Anyone got a car more than 10 years old ?

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Re: Anyone got a car more than 10 years old ?

Post by macliam » Fri Nov 05 2021 10:28am

Well, it's not all greenwashing - but there is a lot of misinformation or incomplete disclosure. The energy crisis has exposed that.

When were you told that "a lack of wind" could threaten electricity supplies and that the backup was a one-horse circus of Gas-powered production, using a fuel over which we had virtually no control?

When did you become aware that the UK had thrown away its ability to store gas and that this, with the reduced input from the North Sea, was a threat to domestic supplies AND to power generation AND to industry?

What other incomplete, short-termist and badly thought-through policies hang over us like the sword of Damocles? How much confidence can you now have in policies about radiation containment, carbon capture, the proposed new Nuclear reactors, etc., etc?

Then there's the incapacity of the UK to protect its own borders and the attempts to blame anyone and everyone else for the problem.

Then there's Brexit and the stoking of nationalist/isolationist sentiment..............

It's a perfect storm OK - a perfect storm of incompetence.
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Re: Anyone got a car more than 10 years old ?

Post by pabenny » Fri Nov 05 2021 12:45pm

blythburgh wrote:
Fri Nov 05 2021 9:30am
... the plastic bottle I put in the recycling bin that becomes another plastic bottle can be recycled endlessly.
No it can't. Unlike metals and glass which can be indeed be recycled many times, plastics degrade.

Recycling requires demand for the recycled material and so clothing made from recycled material can be a Good Thing.
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Re: Anyone got a car more than 10 years old ?

Post by blythburgh » Sat Nov 06 2021 9:01am

And then there is the building of a new Nuclear Power plant at Sizewell C.

a) it will destroy Minsmere a bird reserve of international importance.
b) it will help destroy the leisure industry in Suffolk due to loss of Minsmere and the single lane roads clogged with Sizewell traffic
c) jobs will be lost and for years the new jobs will go to people brought in to build the plant
and most important of all to you

You are going to pay to build it with a levy on your electricity bill from the day it gets the go ahead

Yes, the Govt. has announced that if Sizewell C goes ahead construction our bills go up immediately
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Re: Anyone got a car more than 10 years old ?

Post by Richard Frost » Sat Nov 06 2021 9:45am

blythburgh wrote:
Sat Nov 06 2021 9:01am
And then there is the building of a new Nuclear Power plant at Sizewell C.

Yes, the Govt. has announced that if Sizewell C goes ahead construction our bills go up immediately
Nothing new there then!

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Re: Anyone got a car more than 10 years old ?

Post by pabenny » Sat Nov 06 2021 12:23pm

I understand your concerns about Sizewell C. But given we need the generating capacity and given that nuclear is zero carbon (sort of), what alternative do you suggest?

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