This doesn’t affect me directly as I have worked from home for years, before the COVID outbreak. There are a whole raft of arguments for a four day week working longer hours and little against for the average worker. The…
Climate Change, Politics
Call to cut UK subsidies as Drax power station profits nearly double
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One of the UK’s biggest power stations, Drax has been converted to burn wood pellets that are produced by cutting down trees in Canada, and shipping these across the world in a ship. This is VERY un-environmentally friendly, just so…
Electric Cars
SUVs emit more climate damaging gas than older cars do, study finds
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As I have said on other posts, electric cars need to be big and heavy to get enough batteries to give them the puny range they have. Its a constant battle between weight and range, but extra weight = extra…
Climate Change, Politics
Three Crucial Challenges for Politicians that Nobody is talking about
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I’m very disappointed with our politicians. Its always the same, infighting and self interest come before anything and anyone. Very soon, they are going to have to think about these crucial challenges before its too late for the planet: There…
Electric Cars
Why electric cars are NOT green machines: The environmental benefit of EVs may never be felt
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The environmental benefit of electric cars may never be felt – with their production creating up to 70 per cent more emissions than their petrol equivalent. Electric cars need to be used for tens of thousands of miles before they offset the…
Electric Cars
Electric Cars are becoming Uninsurable
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Electric cars risk becoming effectively uninsurable as analysts struggle to put a price on battery repairs, the researcher for the car insurance industry has said. Jonathan Hewett, chief executive of Thatcham Research, the motor insurers’ automotive research centre, said a…
Climate Change, Electric Cars, Politics
I burn dead dinosaurs, I don’t chop and burn trees
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Climate Change, Electric Cars
How to be Greener than an Electric Car
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Not many of us have £50,000 to spend on an electric car, and a second hand one for now at least won’t be anywhere near affordable for the majority of people if the battery is knackered (£15,000 to replace anyone?).…
Climate Change, Electric Cars, Politics
Self Driving EV’s – Available Now?
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There is a form of self driving electric vehicle, that you don’t get range anxiety with, aren’t just restricted to the few of us that can afford to spend £50,000 on a new car, that poor people should be able…
Uninsured Drivers
More Uninsured Drivers
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Just went from my house to the post office in Padiham, coming back we had a e-motorcycle with a unhelmeted rider wearing a balaclava doing over 30 down the main road through Padiham. A motorcross bike with a helmeted rider…