2030 - No new ICE cars to be sold

Posted on 21/11/2020 14:21 by Rocky 2 buckets

Erm🤔, I will never ask you to pay for anyone’s Power-not even your own🤷🏻‍♂️, it ain’t my concern👍🏻. We will all chip in to pay back the subsidies that have run up massive debts, it’s how it should be. We take out we put in-it’s a Hamster wheel that never ceases.

Posted on 21/11/2020 14:25 by Rocky 2 buckets

Whereas oil & gas extraction is guilt free, not dangerous & positively good for the environment. . .Mmmm, or do I remember a little something about climate & Glodal destruction🙄

Posted on 21/11/2020 15:16 by Rufs

Never said that oil & gas extraction was guilt free, and having worked in the oil and gas sector for 14 years before I retired I am fully aware of  the effects on the climate extraction can be, my concern was

"the conditions in the Cobalt mining industry are appalling with children as young as 10 being used in terrible working conditions. "

Yes I know of horror stories in the oil and gas sector particularly in areas such as the Gold Coast and Campos Basin offshore Brazil, but that does not mean that what is happening in DRC is somehow ok!

Posted on 21/11/2020 15:06 by Compo

With regard to ICE cars. I think someone may have already suggested that if and when we reach 2030 and if the government continue with the prohibition of the sale of new ICE cars and vans it may well be that the value of second hand ones will increase rather than decrease. If someone can't buy a new one and they are determined to still use one, the only alternative is to either keep what they have or buy second hand. It will be interesting to see what happens.

Posted on 21/11/2020 16:14 by JVB66

I am thinking of installing a diesel tank in the garage before HMG increase the duty to eye watering levels to get ICE diesel cars for personal use of the roads

Posted on 21/11/2020 13:15 by Rufs

Our local LA in the guise of a "housing trust?about 10years ago fitted solar panels to some of their stock, and some owners used the same company to have them installed, it seems they are on a 25yr contract with it seems , an off shoot of one of the big energy companies who "subsidised?" them

this was a rip off scheme whereby a company would buy your feed in tarriff contract that you have with the government.

So they offered you a fixed sum for the contract/solar panels, which they took control of and of course all the monies you would have gotten back yourself from the feed in tarriff contract for the life of the contract.

In in some cases they were only offering £5k cash for something that could be worth £20k over the life of the contract, and it also caused problems if you wanted to sell your house before the contract expires, because this company now owns your solar panels on your roof and would be getting all the money from the feed in tarriff, nightmare scenario.

Posted on 21/11/2020 16:28 by Oscarmax

I cant understand what you are worrying about, Boris and his side kick  are looking into toll road charges plus all the clean air zones, we will all have to catch a bus.