. 

With the Ukraine war, these additives to Petrol and Bio Diesel (vegetable oils) will have to stop. These additives although 'Green' cost the vehicle performance, range and add to the fuel cost. It is high time these 'Green' additions were dropped and the straight fuels reinstated.

The synthetic fuels for non aviation transport are the future and are sustainable and virtually infinite, unlike the electric counterparts.