The Big 'Let's sell our cars and take buses/ebikes instead' thread (warning: probably very dull)
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I read your links so you don't have to.1
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Never mind, you'll just get fed lesskingstongraham said:I read your links so you don't have to.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Just shows how useful estate cars are.rick_chasey said:"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
This is why they are pushing e-tickets. Having taken my bike on the train a few times, you do need to think carefully about where it makes sense to just get off and ride. For example, crossing London from one terminal to another.rick_chasey said:1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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So is a transit van, but not much fun. Nicer to sit down, read a book and enjoy the view.Stevo_666 said:
Just shows how useful estate cars are.rick_chasey said:1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Is that one eye looking down at the book and the other eye twisted to look out the window? Sounds a bit uncomfortable.rjsterry said:
So is a transit van, but not much fun. Nicer to sit down, read a book and enjoy the view.Stevo_666 said:
Just shows how useful estate cars are.rick_chasey said:0 -
Well whaddaya know?pblakeney said:
That just has to be saved for future reference! 🤣kingstongraham said:
If that happens I'll eat a BMW.orraloon said:
Will be heading back up in March with the 23% / 12p per litre hike in fuel duty incoming courtesy the #toryscum GINO. Happy with that panzerwagonboi?Stevo_666 said:
Petrol is coming down a fair bit - cycled* past a station in South London this morning that had unleaded below 143p/l.0 -
Dammit! 🤣kingstongraham said:
Well whaddaya know?pblakeney said:
That just has to be saved for future reference! 🤣kingstongraham said:
If that happens I'll eat a BMW.orraloon said:
Will be heading back up in March with the 23% / 12p per litre hike in fuel duty incoming courtesy the #toryscum GINO. Happy with that panzerwagonboi?Stevo_666 said:
Petrol is coming down a fair bit - cycled* past a station in South London this morning that had unleaded below 143p/l.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
There's always money to appease motorists.0
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Bear in mind that the forecasts pretend that it will go up next year, which it won't either. Easy way to flatter the figures until something else comes along.0
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The benefits of a lazy eye 😆Dorset_Boy said:
Is that one eye looking down at the book and the other eye twisted to look out the window? Sounds a bit uncomfortable.rjsterry said:
So is a transit van, but not much fun. Nicer to sit down, read a book and enjoy the view.Stevo_666 said:
Just shows how useful estate cars are.rick_chasey said:1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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This will cost 17 times as much as was cut from the active travel budget.kingstongraham said:There's always money to appease motorists.
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He could have halved the number of tickets and massively improved his quality of life by not returning to Sheffield 😀Stevo_666 said:
Just shows how useful estate cars are.rick_chasey said:2 -
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surrey_commuter said:
He could have halved the number of tickets and massively improved his quality of life by not returning to Sheffield 😀Stevo_666 said:
Just shows how useful estate cars are.rick_chasey said:
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I went there on a field trip to study urban deprivation.rick_chasey said:Now now, I won’t stand for Sheffield slander. Great city
To give you an idea of how long ago that was we also went round a steel mill0 -
My experience is also 15 years out of date and I think I was there at the tail end of a boom period, so YMMV.surrey_commuter said:
I went there on a field trip to study urban deprivation.rick_chasey said:Now now, I won’t stand for Sheffield slander. Great city
To give you an idea of how long ago that was we also went round a steel mill
Loved it though. Would move back if the work was there.0 -
Sheffield (especially the west side) is heaven for cyclists. Although many of the comments on this thread make me wonder how many actual cyclists are on here
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I identify myself as travel fluid. 😉The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Looks like the first of many loopholes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor/2023/02/16/europes-tough-2035-co2-laws-give-supercar-makers-a-free-pass/
I heard Croatia is going to go against the EU directive as well by complaining they just don't have the infrastructure or capacity to do this without building 3 new powerstations for it to work.
Also seems like Spain is taking valuable arable land to create new solar farms to provide power.
https://www.agroberichtenbuitenland.nl/actueel/nieuws/2020/03/03/spain-agricultural-lands-turning-into-solar-farms
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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Hopefully this the dam starting starting to break as reality dawns. There are a lot of interesting low volume manufacturers to choose from, we should 'shop small' and help them survivephotonic69 said:Looks like the first of many loopholes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor/2023/02/16/europes-tough-2035-co2-laws-give-supercar-makers-a-free-pass/
I heard Croatia is going to go against the EU directive as well by complaining they just don't have the infrastructure or capacity to do this without building 3 new powerstations for it to work.
Also seems like Spain is taking valuable arable land to create new solar farms to provide power.
https://www.agroberichtenbuitenland.nl/actueel/nieuws/2020/03/03/spain-agricultural-lands-turning-into-solar-farms "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Buy a supercar and save the planet!Stevo_666 said:
Hopefully this the dam starting starting to break as reality dawns. There are a lot of interesting low volume manufacturers to choose from, we should 'shop small' and help them survivephotonic69 said:Looks like the first of many loopholes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor/2023/02/16/europes-tough-2035-co2-laws-give-supercar-makers-a-free-pass/
I heard Croatia is going to go against the EU directive as well by complaining they just don't have the infrastructure or capacity to do this without building 3 new powerstations for it to work.
Also seems like Spain is taking valuable arable land to create new solar farms to provide power.
https://www.agroberichtenbuitenland.nl/actueel/nieuws/2020/03/03/spain-agricultural-lands-turning-into-solar-farms
I also hear that VW, BMW, Ford etc are all lobbying for changes to the legislation as there is no way they can secure enough lithium to make the batteries for the cars they are supposed to make.Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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shush - Rick has been saying that from the start and will be insufferable if proved rightphotonic69 said:
Buy a supercar and save the planet!Stevo_666 said:
Hopefully this the dam starting starting to break as reality dawns. There are a lot of interesting low volume manufacturers to choose from, we should 'shop small' and help them survivephotonic69 said:Looks like the first of many loopholes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor/2023/02/16/europes-tough-2035-co2-laws-give-supercar-makers-a-free-pass/
I heard Croatia is going to go against the EU directive as well by complaining they just don't have the infrastructure or capacity to do this without building 3 new powerstations for it to work.
Also seems like Spain is taking valuable arable land to create new solar farms to provide power.
https://www.agroberichtenbuitenland.nl/actueel/nieuws/2020/03/03/spain-agricultural-lands-turning-into-solar-farms
I also hear that VW, BMW, Ford etc are all lobbying for changes to the legislation as there is no way they can secure enough lithium to make the batteries for the cars they are supposed to make.1 -
and if my Aunt had balls she would be my Unclerick_chasey said:
My experience is also 15 years out of date and I think I was there at the tail end of a boom period, so YMMV.surrey_commuter said:
I went there on a field trip to study urban deprivation.rick_chasey said:Now now, I won’t stand for Sheffield slander. Great city
To give you an idea of how long ago that was we also went round a steel mill
Loved it though. Would move back if the work was there.
That used to make more sense 5+ years ago0 -
It's not just the amount of metals in the earth that are minable (one problem) but the fact that, for the next decade at least, the entire industry will be reliant on Chinese refiners to get the metals to a usable level.surrey_commuter said:
shush - Rick has been saying that from the start and will be insufferable if proved rightphotonic69 said:
Buy a supercar and save the planet!Stevo_666 said:
Hopefully this the dam starting starting to break as reality dawns. There are a lot of interesting low volume manufacturers to choose from, we should 'shop small' and help them survivephotonic69 said:Looks like the first of many loopholes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor/2023/02/16/europes-tough-2035-co2-laws-give-supercar-makers-a-free-pass/
I heard Croatia is going to go against the EU directive as well by complaining they just don't have the infrastructure or capacity to do this without building 3 new powerstations for it to work.
Also seems like Spain is taking valuable arable land to create new solar farms to provide power.
https://www.agroberichtenbuitenland.nl/actueel/nieuws/2020/03/03/spain-agricultural-lands-turning-into-solar-farms
I also hear that VW, BMW, Ford etc are all lobbying for changes to the legislation as there is no way they can secure enough lithium to make the batteries for the cars they are supposed to make.0 -
Got to be honest, I’m not in the super car market but I think we’re on a very painful trajectory with electric cars.
There is simply not enough charging infrastructure in place or being provisioned and yet manufacturers are already switching over production lines.
2030 is not realistic for all new cars to be electric but the manufacturer are understandably working to that deadline. And then you have the supply problems.
Not anti electric (unlike some) but I think the trajectory is massively off. Labour need to have some strong ideas in this area as it’s going to start biting more and more in the next parliament.0 -
In my superior correct opinion humanity needs a combination of all technologies. Electric cars suit some people (short trips, able to charge on the drive) and others not. Also, mentioned in the thread earlier new battery technology is evolving, sodium based as one example.0
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Oh, VW are making a new EV polo called the ID2.0
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The Welsh Government’s new idea is a possible clean air zone on the M4 at Brynglas tunnels if the current 50mph limit doesn’t work at reducing pollution. I haven’t seen any details but there seems to be an obvious issue in making pollution worse with drivers diverting through residential areas to avoid the charge.0
