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Monday 8th 48-55F, dark grey and windy but dry. The cloud is breaking up but it is chilly on the hands in the stiff breeze. Several large birds of prey were circling over a local hill. Though they were only visible through my binoculars. Too distant for my camera to register anything. I call it a hill but the trees show its true scale.Wednesday 9th 52F, dark grey and breezy. Not nearly as cold as yesterday. A lady car driver swerved as if to run me over on the verge. Another car had arrived from behind me over the brow of the hill just as the lady driver was trying to go past me while giving me plenty of room.
The Danish government is suggesting that it is coming out with a new "climate" law. One of the suggestions is that wood stoves will have to be checked and updated to a newer model if out of date. i.e. Pre-2000, but only on a change of owner of the property.
A modest discount will be offered to those who voluntarily update their own stove. So anyone who doesn't move and who burns demolition waste in a prewar "boiler" won't be bothered by the law. It's filthy business as usual. Including the deafening chainsaws to saw up the filthy pallets and lead painted chipboard. While their Pre-WW1 chimney "safely" belches black smoke into the wind. A mere drop in the ocean compared with VWs genocidal profiteering.
The idea of giving a small discount on the huge import duties on electric vehicles has also hit a snag. The "Wide Open Borders" Left claim it was their idea. The Extreme Right don't believe it will reduce CO2 and AGW is a Commy con anyway.
The real problem seems to be the high price of electric vehicles. Giving a discount to the already wealthy to buy yet another car in the "luxury" price range is considered a bit non-PC.
Which makes a change after the government paid the middle classes to install solar panels with a repayment period of a couple of years, on their short term bank loans, from Grid feedback. They also gave tax discounts to those who could afford to hire Eastern European builders to install wine cellars and indoor swimming pools. While the general housing stock goes to rack and ruin because nobody can afford Danish labour charges.
It's modern slave labour at Danish taxpayer's expense, if you like. Most major Danish showpiece building projects are built with modern slave labour. A no-win situation if ever there was one. Except for the Eastern European people traffickers. Who are laundering their Danish taxpayer's money through Danish banks.
Combating AGW needs the masses to invest heavily in "alternatives" at their own expense. The trouble is that the alternatives are currently far too expensive. There are no mass market electric or hybrid cars. Most rural homes have at least two cars. A His and Hers and often one or two more for the offspring who haven't moved on. All are petrol or diesel driven and bought secondhand. It will take literally decades before the secondhand car market sees affordable electric vehicles via "trickle down."
By which time they will needs cars which can travel on water. Is Ford or VW offering an amphibious car for the masses? They had better do so soon or the masses won't be able to afford them decades down the [flooded] road. Not on top of the standing prescription charges for their entire family's "happy pills" as well.
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Why don't You look for electric vehicles in small scale in first place? Bicycle or tricycle (or even quad) with electric motor is great for short distances. People get caught in idea that car has to be very heavy and very fast. Why not ultra-light electric vehicle (say tricycle)???
ReplyDeleteHi and thanks for your valuable comment.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with many "alternative" vehicles is that they need just as much room on the road, to be safe, as do normal cars and vans. Nor do smaller and slower vehicles share the road easily with larger, heavier and faster vehicles. Weather protection and warmth in winter is another major problem. Electric motors will help but there must be suitable paths or roads for small vehicles to make any sense. One way travel, like most, city bicycle paths, are essential. Not everybody has the skills to negotiate normal traffic. Being stuck in a daily traffic jam will not make them happy that they wasted money on a smaller vehicle with exactly the same problems as the normal cars and vans.