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Originally Posted by Kev0607
I still say this is about lining pockets thick (money).
For this country to reach net zero emissions, we’ll have to go back to the stone age… We can try of course. Driving older cars for longer isn’t as bad for the environment as people think. If everyone swaps to newer cars or even electric (which will happen in the next 10 years or so), the scrapping alone of the old cars is more harmful.
What happens to all the batteries in electric cars when they go to the scrap yard (this will happen with crashes etc). You produce emissions to make batteries & the acid in them is toxic when they go to landfill. We could recycle them, but then we’ll end up with millions of batteries stock piled & that in itself is a hazard. There’s no word of this though, yet we’re “cutting emissions”.  |
All revenue from the congestion charge in London is received by Transport for London and only invested in transport. To say this is about lining pockets is just a lazy smear.
In your world it seems we would never make progress on anything. You sound like the sort of person who objected to taking lead out of petrol.
This isn't like curing cancer - we know what to do and the technologies to do it are mostly here or in train.