In the news this past week has been a lot of talk of net-zero emissions and new targets in place for the UK. Here, we’re going to go over what these mean, mainly for forecourts and motoring, and look at what life in 2050 could look like.
There looks to be a lot of change that could potentially happen, but a lot of this is still speculation and no official word has been given on where the cuts, money and change will stem from.
What has been announced?
Theresa May, in the days before she is no longer prime minister, announced that the UK will now aim for net-zero carbon emissions for 2050. Previously the target was to reduce by 80% by 2050 in 2008 but this will now be updated to reflect the new target.
For the first time young people, although it is unknown what age they will be, will be on a panel to contribute to the new climate change goals. A vast proportion of the Extinction Rebellion protests have been led by young people, and some school children even left school to go and protest in London for one day.
The Committee on Climate Change put forward a proposal to encourage the UK to increase it’s carbon emissions targets to make them net-zero by 2050. It recommended that Wales, due to the importance of farming on its rural communities, reduce it by 95% by 2050, but the Welsh Government have decided to join England and Scotland and aim for net-zero by 2050.
What does net-zero mean?
Net-zero means that while some CO₂ will still be produced it will be cancelled out in other ways, whether that be through planting trees, storing it underground or using carbon credits.
Things like farming and some production currently cannot be zero carbon emissions, and we can’t stop animals from producing carbon dioxide.
Life in 2050; what could it look like?
First of all, there will be a lot more trees. It is predicted that at the current rate of carbon emissions we’ll need to plant football fields worth of trees every day in order to hit the net-zero target.
Clean power generation needs to quadruple by 2050 in order to power the increased demand on the grid from the number of electric cars. Hopefully, by then, most people are using alternatively fuelled vehicles such as EVs, hydrogen or perhaps there will be a new fuel. Petrol stations will most likely become charging hubs with restaurants and a wider choice of food at the forecourts.
There’ll be less meat on our plates, especially red meats and much less processed food and supermarkets will be plastic free and much more economical.
At home, all lights will be LED and we’ll all be using clean energy, there will be no natural gas-powered homes left. The government wants to insulate all homes by 2050 to make them as energy efficient as possible, although some are unsure as to how this will be met.
Who’s paying for all this?
The new change to 2050 is expected to be not much more than the initial cost expected which was 1-2% of the UK’s GDP. Philip Hammond estimated a cost of £1 trillion by 2050, but is there a cost attached to keeping the planet alive? Sir David Attenborough has warned of irreversible damage caused if we keep going at the rate we are.
It may seem like you can’t do much but there are small things you can do: re-using old plastic bags and not using bin bags if you can help it. Switching to bars of soap rather than using liquid soap from a plastic tub. Correctly recycling everything and find a plastic recycling centre nearby. Walk shorter journeys, or consider using a bicycle if you are able. Journey share where possible and consider making your next car a hybrid or electric.
What do you think of the changes? What do you think of the stricter targets? Let us know below
So, the likely end of the internal combustion engine and gas central hearing. Terrific.
Of course, this is all “politico-speak” – and we know how good our politicians are at fulfilling the promises they make! 🙂
Exactly. Notice the fulfillment date of their proclaimed intentions are not 2 or 5 years away; they are 30 years away.
Accountability/liability?
Well pointed out, each party, both the one who proclaimed it and the one unlucky to have to implement it can point the finger not only at the other one but also everybody who came between them.
The IC engine in its present form could use Hydrogen, the production of which (if reports on US Army developments are true) could be produced in much greater quantities not involving 2 electrical terminals in a glass of water – school physics/chemistry ‘speak’. No need for expensive catalysts and other expensive and resource demanding emission control junk.
BMW had cars running in this form when I was with them in 1999/2000.
So where is all the replacement electricity going to come from. We are already only just able to supply our current electricity needs and so this dumping of oil and gas means we should be building a number of neuclear power stations NOW. May and her vanity are leaving the future governments with an almost poison but certainly very expensive pill. Meanwhile Russia continues laying a massive undersea gas pipeline directly to Germany and the EU. Clearly no rush to ban using cheap energy here….
It does look like a major shift is upon us and so far people appear to think/hope technology will save us without any pain.
Looking after the environment properly is overdue but to meet these targets surely major population reductions are needed because people are consumers. I think only a minority of activists realise this and have made the choice not to reproduce. Wait and see where this leads…
Perhaps another world War, nothing reduces population like war….. Certainly seem to be ratchetting the rhetoric in the Middle East…
Trouble with that is, wars create a baby boom. Rather than reduce population, they increase them!
Well that’s probably true. We can’t leave it to nature can we?
AIDS had a go, but that’s no longer a death sentence. Ebola came back for more and we shut that down. So that leaves war, famine or pestilence. Maybe the locusts could do us in…
SMG, agenda 2030 and agenda 2050 will take care of the population issue.
Regarding the reproducing aspect as you mention above we will end up surely as in the Idiocracy film 🙂 and is not going to be Smart 🙂 or a laughing matter.
50% of emissions are caused by 10% of the world’s population. That is us in the UK and the other developed nations (Canada, the USA and Australia being the worst culprits). If we all had an energy consumption of the average African or even a Chinese person, keeping to 1.5° would be easy. So no, overpopulation is not the problem, profligate use of energy by ourselves is. We must fix our own house, not blame it on the size of others.
So I produce more pollution than 10 Chinese people? Rubbish.
Actually 90% and not 50%, you have to now include China too…
I think all these environmentalist protesters should perhaps go and live with the polar bears on an island where there is no food, heating, light, shelter etc, and live in the happy utopia they want.
Nah, couldn’t have a war or defend ourselves. Environmentalists would go mad because of the pollution.
A new tax on babies.
Jet planes produce the most emissions (75 tons per 1500 miles) and with the new runways being planed around London there’s going to be a whirlpool of these nasty gases spinning around. So are planes to be banned or covered up by the words, they only expell Water Vapour.
No they won’t be banned – the likes of you and I will pick up the carbon tab by being forced to drive miserable electric peasant mobiles whilst the big corporations continue to harvest the profits resulting from abundant air travel.
Yes, aircraft emit about the same CO2 per person per mile as a car. When you board a jumbo jet they load a tonne (1000L) of fuel just for you.
This is all fake non scientific scare mongering, just show me one, pier reviewed scientific paper (by a proper scientist) that confirms that man made Co2 is the driver of all this nonsense about climate change/global warming, sea level rise and ice melting etc etc. Please tell me, because I can’t find even one.
You haven’t looked very hard if you believe that man-made CO2 causing climate change is fake news. Try this for starteres https://science.sciencemag.org/content/306/5702/1686
An artricle from 2005? not long after some oink at the UK stood up and told us that the Seychelles will within a couple of years disappear under water? Has it happened? nope! Bangladesh would have to relocate 50% of its population due to flooding.. has it happened? Nope… All the glaciers in the Himalayas would be gone by 2009.. Has it happened? Nope….
Keep crying wolf.. the governments are stupid enough to keep throwing money at anything painted green… but its not their money so why should they worry.
Exactly Trickcyclist. Just like all the drivel that came from Al Gore years ago. Climate change and Carbon Credits are nothing more than a money making exercise for those in power. BTW Who exactly do we pay for these Carbon Credits, and what happens to the money?
There’s always been pollution of some sort, but the earth survived. We’ve had an ice age, volcanic eruptions that caused sulphur emissions and ash the polluted the atmosphere millions of years ago, which can’t surely be blamed on man, so we can’t always take all of the blame. Remember, people bang on about petrol cars polluting, yet more often than not, a car is parked up 90% of the time, which means it’s less polluting than many other pollution sources. ,
Does it matter if it’s man-made or not? A lot of it isn’t and there has been climate change ever since there was a climate (4 billion years or so) but the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere is a major problem for and if humankind can reduce our contribution then it can only help.
And I think you mean peer-reviewed. By one’s peers. Not by seaside promenades.
1/ There has been much higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere in this current interglacial period(Holocene).
2/ The temperature has also been much higher in this current interglacial(medieval warm period, Roman warm period and many more even warmer periods going back to the Younger Dryas event just after the end of the last glaciation period).
3/ More CO2 is not a problem. Below 150ppm plant life dies, no food for anyone. Current level is 415ppm. Its been much higher in the past but increases after temp rise. Not as depicted in the fake IPCC ‘hockey stick’ graph. CO2 is plant food and plants grow better with more CO2 – more food to feed people.
4/ See my previous post on atmospheric composition.
Steady on, cant start throwing real science about might upset the unicorn dreamers, cant have truths banded about upsetting the new religious zealots of global warming
Have to agree!
The ICCP has been shown to be scam, all those so called peer review papers are anything but, still it gives the indoctrinated kids a sense of purpose and they are useful tools for the bankster scam merchants to make more money.
200,000 years ago there was a major period of global warming, when the ice packs melted and sea levels were much, much higher than today and there were tropical forests in Greenland – driven by very high CO2. But those climate shifts took thousands of years. The earth’s climate is shifting 80x faster right now.
Technically, we’re actually in an ice age, so far as Earth’s historical temperature fluctuations go. So, it’s not surprising that temperatures will rise towards the average norm. That said, our civilization and the world’s political borders/economy rely upon staying near the current planetary temperature, sea level, etc. , so we should be worried about how we cope with the inevitable future temperature changes, whether up or down.
I think you mean PEER reviewed. With your level of ignorance, you should perhaps jump off a PIER!
They do exist actually. My brother is a glacialologist but as ever is the case, his arguments won’t make big news and therefore not much media exposure. He has been to both Poles and been near enough a polar bear . I don’t think “environmentalists” as a label is a good one. Selfishness is one of the big issues here. Changing small habits makes big differences & they don’t take long to establish.
Meanwhile in China, India and the USA……
And on a different point all the increased wattage from electricity flowing to these clean device………will probably blow-up the mains cable in my street !
That’s right – leave it to The Others. (It wasn’t just me, sir. They were doing it too!)
We never voted in the Green party but somehow environmental zealots are having their way with us. Yes of course certain things make sense, like increasing the minimum guarantee period on manufactured goods in order to force manufacurers to use better components so things last longer, in order to help move us away from the wasteful disposable society that still seems to be alive & well despite all the environmental imperatives that we hear. The problem is that the environment has become like a religion, where belief trumps common sense. At the moment we barely produce enough electricity for our needs & if all fossil fuel generatuion is closed down then we have a problem before even thinking about heating all our houses using electicity & running all our cars on electricity. Even if the grid can cope with all the extra demand, either the price of electrcity will go through the roof to curtail demand and/or we will all be rationed. Remember those smart meters that allow monitoring of our usage? Once we all have smart meters, it will be easy to cut off anyone using more than their allowance of electricity. Nuclear isn’t the answer for many reasons from cost of building to environmental concerns & radiation does kill, CO2 does not. Most genuine environmentalists are against nuclear generation. The national curriculum in schools now has an environmental theme woven through most subjects, is it any wonder that we have produced a generation of environmental zealots? It is not that the young somehow know better, it is that they have been given a new religion to believe in.
…And the irony of these young environmental zealots is that they see nothing wrong with buying and disposing of smart phones every year or two, along with all the nasty chemicals that make up their PCBs, displays, and batteries.
Or flying thousands if miles in a polluting plane to attend rallies to protest about pollution.
Emma Thompson. Protests about climate change, then flies back to New York, first class.
In the first week of May this year the grid didn’t use any power generated by coal. ( coal stations would have been would have been subsidised to run at standby sped)
If we all go electric our infrastructure would melt.
Think of it all the cars on one road charging overnight, the nearest transformer would blow, the cables under the ground would melt.
In the cold the efficiency of those batteries halves. i.e. 5 degrees out you have just lost 60miles from your battery in your 100miles range. What you say get a TESLA that has 300miles. I say give me £90k and I will get a TESLA else the rest of us have to get a Nisan Leif for £25K…..
Its all pie in the sky as our power stations can not produce that much electricity to charge every car. How are they going to replace the fuel revenue? Oh yes that’s what those smart electricity meters are for, They will recognise when your charging a car and increase/ add a tax for fuel…. cleaver sneekey goverment….lol
Never worry about underground cables- all of us in terrace houses (or Townhouses for the posh) will have cables running out over the pavement- so will be kept cool! What’s that- you tripped!?! Keep your eyes open you fool!
If we had not chopped down most of the rain forest we probably would not need to be introducing half the measures proposed. Funny how the young ‘zealots’ preach how we should reduce our emissions while using far more electronic devices (which require a lot of energy) and consuming far more products than the older generation ever have.
‘our’ generation had re-usable beer, soft drink & milk bottles – delivered in green electric vehicles, the new ‘green’ generation buy water in plastic bottles by the billion – producing huge pollution & waste across the planet – yet lecture ‘us’ about how we should be ‘green’
How brainwashed the young generation have become – all by the media & corporations trying to sell them even more products they don’t really need.
Young people have always wanted some issue to campaign about. Whether it’s CND or the climate. Hopefully, they’ll grow out of it.
No point changing to hybrid in the larger car classes to ‘do your bit’ at the moment. Most will cover less than 30 miles on pure electric power and do little more than 30-35 mpg. I imagine they are primarily bought to avoid vehicle tax (yes, it is now officially a tax and not a license) and other costs such as ULEZs and the like. Better to keep an old car for as long as possible avoiding the horrendous cost to the environment of building all these new plastic-laden vehicles!
A friend in a Lexus hybrid and me in an XE diesel did same return journey to Haverfordwest from Oxfordshire- similar loads – Lexus c.a. 45mpg, Jag ca. 56 mpg.
The UK is just a pimple on the dogs backside when it comes to climate change,
Until, USA, China, India, Russia the rest of the EU are on board with the same targets whatever the UK do will make minimal difference globally.
Just politicians trying to be global leaders by showing an example to the rest of the world (who are having a laugh) at the expense of UK taxpayers…
lets consider some figures; 2% of the atmosphere is classed as ‘greenhouse gases’; of this 2% only 3.6% is CO2; of this previous 3.6% only 3.4% is caused by mans activity and 96.6% is natural(volcanoes, forest fires, wild animals and a large portion by insects etc). Of the previous 3.4% caused by mans activity ONLY 1.2% OF THAT IS CAUSED BY THE UK. So, if we disappeared overnight it would make no difference! Its such an incredibly small amount of CO2 caused by mans activity in comparison to nature and the UK’s contribution is minute it is economical insanity to financially cripple ourselves like this. This all hinges on whether you believe that CO2 drives the climate, I don’t! But, there is money, lots and lots and lots of money to be made by people out of pushing this agenda. If there was no money to be made the ‘climate change caused by man’ religion would die out in no time flat.
The real problem is more humans than planet Earth can sustainably support.
What is really needed is a major cull of the world’s population, say reducing it to to a quarter of present levels.
But what politician will have the balls to say Tthis?
Are you volunteering to be amongst the first?? A couple of links to confirm that others are working to achieve your suggestion.
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all very well until it’s everybody called al for the chop then it wont be if somebody dare say it you will need to worry about
Everyone on this site seems to act as though they are a 1960’s Top Gear presenter. Get real, folks. The times they are a-changing.
If you think I’m going to give up stake and meat think again
Will that stake pass through your own meat?
When we all change to electric cars where do all the car charging batteries go when they are obsolete ? Their life I believe is 5 years
Apparently this Prius has done 700,000km over 11 years on its original battery
https://www.carlist.my/news/meet-bob-and-his-700000-km-toyota-prius/18808/
it is a hybrid not all electric
Think about resource extraction for the batteries and the child labour for Cobslt Janine. Volkswagen trying to clean their slate after Dieselgate are buying battery supplies as if going out of fashion. Certain resonance in all this.
There’s not enough copper, lithium and other rare minerals to create sufficient batteries for the new generations of electric cars/lorries/vans +++ Those countries which do have these reserves – D.R. Congo and certain East European nations do have these reserves – and obviously is times of demand, prices will rise exponentially. Wonderful idea to be ZERO polluter ( All of our 1% of the world’s total ) but a dose of realism and practicality wouldn’t go amiss.
quote – “For the first time young people, although it is unknown what age they will be, will be on a panel to contribute to the new climate change goals.”
Would you tell the youngsters around here that they shouldn’t throw waste cans, bottles, plastic and their dogs poo into my and my neighbours gardens when they pass. (We have a public right of way beside us) I have photos of them, so know they are tweenagers and early twenties. That would help as they do it in the town too. I thought they were the generation shouting for us to help the environment. We were the generation who had “real” recycling, but will they learn from us – No! because we know nothing! Angry you bet! I would like to live in an environment we grew up in and looked after believe it or not. I’ll be way gone by the time everything happens, IF it happens, maybe a few countries will too. Same as Brexit – all talk!
It should be obvious that the big problem with this is population growth. We have limited space for housing, growing food and planting trees. Rising population means we need to grow or import more food, and build more houses, It also means more traffic, more energy generation and more consumption and infrastructure of every kind. The targets will be impossible to achieve without population control. Unfortunately politicians are too stupid to realize this, and the PC brigade will continue to bleat about climate change while refusing to accept controls on immigration.
LEDs, they’re a game changer. Just about as efficient as CFLs (that I have had in my house for over thirty years), so no change there then, except they come on quicker. Always used bars of soap as the liquid has chemicals in that give people contact dermatitis. How much more can we insulate our houses? I’ve got the eleven inches in the loft, cavity wall and plastic framed double glazed windows. Had coal fired boiler but changed to oil and then a wood burner(which was good for the planet) but none are good enough! Could have solar panels but my roof faces the wrong way and a windmill but the B&Q 1200 quid one was a net energy user. They’ll have to come up with something new.
All al load of brainwashing nonsense. We currently producing less co2 and levels are the lowest since 1890.
First it was co2 car manufacture reduced theses and now they blame no2.
We are such a small island with few people in comparison to the likes of China and India who have no care for the environment.
India dispose of all there waste into the river which goes into the sea.
I watch a programme the other night on plastic in the air. 2 billion particles in the square mile of London. What’s anyone going to do about general washing of clothes etc.
Climate change is a hoax. Climate CONTROL is real. CO2 is necessary for plant life and trees convert it to Oxygen. But thousands of trees have been wiped out by you know who, plus HS2 and 5G.
Theresa May, Look at the mess she left! Wasted 3 years, but worry not a commity of say 13,14,15,16,17,18 yearolds will sort out all our (UK) climate problems, CO2 producing issues, all 1.3% of it. Then move swiftly on to INDIA, RUSSIA CHINA USA etc etc and do the same for them, all by 2025. Cannot wait to see this happen!!!
As they fly throughout the world on holidays, Gap Year trips /using their Green mobile phones ,Drinking from their plastic bottles driven on by the ever expanding Social Media consuming, consuming the latest must have.
We are a laughing stock throughout the world and in desperate need of a leader with sanity and the balls to stand up to the bu****t before it’s too late.
I hope we manage it but the costs are prohibitive. Changing all gas central heating to electric means in lots of cases houses having to be gutted and totally remodeled taking months with the home owners having to move out. Our old housing stock is very difficult to insulate to modern best standards so will a high proportion of older homes have to be demolished and rebuilt. Who pays? All vehicles to be electric, some the existing charging type others hydrogen fuel cell which should come down in price. But is scraping old cars environmentally friendly, isn’t most CO2 caused during manufacture.
Impossible to achieve, there is not enough materials to make batteries in the UK let alone the rest of the world. Also it will be so cold within a few years, it will be forgotten about.
It might be necessary but how are older people and others on fixed income, especially those living in the country, supposed to finance new electric cars? There are no buses or other transport where I live and people like me could be totally isolated without a car. I am sure that others prices will rise dramatically raising the cost of living for those who can least afford it. I suppose we oldies could be kind and die off to keep the radicals happy.
The target of 2050 seems unrealistic. Manufacturing of electric vehicle’s is not up to standard,for trucks& trains that transport food to our shops to sell,the cost involved will be inormous meaning food prices will go through the roof it’s a knock on. Effect. Then also only having electric to rely on as a power source is just holding everyone to Ransome … They can charge what they want because you can’t survive without electricity but wages won’t be going up to match the prices of the only source of power for life electricity…. Bring back steam.
Just coincidence that poorer owners of older cars are being forced off the road. Absolutely nothing to do with governments wanting to reduce car ownership, so they and their fat cat chums aren’t inconvenienced by us peasants. Oh for the halcyon days when only the wealthy owned cars, enjoying the freedom of the open road.
Going electric means being held to ransom by China. We’re currently held to ransom by the Middle East oil producers, but they fight amongst each-other. China won’t. And China is the only place in the world where it is economically viable to source the rare earths that are essential for manufacturing electric car batteries. Even though pollution must be tackled, we’d be extremely naive to enter into a policy where we’re totally reliant on any single country (especially China!) to fuel our transport needs.
All well and good, so long as the government focuses upon the sources of pollution by percentage. Petrol and diesel cars are well down the list compared with air-conditioning and highly polluting commercial/office/shop heating, especially in those so-called “low emissions zones”, where only the motorist is targeted.
It’s getting to the point where we’ll all need special SatNavs with Emmissions Zone Avoidance, in order to drive without daily fines.
So will the rest of the World play by the same rules. I don’t think so.
GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX AI,ED TO MILK US MORE IN UNJUSTIFIED TAXES
What makes me laugh is they come out with all the hype, yet councils are removing trees to make way for cycle lanes.
it will never happen to much pressure puting put by big buness not go down that road, housebuilding could be change but builder will not change they it cost to much no money in it. if goverment wanted it does now by law and new things sold some zero co2 now but they will not too much head in sand with lever the eu
Maybe all the enthusiastic doomsayers should try not to breathe out that would save a lot of hot air and c02
It means nothing if the USA, China,etc don’t comply
Maybe David Attenbourgh ought to spend more time in the real world than prancing around jungles and glaciers to see how most of us have to get bye.
Solar Flares knock out electric grids. We’re overdue an enormous solar flare, which has the potential to knock out the National Grid, the Internet, and all those electronic car chargers.
Yes, a maga solar flare can also damage petrol/diesel vehicles if they’re not protected. But is unlikely to bring everything to a halt. I just wonder whether these environmental campaigners have thought about the resilience of our food and medical supplies deliveries.
I think the motorways will be much quieter due to the large car parks full of cars trying to charge up in order to get home. Also who is going to pay for all the new electric cables to be layed to each individual home in the country to carry the extra load to charge cars at home. This alone could take up to 15 or 20 years. No body seems to have thought of the size of this enormous infrastructure. Good luck.
Perhaps retiring or resigning Ministers should not be allowed to significantly change anything in their “run-down” period.
We could save a lot of co2 by withdrawing our troops to defence only, instead of using tons of high explosives in lands over which we do not have sovereignty, and more by giving the opposing forces nothing to shoot at or blow up. A lot of our overseas military actions have been allied to oil production, which we will no longer need.
All commercial and private passenger aircraft flights with significantly few souls on board should be prohibited, and if this inconveniences the rich, the famous, the aristocracy, and politicians, then tough. Rule makers and Rulers should abide by the rules they impose too.
how about the MP’s drive in electric car and not the big fuel guzzling cars
As someone else here comments, the biggest planetary problem – the cause of all the others – is overpopulation. India and Sub-Saharan Africa are the biggest contributors to unsustainable population growth, taking us to 9.5Bn by 2050. Can you see any politicians tackling that?
Yes, let’s do our bit on all the other stuff, but without tackling this, it really is just a bit…..
Will the revalations if child slsve labourers mining the chemicals for electric cars in Africa affect the govetments plans for electric vvehicles ?
The best part of having an EV is that your electricity is much cheaper. You have a job to work out how much it actually costs because none of it adds up. Anyhow, it’s stated that it costs £9 to fully charge a Tesla and it takes three days to do that with a three pin plug, i.e. 3kW(which you must never do or you are likely to burn the house down and get an electric shock). So if you divide the nine hundred pence by twenty four hours and three days and three kW. You get about 4.2 pence per unit. I’m paying 18 pence. Don’t know if you only get the 4.2 pence for your car or for everything though!
This is Theresa May pooing on us for having the temerity for sacking her. Roll on Brexit!
We have just started subscribing to a company called Evezy for an electric car. I am also going to put solar panels on my roof or garage and install a Zappi charger. Still have my Polo ICE car but trying to phase it out as soon as the new batch of longer range and faster charging cars come through in next couple of years. Now need a government to start governing agai n and get the charging infrastructure to make the final tipping point happen. No more fossil cars soon hopefully
I know that those who park on the street will facepalm at reading this given how difficult it is to park nowadays, but the best way to increase electric adoption would be to make it financially easier to own a purely petrol car and purely electric car simultaneously, and then find a way of incentivising the use of the electric over the petrol until a tipping point is reached where for most taking the petrol out is a big deal, and for some they finally choose to get rid of it.
The problem with encouraging hybrids is whilst they can get us to an 80% reduction in vehicle emissions, they cannot possibly take us to 100%, and perhaps just as importantly hybrids do not create the demand for electric-related infrastructure that is necessary to convince holders-out that electric can meet their needs (which currently, for many, it truly can’t).
What they don’t tell EMF if NOT shielded it can cause another devastating health hazard to biological living organisms that included humans
What they don’t tell EMF if NOT shielded it can cause another devastating health hazard to biological living organisms that included humans
Also what about the battery disposal can they be recycled100% otherwise this too can cause pollution and its self just as the combustion engine if not greater… these are the questions that needs to be addressed clearly if you value about environment and living things …
It’s funny how my post gets removed each time I add
What they don’t tell EMF if NOT shielded it can cause another devastating health hazard to biological living organisms that included humans
Also what about the battery disposal can they be recycled100% otherwise this too can cause pollution and its self just as the combustion engine if not greater… these are the questions that needs to be addressed clearly if you value about environment and living things …
Of course” – so call politicians with never fruitfulness promises they make! 🙂