The cost of running a car has soared by £700 to £2,100 a year in the last three years – a 50% rise – as a result of the Net Zero war on motorists and rising inflation. The Telegraph has more.
There has never been a worse time to own a car, as motorists are “assaulted from all sides” by spiralling costs, analysis shows.
The yearly cost of running a car has soared by £700 to £2,100 in the last three years – a 50% rise – as the Net Zero war on motorists and rising inflation takes its toll.
Households are spending over £500 more a year on insurance than in 2021 and have been hit by substantial hikes in the price of repairs, parking and fuel.
At the same time, low-emission zones have expanded across the country, saddling motorists with additional charges to drive in urban areas.
Edmund King, President of motoring body the AA, said the burden on drivers has never been so high.
He said: “There have been times in the past when certain elements have been more expensive, like fuel. But this is the first time when the cost of motoring as a whole has been so high. It’s an incredibly expensive time to be a driver. They are being assaulted from all sides.”
King added that motorists are getting a “rubbish return on investment” after drivers reported one million potholes on the nation’s roads last year, a post-pandemic high.
“Drivers are paying more but in return they get terrible infrastructure, with roads in a record poor state. It’s a bitter pill to swallow.
“For many millions of people, their car is not a luxury – it’s essential. Many people can’t cut back on driving, and so they cut back on other household expenditure. They buy less food, go out less. It affects their lifestyle quite considerably.”
Worth reading in full.
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Please start asking if the employees at these state funded “charities” are enrolled in the civil service pansion schemes.
The whole point of the “green revolution” is to decrease land efficiency this enriching the like of Charles Windsor. If you splatter farmland in low yielding energy, two things happen. Energy prices and food prices both increase. Land owners despise the industrial revolution as it abruptly ended serfdom and resulted in lower prices. Fundamentally these ppl are disciples of the brain dead Malthus and hate humanity succeeding.
Exactly. Wealth and power is still in the hands of the Crown, Landowners and the Church plus ca change …..
If they are disciples of Malthus, that explains why a push for relaxed controls on euthanasia accompanies these policies.
I think they have been doing that on the quiet for a while now before the Lockdowns. They seem to be pushing DNR orders on anyone that is trusting enough to agree. Then we have PATHWAYS in 2020. I suggest looking on UK Column website for the video. Playing God.
Yes but Charles only owns land in this country. ——-What is the rest of the western worlds excuse?
Here’s a repeat of a note I posted earlier in News Roundup:
National Food Strategy commentary on “Harry’s Farm”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJCrfujVZIk&list=WL&index=6&t=11s
Here is the strategy bumf: https://www.nationalfoodstrategy.org/
Fits the bill with this article.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/bbc-rejoices-as-britain-commits-economic-suicide-in-pursuit-of-net-zero/
Fishy doing a fabulous job of destroying the country. Once Kneel gets on the scene the job will be almost finished.
Also a Labour government taking orders from the WHO with sweeping new powers should worry us all.
Not that people should worry themselves sick, that helps nobody. Reminds me of one of those dodgy criminals in the comedy Bread, one always says, “I’m only doing this so I can make enough to retire to that little cottage”…..I’m dubious about any future these days.
We are given the feeble excuse by the feeble minded planet savers that if you question any of the so called “science” of climate change then you are simply making excuses for or work for “Big Oil” or “Big Coal”. —-These feeble minded easily manipulated dreamers and all the not so feeble minded, who are either part of the political class of pretend to save the planet con artists or the business people that profit from farming all the taxpayer subsidies will tell you that the Fossil Fuel Industry “denies” climate change because they are trying to protect the profits they make from their evil industry, even though the evil industry has lifted two thirds of the world’s population out of abject poverty and given them better health and longer lifespans, a high standard of living that previous generations could only dream of and lots of leisure time. So this evil fossil fuel industry has an “agenda” ——-Incredibly though, so convinced of their own moral superiority are these people that they never even suspect for one second that the GREEN Industry has an agenda. They most certainly do. That agenda is Sustainable Development and its main means of achieving this eco socialist world—–NET ZERO. Where a multi Trillion dollar Industry can only exist if there is a climate emergency, and it matters not a jot if there is not a shred of evidence for one. So who are the con artists then? The fossil fuel Industry that has given us everything we now have so we can sit on our comfy couches in our centrally heated houses with a laptop on our knee or the Green Industry that seeks to take all of that away and have us spending huge chunks of our income on heat pumps and all manner of niche technologies that don’t do what it says on the tin and lowers our standard of living because the UN, WEF and our own complaint lackey politicians want to control the worlds wealth and resources with climate as the excuse?
Also the middle classes who are the most ardent supporters of this have the most to lose.
At the heart of the Man Made Climate Change narrative is the notion of scarcity; we are told that oil is “running out”.
Quite why the Nut Zero Brigade think that BigOil would disrupt this narrative is beyond me.
Scarcity yes, and fear if too many people and not enough resources, but also the other main aspect which is WEALTH. ——-The western world has become prosperous by using fossil fuels, which lifted us from serfdom and misery into having the Industrial Revolution, employment, electricity, freedom from back breaking labour, elimination of preventable diseases, a standard of living previous generations could never have dreamt of and longer lifespans etc etc. ——-At UN level it is deemed the “lifestyles of the affluent middle classes is too high”.
“commentators such as yours truly are merely the PR front for Big Oil…” so says Ben “B.P.” Pile…hmmm