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Originally Posted by Colin McKay
Two things spring to mind, neither addressed in the Beeb article (or the thinking that provoked it).
First, the tax on fuel is massive (58p per litre for petrol & diesel in the UK, plus the VAT of course) so it won't be long before a way is devised to add this to the 'cheap' electrickery, how else will we continue to fund the lifestyle of all those redundant oldskool humans?
Second, where is the electricity coming from? It takes many years to plan and build power stations/wind farms/solar farms, and decades for nuclear. Maybe Trump will open up a few more old coal mines, that will keep lots of the above mentioned retirees employed toiling underground.
Progress!
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I believe that the total tax take on road fuels comes to about £30 billion , so they would not easily cover that with anything else .
The price of electricity has been going up a lot , it is not getting cheap , because of the cost of subsidies for wind & solar power which never produce enough to cover their own cost .
Greenpeace tried to claim that the cost of wind energy was coming down , but had to take their adverts down as it was a total lie .
https://order-order.com/2018/01/19/g...e-wind-claims/
And you are right that we cannot produce enough electricity for electric cars , let alone transport .
Max generation capacity for the country is something like 50 odd GWH , which in Winter is not enough for demand & some has to be imported via the interconnectors . Off peak demand [ 11PM to 6 AM ] has about 5 to 10 GWH spare .
To charge up just the private cars in the country , [ using lowest rate home chargers , 3.6 KWH so about 10 miles for 1 hour charge ] , would take a total generation capacity of 130 GWH . And double that if commercials went electric.
So the whole Green Loonie idea that the ICE powered vehicles will soon be finished is just pure fantasy .