Fairness and equality are different words and mean different things, you also cut off the second half of that quote in an attempt to prove your point.

It was you talking about fairness.

No, it wasn’t, I didn’t mention fairness because that is not my point at all, my focus is moving away from ICE vehicles.

prefer vehicles to be taxed according to their weight?

As long as all safety system weight is removed from the calculation then maybe! We don’t want companies sacrificing safety for weight reduction.

Also significant changes should only apply to new vehicles, so the rules don’t change retrospectively after people have already made significant financial decisions based on government policy.

Depends on what you are trying to achieve, we should be moving away from burning fuel, and this takes us a step back.

Also the heavier EV argument is a bit weak, they are not much heavier, and wear and tear when the roads that have to cope with 30ton lorries?

The road infrastructure needs to be maintained or we don’t get any deliveries, and the shops have no stock, it’s not just drivers that need the roads.

Sadly no, I don’t think the pay per mile model is the right way to fund our roads if we are still going to charge a large amount of road tax to everyone on top.

But if they want to encourage EV adoption and had no better ideas, they should have introduced a blanket 1p per mile for everyone.

People who bought an electric car on a tight budget and drive 12k a year have been hit with an extra £560 in costs per year in the last 8 months.

In order to introduce this they needed to apply it to both ICE and EVs equally, to keep the transition to EVs going.

This just encourages people to choose ICE and Hybrid over EVs. If you’re paying public charging prices at a very average 3m/kWh you’re paying 28p per mile. Compared with 13.5p per mile for the average petrol car.

This is making any transition to EVs uncompetitive.

I think you will have to report your millage when you pay your car tax, which was only applied to EVs in April this year.

They really seem to hate EV drivers.

The police in my area have an advertising campaign showing all the e-bikes they are confiscating, encouraging people to report their neighbours, and reminding people they are illegal.

This is so infuriating:

• money off brand new cars, enabling price gouging for manufacturers and a slight discount for people who can afford a new car.

• rumor of pay per mile

• public charging still making 200% profit by selling 25p electricity for 75p, could you imagine the uproar if a garage made 200% on petrol???

Labour are just messing up every potential win so badly.

Squeeze the can until it flies up and lands in your mouth.

You’d get about 1M views on TikTok and YouTube

Your Party couldn’t organise a fuckup in a brothel.

Me too, I used to live in the city where everything was within 10 minutes, took the bus every day to work.

Only downside was living with so many people in an enclosed space there was constant noise. But that was before noise cancelling headphones and triple glazing, so may be better now.

I’m going to sound like a carnivore on a Vegan sub now, but genuinely I’m disabled and not easily able to use the bike/transport options.

Apparently 36 minutes walk away from my nearest train station if I walk on a grass verge on a 60mph road with no pavement, there is a bus but that is 28 minutes to the train station with a change of bus and 9 minute walk.

I could probably manage the 2nd option, but not a lot else for the rest of the morning.

What if my home is powered by solar and a home battery, and my car is an EV? I basically have a personal generator and it’s fantastic, it’s just not Diesel, same for the car.

I don’t think I ever said they were particularly bad… just stating facts here. The opinion that “every major news channel is like this” however is troubling. All news channels have their influences, you just have to identify what they are and adjust critical thinking accordingly.

A news channel created by the state of Qatar and initially staffed by ex BBC presenters who were paid massive amounts to attempt to astroturf over their human rights abuses and corruption.

Edit: forgot to add, Qatar also imposes censorship on journalism and uses Al Jazeera to push their “truth”. Hence the irony.

I think bunker living rooms are about to be big, I’ve already ordered an excavator and ten trucks of concrete to build mine.

Does anyone know where you can buy lead-lined steel doors?

Did you update the firmware? I saw a review saying they had a really important update available immediately. Also if one of them hurts one ear have you tried a smaller tip in that one ear?

Not an Apple fanboy, still rocking the 1st gen APP and an iPhone X, but Apple have recently gone for the “release then fix” tactic which has worked so badly for the gaming industry.

My dad is the only one who uses it for watching football, I’ll cancel in December and see if he notices.

The only thing I can’t skip/block seems to be Twitch, but I concentrate on the adverts, I study them, log them, consume them, so I can funnel all my energy into hating the brand. I’m never buying a Renault, watching Chainsaw man, and this year I’m cancelling Prime because they have interrupted my day.