Yes. Now that they’ve broken the seal on per-mile taxation, I guess there’s no limit to it. Interestingly, I read that fuel duty nets the Treasury some £25bn/year and that this (coincidentally) is the same figure that a 2% tax on wealth over £10million would produce. Just saying.

How can they do that without also driving up the running cost of your fridge, oven and TV (which is political suicide?). Ok, they’re putting 3p per mile tax on EVs from 2028, and that will slow the transition somewhat, but still results in far cheaper driving than (70% inefficient) ICEs.

Yes - a 3p per mile increase from 2028. Not great for speeding the transition to EVs, but still resulting in a cheaper per mile cost than ICEs, which is perhaps not surprising given that ICEs are 70% inefficient.

Our EV drives at 2-3p per mile, vs our old diesel Golf cost of 12-15p per mile. If you do 10k mile per year, that’s a saving of up to £1300 per year, every year. For which you get the bonus of never having to step onto a forecourt, cheaper maintenance and a better driving experience.

One of the (many) incomprehensible things about the Cold War is that the US detonated over 100 nuclear weapons in Nevada *in the open air*…ie they spent a good part of it nuking themselves.

I agree. They also failed to fully explore the consequences of their own possible response. Even a limited nuclear exchange between two countries would throw enough dust up to ruin global harvests. The FEMA official’s “10m+10%” risk assessment didn’t adequately cover that.

The Jevons Paradox?

Pass silly laws, win stupid prizes.

I’m in my 40s. For me, these organisations have never represented activism that results in change. Their names are most familiar from old posters that my grandparents had on the wall in their loo.

Amazing. Time to show up for some quality climate and nature information, government peeps.

(My rental just now was tuned to Talk radio - they were discussing Net Zero and oh my there’s still a wild welter of confusion and misinformation out there…)

Exactly!

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“After Saturday’s protest, the chair of the Metropolitan police federation said officers policing protests in London were “emotionally and physically exhausted”.”

Well yes- that’s what happens when bad laws compel police to arrest peaceful, often elderly, people rather than focus on actual crime.

Not a great look, Sadiq Khan. Nothing about this reads as ‘6th form politics’ to the public. Gaza is arguably one of the great moral catastrophes of our time.

Imagine the press if this were EVs