Gov announce no new petrol or diesel post 2040

[Midwest]

I don't give a s***t, I'll be 83 by then. At least when I'm sat on the bench, with me bottle shouting at the traffic, the drivers of these electric vehicles, will hear my profanities

 

[StephenRowley]

Its non policy so they can pretend to doing something while doing nothing.

 

[Andy-1960]

I'm gonna get a stocking great diesel generator to charge my clean electric car!!!

 

[PEG]

Stop flapping,you lot,here in Mcr,we invent for fun...by then i'll have a Graphene 4 x 4 electric Patrol...that will do 450 miles just by rubbing two kittens together...

NB: No actual kittens were hurt,during the formation of this analogy.

 

[snowhead]

Kittens???

Bahh, I'll do 1000miles with 2 mice..

 

[JK-Electrical]

I will most likely have long departed this mortal coil by 2040 so am not going to be affected. I'm much more interested in how much the government will bribe me with to scrap my 10 year-old Astravan. I'm not accepting a penny less than two grand. If they offer me a lousy grand as is expected, then I will continue to pollute the Glasgow air until my van dies a natural death.

I do wonder what devious plans the bean counters in the Treasury will devise so to offset the loss of fuel duty revenue which currently nets the robbing bar stewards £27.6 billion per annum.

 

[HandySparks]

If the worst comes to the worst they can just get some massive diesel generators and put them at the end of everyone's roads to cope with peak demand...

Buy Aggreko!

 

[buzzlightyear]

got me one of these order just in case .

 

[Dave OCD]

Buzz for goodness sake stop being so ridiculous, this is the 21st century, I'm ordering one of these.

 

[buzzlightyear]

ok, this might do then.

 

[Dave OCD]

That looks more the sort of thing Tel or Pete would swan around in.

 

[Octopus]

Does this apply to motorcycles?

Yup - remove the engine and hey presto you have a cycle.....................

 

[Octopus]

Probably not worth fixing my van then.

You planning to keep it 22 more years....................

 

[buzzlightyear]

yeah motor

remove the engine and hey presto you have a cycle.....................

yeah, or motor cycle

 

[freddo]

2040?! Hopefully I'll be dead and buried by then...

 

[buzzlightyear]

2040?! Hopefully I'll be dead and buried by then...

me to, unless they clone me to this.

dolly the sheep.

 

[static zap]

me to, unless they clone me to this.View attachment 37551

Best guard you moobs !

 

[sparkdog]

Should be alright with a bit of Waxoyl & WD40.

 

[a-z electrics]

I drive a 100% electric Nissan van... It works for me as I only do local jobs anyway, up to 20 miles away. Apart from low running costs and pollution free, it's 100% tax deductible too
On the Electricity demand side, it's mostly charged overnight at home so cheaper rate used and not much demand on the grid between 1 - 6am..

 

[PEG]

I drive a 100% electric Nissan van... It works for me as I only do local jobs anyway, up to 20 miles away. Apart from low running costs and pollution free, it's 100% tax deductible too
On the Electricity demand side, it's mostly charged overnight at home so cheaper rate used and not much demand on the grid between 1 - 6am..

Cheers for the input,but it is not "pollution free"...not if it has been constructed with processed plastic,metals,paint,glues,fabric,oils and greases,and uses or requires electric charging generated by conventional means. Let us not forget the decommissioning of the several battery packs it should use during it's life cycle...then the vehicle itself....

In truth,the only truly pollution free part,is the travelling done,in between charges...if it does not leak any oil from it's gearbox