Thrugelmir;281175 wrote:Jonathan Friend;281174 wrote:Luca Brasi;281097 wrote:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12582081/Marshals-brought-police-charge-rage-rows-electric-vehicle-drivers-motorway-power-points.html
Made me laugh, weren't EV drivers feeling rather smug when we had short term fuel queues a couple of years ago.
Government doing what it does best: creating queues.
How is the Government creating queues? Since when did people require nannying in every aspect of their daily lives. Common sense left at home. Feel the need to be become lawless, aggressive, self entitled , rude and lacking patience.
Because government has encouraged this ludicrous situation by intervening where the market would not go and forcing a fantasy idea that the world and available infrastructure isn't ready for, and may never be since this might just be the wrong answer. Possibly the wrong answer to the wrong question. Whenever they back horses they end up losing all the money.
And before you suggest that government hasn't encouraged this... ICE ban a mere 7 years away, which they've only just rowed back on. This has forced manufacturers to rush new EVs on to the market. Consumers have been encouraged with subsidies, the promise of low cost fuel versus massively over taxed petrol, and all manner of propaganda.
But now that it's playing out we see there's nowhere near enough supporting infrastructure, that the insurance industry isn't necessarily playing ball, that the lifetime CO2 footprint isn't even any better than a lot of ICE vehicles, additional pollution from tyres and braking because of the weight, fire hazards and bans by ferry companies, and concerns about multi storey car parks. In other words, they've warped markets and spent loads of public money and the outcome is worse than if they'd done nothing at all.
This IS the contemporary reminder, or lesson for those who didn't know, of how useless government is beyond basic functions. I'd even say dangerous. HS2? 60 odd billion spent to shave a few minutes off the journey from London to Birmingham... and according to some, it will actually take longer than before because of the connections required in London. Our entire energy base is now tainted by the dead hand of the state. It should have been obvious enough from the permashambles that is our nationalised health service... 7.5 million and counting. As I say: creating queues, they're good at that.
For those of us who saw it all coming and warned others years ago, and were either ignored or maligned for doing so, it is some vindication although not particularly pleasing.