If the Conservatives are hoping to get re-elected next year they may have to rethink their policy of banning the sale of new petrol- or diesel-powered cars by 2030. Electric cars are proving to be an unmitigated disaster. Indeed, scarcely a day passes without a story appearing in the Telegraph about just how terrible they are – and not just if you want to get from A to B.
For instance, we learnt last week that some electric cars are losing their value twice as quickly as petrol alternatives.
Drivers have been pushed towards electric cars by a string of government initiatives, which are intended to help the country become “net zero” by 2050. However, drivers going green risk losing thousands of pounds more than those who stick with petrol.
Some popular electric models have fallen in price at twice the rate of petrol cars. A driver who bought an electric BMW i3 in 2020 would have paid £39,000 and could sell the car for £13,900 today, a depreciation of 64%.
However, the petrol equivalent has maintained much more of its original value. A new petrol-powered BMW 3 series cost £32,000 on average three years ago but would sell for £22,360 now – a drop of just 30%.
Yesterday brought more bad news.
First, we discovered that thousands of free electric car chargers have been pulled from Britain’s roads over the past year as soaring energy costs makes them unaffordable.
The number of chargers offering free electricity has fallen from 5,715 a year ago to 3,568, a drop of almost 40%.
They now make up less than one in 10 public chargers on Britain’s roads, compared to one in five a year ago.
The drop in free top-up charging spots is the latest blow to the Government’s ambitions to attract motorists to electric cars by making it cheap and convenient to charge them away from home.
Then we learnt that because electric cars can weigh 33% more than wet cars, much of our basic transport infrastructure – such as multi-story car parks and bridges – may well collapse under their additional weight.
Last month, car park experts raised concerns about the ability of some ageing car parks ability to handle the weight as the number of electric vehicles grew.
Russell Simmons, chair of the British Parking Association’s structures group, told The Telegraph that he had carried out inspections of multi-storey car parks in the UK over the last six months which would not have been able to withstand new EV weights.
Electric vehicles are generally heavier than petrol counterparts because of the weight of their batteries, which can weigh around 500kg.
Earlier this year, Jennifer Homendy, the chair of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, found that the best-selling EVs in the U.S. were on average 33% heavier than petrol counterparts.
To summarise, electric car owners have discovered in the past week alone that their cars may lose their value twice as quickly as non-electric vehicles, that free charging points are rapidly disappearing from our roads and if they park their Tesla in a multi-story carpark it might well collapse. Who knew virtue-signalling would prove to be so costly?
You’d have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.
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They sure do seem to want to kill off all the older folks by continually “boosting” them. It might save them from having to increase the pension age.
Ah, is that a solution (albeit rather a final one) to France’s problem of having to raise the pension age from 62?
Nothing to do with excess deaths for under-50s….
Excess deaths for under-50s are much harder to explain away, excess deaths for over-50s can be hidden or ignored or explained away more easily.
It isn’t what they aren’t saying. Its the way they aren’t saying it..
Exactly. These decisions are supposed to be based on risk/benefit analysis. Why don’t they explain what that was, and why don’t they explain why they withdrew the AstraZeneca jab?
‘Why don’t they explain why they withdrew the AstraZeneca jab?’
That is a VERY good point that has been totally ignored by the MSM and the entire political class. Its as if all the razzmatazz around ‘the UK’s covid vaccine’ never happened. Its just been wiped from history entirely. Its never mentioned at all now.
I think its a good angle for us sceptics to take – we need to start asking (very innocently) ‘Why was the AZ vaccine withdrawn?’ at every possible occasion.
Please see my email to Andrew Pollard, Chief Investigator on the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine trials, and Chair of the UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, asking who initiated the plan to vaccinate the entire global population against SARS-CoV-2 when it was already known it wasn’t a serious threat to most people?
My email to Andrew Pollard, sent in June 2021, raises serious questions about the ethics process which approved covid-19 vaccine trials involving healthy people not at risk of covid-19.
It’s time for retrospective critical analysis of how the current global covid-19 jab rollout came to pass…
i think we all have a pretty good idea of some of the reasons behind this, but as I’ve said elsewhere it’s still worth asking why the crooks behaved like crooks. At least they can’t say they weren’t told. The people who did approve this plan should have bullet proof reasons as to why they didn’t give equal weight to independent medical organisations such as the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service (who promoted vitamin C, vitamin D etc. to protect against viral infection), and that conflict of interest was absolutely not a factor. And even if they get that far, there still may be questions to answer.
Because the msm are now as corrupt as the AZ described by Oliver Wright (now working for the Times muppets) in his 2014 Independent piece (see here and here)
Big Pharma lobbyists exploit patients and doctors | The Independent | The Independent
Revealed: Big Pharma’s hidden links to NHS policy, with senior MPs saying medical industry uses ‘wealth to influence government’ | The Independent | The Independent
The COVID-19 vaccination programme continues to reduce severe disease across the population
Read: The so-called COVID-19 vaccination does not protect against severe disease.
while helping to protect the NHS
Against the threat of budget cuts, perhaps? The NHS is supposed to use medication to help people and not to help itself to something.
Beat me to it https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/25/covid-vaccine-booster-jab-nhs-uk-end/
Prof Lim should be awarded the ”Dipshit of the Year” award, as should anybody else falling for this total cobblers in 2023.
“The U.K. will continue to offer the first two doses to over-16s.” Oooh hang on a minute..isn’t that the one that’s based on the original Wuhan strain that has been extinct for 2 years now?
“Hmmm you know what? I’m totally regretting not getting one of those obsolete, ineffective, sudden death-inducing novel technology pretend vaccines. I think I’ll take the plunge this year so I can be protected from a virus that I appear to have survived so far with no problems whatsoever. Why not?” Said no sensible, unvaxxed person ever! :-/
Or I’m really itching to get two doses of something said not to be sufficient for anything ever since autumn 2021! Otherwise, it might not be not protected against severe COVID in the proper way!
BTW, your dipshit is really a compliment. This is not an inept person. It’s someone trying to keep the COVID gravy train rolling with sufficiently limited damages that it can actually keep on rolling for a while. This means this guy is either evil (wants to do bad stuff to people because he wants bad stuff to happen to hem) or a psychopath (doesn’t care what happens to other people provided he’s fine).
Oh I think he’s all of the above. Nobody can plead ignorance at this stage, especially nobody with ”Professor” as their title! He’s complete and utter scum of the earth.
Oops, think I just misgendered Prof Lim, who is apparently female. At least the name “Dipshit” is unisex though…
Spot as usual Mogs , it’s beyond reason that the first two jabs are still being offered, bizarre in fact ! Show us the medical reason health experts ? what’s that ! Oh you can’t!!.. Chunts !!!
And sadly I know someone (81) who will willingly line up for extra jabs this year, despite a rapid decline in health (which could be either age or vaccine related, but who’s to say?), and also a poor soul in a care home with dementia who gets jabbed routinely because he hasn’t got the wherewithall to question it. Last time I saw him his decline had been rapid, but again, no questions will be asked when he dies because, well, old sick people die, don’t they?
Yes the only people who get a caveat for my scathing statement above are the people who are too cognitively impaired to make an informed decision on their own behalf, such as people suffering dementia, learning difficulties or people who are profoundly disabled with no way of communicating effectively. Unfortunately these individuals are completely reliant on their caregivers for their health and welfare. It’s all very crap.
That’s an unfortunate side-effect of modern, urban rot: A family is grand parents, parents and children living in a single house. By the time the grand parents die, the children are old enough to become the parents. That’s how stuff worked not that long ago (150 years, roughly).
NB: I’m no better in this respect, as I’m living 434 miles distant from my parents.
Many, many folk don’t have the critical thinking skills or the backbone in combination to withstand the coercion & pressure following on from the military grade psychological terrorism which the governments have willingly waged on their populace.
What is not known by laypersons is that the ability to understand complex language & complex information declines with age in the normal population. Only relatively (last 20 years) recently known within the SLT profession & great resistance from medics etc to acknowledge this & change the style of information dissemination to their elderly patients. Align this with the also relatively unknown fact that the elderly tend to focus on positive things & ignore negative information, it makes a perfect storm for the older generation to believe all the lies which have been spewed out by the propaganda machinery.
Our governments have been waging a war against us in contravention of the Geneva Convention & the international laws of military engagement.
Sounds like the elephant quietly whispered this in the JCVI members’ ears.
According to Wikipedia, in the last two years. Wei Shen Lim received ‘more than £25001 in research funding from Pfizer’. Not saying he’s corrupted, but is he impartial?
There’s better information available here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20221121201039/https://www.brit-thoracic.org.uk/about-us/committees-and-advisory-groups/clinical-audit-leads/35589/
The text is partially unreadable, but can be gathered from the page source. As of 2022, Wei Shen Lim is in control of
Unrestricted investigator initiated funding for a multi-centre pneumonia study in which WSL is the Chief Investigator.
or, put into other words, for the time being, he is – for all practical purposes – on the Pfizer payroll, has received an undeclared amount of money significantly larger than £25,001, and is essentially free to spend that as he sees fit. And he’s a public servant responsible for expert advice on vaccination in the UK at the same time(!).
I’m not saying that this is a striking example of corrupt official selling the population of the UK down the river because this really speaks for itself.
“Professor Wei Shen Lim, Chair of COVID-19 vaccination on the JCVI, said: “The COVID-19 vaccination programme continues to reduce severe disease across the population, while helping to protect the NHS.”
Just think how much worse the excess deaths and ambulance waiting times would be without the “vaccinations”…
Despite only recently approving this for 5+, going so far as to book them appointments for these injections, just like that, they’re dropped.
IMHO the whole quackcine programme should be STOPPED for all age groups not just the under 50’s
Regarding Alex Berenson’s Substack.
Put the odds of Covid hospitalisation against the odds of adverse reactions….
Question is why they did not drop these vaccines 2 years ago. Or with the benefit of the Pfizer papers did not ever start with these vaccines in the first place.
The Covid Pandemic Hoax. “A story for the ages”
They are slowly, slowly trying to distance the Government from the policy which has killed thousands, massively injured tens of thousands and had adverse effects for hundreds of thousands.
There will never be an admission that the experimental monkey juice is to blame for these. It will all be blamed on lack of access to healthcare “during the Covid emergency” and the evil people who instigated and carried out the policy will get away without any kind of censure.
The EVIL they carried out is so huge, and so many powerful people as well as ordinary healthcare providers are implicated, that they daren’t do otherwise.
Continuing to promote the snake-oil will make defence against murder more difficult – the link between the ‘vaccines’ and people dropping dead wasn’t at first clear – should these evil people ever be put on trial.