'Bills into mills' is bullshit. Always has been.
Bills into Dale's pocket would be more accurate.
Thankful someone finally took the time to question the claims of the green sector's biggest grifter.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04...
New electric cars now cheaper than petrol, according to
Autotrader.
The cost argument for sticking with fossil fuels no longer stands up.
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Yes think you might just have the answer there.
You joke but I've always been a bit confused about this. Why are people who think government is inherently bad and we need less of it, in government? If private enterprise is the answer to everything, why don't you go and do that?
Yes and it is great! Probably the best thing I've read about political binaries and conspiracy proliferation. So at least Good Naomi got that out of the confusion.
This is a good way of putting it. The automakers pushing back like to claim consumers make 'rational' decisions – this shows clearly they don't. The rational decision is now electric. So record BEV sales is good but the fact they're still behind petrol and PHEV shows consumers don't understand.
Petar the pheasant frequents ours and the neighbours’ cat Elton’s persistent attempts to catch him could very easily be turned into a cartoon. But what’s good for entertainment is double whammy bad for biodiversity.
Because established thinking is still 'oil and gas are rational, renewables and electrification are ideological'.
Of course anyone who vaguely understands energy knows this is backwards. But the journos who interview ministers are political reporters, not energy or science.
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero LinkedIN post announcing: "Our Fuel Finder scheme mandates all UK petrol stations to report their prices, helping households with a car find the best deals and save around £40 a year. Apps and websites are now displaying real time fuel prices, meaning drivers can find the cheapest fuel at stations close to them."
Nice to see petrol catch up to what the EV charging industry's been doing for years. 😉
Yes that was/is the plan. But the network charges have increased by an absurd amount due to an unpredictable regulatory change in the TCR, vastly increasing the cost CPOs have to eat. Meanwhile gov/industry is messing with EV sales targets, pushing out scale too.
Why is charging your EV on a public network so expensive?
This is the main reason – network charges penalising the operators building before they have customers.
Higher VAT than home is another. Higher energy & operational costs in general another.
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Dude it's just one crisis! Trump'll pull out of Iran, there will never be any other conflicts affecting oil and gas prices, it will all go back to normal and everything will be fine again for ever.
Genuine point made in this article framed as a drawback of the transition: EVs having fewer mechanical problems means we'll need fewer mechanics.
www.thetimes.com/business/ent...
My wife and I, both millennials, had to book some flights on a phone recently and we booked completely the wrong dates, losing a couple of hundred pounds. I am sure this is partially because it is harder to have attention to detail on a small screen. And partially because we are very silly.
One might think we should all be moving away from fuels whose price can be dictated by global geopolitics and conflict.
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Agree. Those of a progressive persuasion, which renewables and climate advocates tend to be, naturally try to do things the 'right' way whilst the other side is less scrupulous. But there are definitely things we could learn and implement without stooping to their level.
Why don't the bot farms and AI slopaganda ever promote, y'know, good stuff?
I'm pretty sure the people doing this will take anyone's money.
Where are the big renewable companies / progressive politicians funding dodgy Sri Lanka based Facebook pages?
(Only a semi-non-serious question btw)
@oldenoughtosay.com I think I can authoritatively recommend @goodenergyuk.bsky.social now I am no longer paid to do so and am in the process of getting a proposal from them myself.
IMO the game was already over. 300 miles is fine. You don't need a range that outlasts your bladder.
What this does is destroy the argument of the last few outliers who *think* they need a petrol equivalent range and charge time.
I know, not trying to explain a basic principle of tech to a tech expert! Just saying it's why WhatsApp bothers me. But hey ho.
You are of course right. But the last point is part of the reason I hate it – the network effect hold it has on us all when better messaging apps exist.
Good to work with Laurence Sleator on this piece.
This ruling is not the job done, yet. But in ruling that the 5% VAT rate is already legally applicable to public EV charging, it opens the door to a quick win for Government to reduce the cost of public charging.
www.thetimes.com/uk/transport...
Clear message from @thecccuk.bsky.social which anyone proposing that the answer to a fossil fuel crisis is somehow more fossil fuels should be able to understand.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Dupont? Just gave us septpont.
Dancey Graham more like.
Excitement about this is a bit premature unfortunately.
1. It applies only to Charge My Street's case and
2. HMRC can appeal
BUT it's still a positive signal and well timed as we're go into a Government review into the cost of public EV charging.
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/net-ze...
Looks like they changed the headline. Odd.
It looks like this headline has been altered since you posted? Maybe an the sub editor got a bit overzealous.
