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countries to make more moves like this. Politicians making grand calls about
the ending of petrol and diesel cars are really just an advanced form of virtue
signalling. The technological base is not really there yet to change the entire
vehicle fleet from oil based to lithium based.
“Rishi Sunak has announced major changes to the UK’s key
green policies.
The Prime Minister has confirmed he will be delaying a ban on
the sales of new petrol and diesel cars and phasing out gas boilers until 2035.
He said in a speech at Westminster that the UK has ‘stumbled
into a consensus about the future of our country that nobody seems to be happy
with.’
He said he is ‘confident’ the UK can lead the world in green
policies, and that there is no doubt that climate change is visible due to the
high temperatures seen in the UK this summer.
The PM said he would put back a ban on new fossil fuel cars
by five years in a major U-turn among a raft of measures.”[1]
The idea of
“green energy” is a bit of a myth anyway. Lithium and other battery minerals
have to be mined in large mines, just like coal and uranium. And they are very difficult to dispose of. Often these
minerals are found in parts of the world that are underdeveloped or even hot
war zones. They
require the construction of a massive energy base load system that cannot rely
on things like solar panels and wind farms, especially in a nation like
Britain. Even in Australia such technology is not enough to run our entire
electrical grid, plus the addition of every vehicle being converted or changed to battery based technology.
For so long
now so much of the media, politicians and academia have been just asserting
that the future is devoid of fossil fuels, and just ignoring the reality of
what it will take to move western nations over to such technology. Many of the
problems are very well known, it is as if these groups just think that there
will be people who have come up with solutions by 2030, or 2035. But as time
moves on it is becoming clearer and clearer that the technology we currently
have is far superior in many ways, and much more reliable, and therefore very
difficult to replace.
Electric
cars are likely here to stay, and are kind of cool in some ways, as long as you
are nowhere near the things when they catch on fire in an underground carpark or
apartment block carpark, of course. But getting rid of oil based cars is a pipe
dream at our current technological levels. These dates are going to keep
getting pushed back, politicians are going to keep hoping that someone invents
something that solves the problems created by their false promises. In the
meantime, countries like China, Russia, India and others are making use of the
whole range of electrical grid and fossil fuel offerings to turn their once
underdeveloped economies into some of the most advanced economies in the world.
One day soon, the West is going to wake up to the fact that it kneecapped
itself, technologically speaking, and the rest of the world has taken advantage
of its arrogance and complacency to overtake it.
List of references.
[1] Liam
Coleman 2023, https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/rishi-delays-ban-on-sale-of-petrol-and-diesel-by-five-years-in-net-zero-pledge/ar-AA1h0paS?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=a27716e0c6e84113b0150106da5f7ab8&ei=39
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