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Abhorrent that a government, in a democracy, chooses to do what people want? A bit strong IMO.

That's the point. If we get 5-minute charging in future, then we won't need street chargers; but if charging still takes 40 minutes or so, then we will. People on their way home don't stop for 40 minutes to fill up with petrol.

The cost of installing millions of charging points in every terraced street and near every block of flats would be huge. As would the cost of removing them again, unused, if the hoped-for solid-state faster recharging batteries become technologically possible. There may be better uses for...

There was a suggested government policy that recycling would have to be sorted by councils into seven different categories. I think many people just assumed that the councils would want seven bins for the seven categories; maybe not, maybe the councils were planning to let you bung all...

Primarily market forces. People (and I am one of them, having recently had a new gas boiler fitted to replace the old one) do not care enough about the environment, or aren't convinced enough of their own contribution to the damage, to pay an extra £10k or so (after allowing for grants) to fit...

I think I get it - at present offshore wind generation is cheaper than gas generation because of high gas prices. Until the war in Ukraine, gas generation was cheaper, and if we hadn't gone a bit gooey about the politics of North Sea gas generation it still would be. I hadn't actually realised...

This is something that I've often heard quoted. And yet the recent "who wants to build a wind farm" auction of licences, nobody bid because the subsidies the government was offering, were too low. Why would we need to subsidise a form of electricity generation that is cheaper than what they're...

Electric car technology might be in soon, although as so much of the infrastructure depends on the government getting its finger out and acting efficiently, it seems unlikely that the grid will be ready. At present a house with gas gets about 4 times as many kwh of power from gas than it does...