Kemi Badenoch: Tories to scrap petrol ban if they win next election

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• frankPodmore@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can you imagine explaining this to people in a few decades?

  ‘People were opposed to electric cars back in the old days.’ ‘Oh, that’s weird. Were petrol cars cheaper?’ ‘Nope’. ‘Were they… cleaner?’ ‘No, no. They made the air poisonous, actually.’ ‘Even for the people driving them?’ ‘Especially for the people driving them!’ ‘Oh, so petrol engines must’ve been more efficient.’ ‘Ha ha, oh God, no.’ ‘???’

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  • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Unlikely. Why folks choose them is pretty easy. 2 mins charge time. And no battery damage from fast charging. Unless 2065 has super capacitor like charging and fials totally to teach the history of science.

    The question will be more. Why the hell did voters allow there govs not to invest the same in an electric support infrastructure. As they did in fossile fuels back in the 1950s

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• Lemming421@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  EAT SMOG, POORS

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I already wasn’t going to vote for you, no need for the hard sell.

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• Swaus01@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well thank you for another reason not to vote Tory, Mrs Badenoch. As if it needed to be made any clearer.

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• Beefstah@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Did this ban include hybrids?

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• deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Big if

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• maam@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Selling out the people like usual.

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• comrade_twisty@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Bans are the worst form of politics anyways. Just show people how much more affordable the alternatives are and subsidize local manufacturing of new environmentally friendly and sustainable tech. Let people make their own choices with their wallets and all will work out in the long run. People don’t want to be told what to do.

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  • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But companies need to be told what to do. Because for them, keeping everything the same and never changing is the cheapest. Even if you factor in the massive amount of lobbying they do against alternatives.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Are you one of those “regulations are bad” people? Many regulations are outright bans.

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    • comrade_twisty@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No, not at all. I am just saying there are more effective ways of steering people in the right direction here than banning their beloved combustion engines.

      Just creating an illusion of choice while the eco friendly option is the only sensible option for their wallets will do the trick and they will rave about their new car and how much money they save instead of bitching about bans and stupid politicians.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That only works when the population for the most part acts rationally and reasons from facts and not like a cult that lives completely divorced from reality and doesn’t reason and can’t be reasoned with.

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  • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This outright ignores multiple facts.

    1 we have known how bad this shit is since the 1970s. When Exxon was the company that released the research. Yes Exxon discovered climate change.

    The company then changed leadership and spent a fortune trying to bury their own research.

    The simple fact is. Without government bans. Corperations have 0 motive to change their previous investment strategies. And huge motive to fight any competition that dose.

    People have known electrical power is more efficient and cheaper since the 1900s. But as oil corps have been investing in infrastructure and government control since then. They have sold convenience as an intrinsic element of fossil fuel. Dispite the huge huge investment tax payers have been forced to spend to create this network.

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