Car makers are rationing sales of petrol and hybrid vehicles in Britain to avoid hefty Net Zero fines, according to one of the country’s biggest dealership chains. The Telegraph has the story.
Robert Forrester, Chief Executive of Vertu Motors, said manufacturers were delaying deliveries of cars until next year amid fears they will otherwise breach quotas set for them by the Government.
This means someone ordering a car today at some dealerships will not receive it until February, he said.
At the same time, Mr. Forrester warned manufacturers and dealers were grappling with a glut of more expensive electric vehicles (EVs) that are “not easily finding homes”.
He said: “In some franchises there’s a restriction on supply of petrol cars and hybrid cars, which is actually where the demand is.
“It’s almost as if we can’t supply the cars that people want, but we’ve got plenty of the cars that maybe they don’t want.
“They [manufacturers] are trying to avoid the fines. So they’re constraining the ability for us to supply petrol cars in order to try and keep to the Government targets.”
The Chief Executive blamed the zero emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate, which requires at least 22% of cars sold by manufacturers to be electric from this year.
This target will gradually rise each year before reaching 80% in 2030, with manufacturers made to pay £15,000 for every petrol car that exceeds their quota – unless they have so-called carbon credits to spend.
But the scheme has prompted stark warnings from bosses at major brands, such as Vauxhall owner Stellantis and Ford, which have said they cannot sacrifice profits by selling EVs at large discounts indefinitely.
Instead, they have previously warned they may be forced to restrict petrol car supplies to artificially boost their ZEV mandate performance.
The warning from Vertu is the first confirmation that carmakers have now begun doing so….
Mr. Forrester said: “What the Government’s actually doing is constraining the new car market, which has a big impact on VAT receipts for them, and creates a business environment in the U.K. where manufacturers may question whether they want to make cars here.
“As Carlos Tavares [chief executive of Stellantis] has said, why should they sell cars at a loss because of U.K. Government policy?
“The new car market is no longer a market, unfortunately. It’s a state-imposed supply chain.”
Worth reading in full.
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Gen 12.3.
Obadiah 15.
Zech 12.3.
Maker’s Handbook.
Definitely.
Good riddance.
Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
I can’t imagine how it must be for girls and women in Iran to run the gauntlet every time they leave the house without wearing that universal cloth symbol of subjugation: the dreaded hijab. They are even using drones now in parts of Iran to seek out women who dare to walk freely and unrestricted. So many videos online of females being accosted on the streets by these horrendous, evil ghouls ( many of the ‘morality police’ are female and just require a broomstick or scythe to complete the Halloween outfit ) then bundled into a van and taken away. I remember after the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protests it was reported that the revolutionary guards were instructed to shoot at the people’s faces, so many civilians fighting for their human rights, and those of their daughters, wives and sisters were blinded as a result. Very courageous people, risking being imprisoned, tortured and executed, which happens regularly under this atrocious Islamic regime. We need these evil bastards who are in charge and sit on the Death Commission to take more helicopter rides ( 2mins );
https://x.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1791499687305916485
“They are even using drones now in parts of Iran to seek out women who dare to walk freely and unrestricted.”
Something they learned from the West? Our governments don’t discriminate though: anyone who dared to walk freely and unrestricted was sought out.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-52055201
https://pure.strath.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/133820793/Schippers_TheConversation_2020_Coronavirus_drones_used_to_enforce_lockdown.pdf
Women pilots. Tut.
Don’t write any conspiracy theories here, sceptics. Comments will get turned off 😉
PS I am sure this has nothing to do with Mossad.
A pity it wasn’t a Chinook full.
I’ve said for a long time, that if you took the most powerful 1000 people on Earth and fired them into the sun (or put them all into a dodgy helicopter flying through fog), humanity would suddenly become a happier place to be. That’s two down…
Euro post correct
Now who could possibly have organised an unfortunate “accident” like this?
I guess it must have been that evil Putin.
If the US is itching for a nuclear war, they have possibly just shot the first “bullet”.
iran and its allies will not sit quietly while their leaders are being assassinated, who can blame them.
Biden just gave them several Billion Dollars , maybe they forgot to thank him .
Why on earth would anyone be ‘itching for a nuclear war’?
That makes no sense.
The (very old) helicopter had a ‘hard landing’ in harsh weather conditions and heavy fog, as can plainly be seen from footage of the rescue parties at the crash site.
Resident Biden will no doubt blame Trump or Climate Change…….drum roll…..
President Raisi has achieved the rank of Martyr.
Maybe that’s why so many Iranians are celebrating his demise?
Iranians CELEBRATE the death of President Raisi with fireworks while victims of his torturous regime and their loved ones dance and drink a toast to his fatal helicopter crash | Daily Mail Online
“Raisi quickly worked his way to the top – and in doing so earned himself the moniker ‘the Butcher of Tehran’.
As deputy prosecutor and subsequently chief prosecutor, Raisi stood on the so-called ‘death committee’ – a group of four judges who presided over tribunals in 1988 that were assembled to ‘re-try’ the regime’s political prisoners.
Thousands of these prisoners were ruthlessly executed and dumped in unmarked graves. The exact number of deaths is not known but rights groups estimate roughly 5,000 people were killed following Raisi’s brutal judgement.”
Moment Iranian woman blinded by ‘morality police’ smiles & dances after president’s death as cops crush protest parties | The Irish Sun (thesun.ie)
“Women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad wrote on X that the helicopter crash was “the only crash in history where everyone is worried if someone survived”.”
What I don’t understand is why “The Butcher of Tehran” could get away with slaughtering 5000 Muslims and dumping them in mass graves, without being captured, dragged to The Hague as an international criminal, and imprisoned for the rest of his life.
You know, like the Serb leaders were, and still are, for allegedly slaughtering 8000 Muslims.