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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Depending on who you believe the green levy on energy adds between 7.8% and 25% to the cost of household fuel bills.

Even the lower figure is still alot of money on an annual bill of, say, £2000.

Given the current crisis do you think the government should put a hold on it's aspirations to become more carbon neutral and scrap the levy, at least until things settle down?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes.

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

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I definitely think they should shelf all ideas of all car's being electric.

I can't see how it's ever going to happen.

Fine if you live in the suburbs or country where it's possible to have a charge point outside every house but in cities or Built up town's not even remotely possible.

The carbon footprint from all the materials used to make batteries and disposal of old ones is ridiculous.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I definitely think they should shelf all ideas of all car's being electric.

I can't see how it's ever going to happen.

Fine if you live in the suburbs or country where it's possible to have a charge point outside every house but in cities or Built up town's not even remotely possible.

The carbon footprint from all the materials used to make batteries and disposal of old ones is ridiculous."

Not only the carbon footprint of making batteries but also the environmental damage of mining the materials that go into them, often exploiting third world countries with poor environmental records.

On the subject of electric cars. I'd like to know where all this extra electricity is going to come from. It wasn't that long ago that the experts were warning us that we were on the limit of production. This is the excuse they used to get Hinckley passed (it's still not finished and massively overbudget).

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.


"I definitely think they should shelf all ideas of all car's being electric.

I can't see how it's ever going to happen.

Fine if you live in the suburbs or country where it's possible to have a charge point outside every house but in cities or Built up town's not even remotely possible.

The carbon footprint from all the materials used to make batteries and disposal of old ones is ridiculous.

Not only the carbon footprint of making batteries but also the environmental damage of mining the materials that go into them, often exploiting third world countries with poor environmental records.

On the subject of electric cars. I'd like to know where all this extra electricity is going to come from. It wasn't that long ago that the experts were warning us that we were on the limit of production. This is the excuse they used to get Hinckley passed (it's still not finished and massively overbudget). "

Well we live on an island surrounded by water and waves I'm pretty sure that they could use this without a massive environmental impact and cheaper and cleaner than nuclear options.

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden

They need to get a lot more renewable energy "generation" in place.

And hydrogen fuel cell cars would be good.

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By *instonandLadyAstorCouple
over a year ago

Not where we seem to be...


"I definitely think they should shelf all ideas of all car's being electric.

I can't see how it's ever going to happen.

Fine if you live in the suburbs or country where it's possible to have a charge point outside every house but in cities or Built up town's not even remotely possible.

The carbon footprint from all the materials used to make batteries and disposal of old ones is ridiculous."

Add in the additional demand on the grid to supply the electricity, it's wholly unworkable at the moment.

We're already building battery storage facilities to give network resilience as the current (no pun intended) method of generation can't provide the resilience for what we use now.

Winston

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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago

yumsville

Without funding green investments will get put back meaning counties that do support research or invest in green projects or industries will advance. One year of zero funding will mean green industries will either go bust, get into debt, be sold off or simply not become viable.

The knock on cost of not scaling up is far worse than waiting and seeing - it's part reason for the cost of living crisis now.

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