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Originally Posted by GORDON STREETER
What is going to be the next "thing" that the government is going to say is good/bad for us and then do a U turn ? we've seen all sorts over the years, coffee/sugar/diesel , there must be lots of things and someone makes a lot of money when it happens  |
Probably electric cars, once the batteries start dying and are found to be a huge problem for recycling...
The trick in urban areas is simply to have cheap, fast, efficient and extensive electric powered (trams/underground) public transport so that for people in these areas it becomes inefficient to use cars and then people will naturally move away from them for the short urban journeys which are a problem. Do the same with trains which will cover a lot of other journeys, in particular move freight back to the railways, and then the remaining emissions will stop being significant. Just swapping the current model for a different power source is not going to be a solution in the long run. The same problems will simply recur in a different way.