Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t michel – Remember when we used to laugh about Soviets queuing for years to purchase a Lada?
Petrol cars ‘rationed to meet eco targets’
Warning comes as consumer demand for expensive electric cars continues to wane
Matt Oliver, INDUSTRY EDITOR 2 September 2024 • 9:32pm
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Robert Forrester, chief executive of Vertu Motors, said manufacturers were delaying deliveries of cars until next year amid fears they will otherwise breach quotas set for them by the Government.
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He said: “In some franchises there’s a restriction on supply of petrol cars and hybrid cars, which is actually where the demand is.
“It’s almost as if we can’t supply the cars that people want, but we’ve got plenty of the cars that maybe they don’t want.
“They [manufacturers] are trying to avoid the fines. So they’re constraining the ability for us to supply petrol cars in order to try and keep to the government targets.”
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Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/09/02/manufacturers-ration-petrol-cars-hybrid-electric/
Even if people caved to this arrogant government coercion, Britain does not have the spare electricity to charge hundreds of thousands of new EVs.
A home EV fast charger uses around 10Kw. Half a million EVs plugged in at home around dinner time would draw 10Kw x 500,000 = 5,000,000 Kw = an additional 5GW from the grid. Spare generation capacity the UK simply doesn’t have.
UK faces 7.5GW energy generation crunch in 2028
Old resources are retiring, while new resources are slow to arrive
February 27, 2024 By Peter Judge
By 2028, the UK will face a power crisis as the grid’s guaranteed capacity will be less than power demands, according to a new report.
The crunch on capacity will be at its tightest in 2028, reaching 7.5GW, because the country is retiring old capacity faster than new resources can be brought online.
The situation is made worse by increasing demand for power, and delays to the Hinkley Point C nuclear plant, according to a report from power plant operator Drax.
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Read more: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/uk-faces-75gw-energy-generation-crunch-in-2028/
California has shown us what happens when the grid runs out of power. EV owners go to the back of the queue.
The burden of this latest green brainstorm will disproportionately affect poor people. It will drive up the cost of older gasoline vehicles, as people hang on to old vehicles longer.
The wealthy will not be impacted by vehicle sale rationing – no automobile dealer in their right mind would turn down a hundred thousand pound profit on the sale of a premium vehicle, if all they have to do to protect themselves from quota penalties is tell an ordinary person their vehicle has been delayed.
Take away the serfs’ ability to travel, herd them into government owned habitrail housing situated in 15 minute cities, stifle any free speech against the millions of savage invaders being “welcomed” into the formerly first world society, tightly regulate and restrict which foods and other staples of life can be purchased (using the implanted chip, of course), and total control over the lemmings is assured. The globalist’s plan is clear to see for anyone possessing more than a thimble full of CNS material. The real question is what to do about this. “Vote harder” obviously doesn’t work, as nearly every western country sports a “uniparty” whose agenda has nothing to do with the welfare of its citizens or the country itself. Diarmament/gun confiscation in most countries has ruled out any real resistance to looming tyranny. Have we passed the point of no return?
So you either do not recharge your EV for the next day’s commute, or extend your bedtime by how many hours? or get up how many hours earlier?
Quite an impact on quality of life. Sad.
This is over-egging the pudding. Nobody charges their EV at dinner time, they wait until after midnight (atl east here in California). There is spare generation capacity then even in the UK, I assume.
Nobody?
I am in bed, asleep by 8.
Up at 4 and on my way to work.
I would never recharge a LiPO battery without personally monitoring it.
So my only choice is sleep depravation.
I’ve asked my MP several times when their government is going to ban imports. No reply
It is a fundamental principle of a liberal democracy, whether constitutional republic or populist, to protect the citizens from the government. This, sadly, as been lost as the toilet continues to flush.
In the long run, who cares? Britons deserve this punishment for making stupid voting choices It’s not like Labour’s anti-energy policies came out of nowhere. Britons were warned but they went ahead and did it anyway. So screw ’em.
Elections have consquences The only effect of this will be:
1. Keir Starmer getting Labour eviscerated at the next election;
2. the last remnants of British industry being destroyed or driven offshore;
3. the increasing depopulation of Britain by young people wanting jobs and careers;
4. the increasing worthlessness of the UK pound vs. US dollar;
5. the hammering of British households via inflation.
Why not ration wool also, while you’re at it!!