Eric Roberts

Electric cars are not as green as they try to tell us!

The electric car myth does not fool everybody! The experts are now pulling the things apart. The government have fooled the public into thinking that these are the future and the future is now here.

This is a load of rubbish! The electric car is not compared the same as other things. Simply because the electric they use is not green. The establishment play about with figures that are not correct.

The millions of people that can just afford a little run around car will be taken off the road. Many middle to low income families can just about afford a small family petrol or diesel driven car.

As a garage owner I know this. Our customers tell us these things. We know what people can or cannot afford. Garage owners have to set their stalls out accordingly to stay if business.

Many of our customers are also immigrants.

 Their first priority when they come to the UK is to buy a second hand car. This is one of the signs that they have made it in this country. Our immigrant customers tell us how they send picture back home sitting in their newly bought car.

Another part of our car owning society is our grown up children. Many need car to get to work in. How often do we see a tarmacked driveway? With three or four older cars parked on it. This is now the norm in the UK. Gardens are been dug up to provide parking spaces for the home owners and their children to park their “pride and joy” cars.

All this will be wiped away starting with the 2030 UK deadline to ban petrol and diesel cars. This idiotic deadline must be stretched well into the future and allow a very gradual time scale for transforming to electric cars or the better option of hybrid cars.

We can all see the electric cars that are now driven. The cars owners are all the better off people who would be normally driving new BMW, s or Mercedes larger status models.

The rest of the population will have to suffer and try make a living out of catching the bus or unreliable train. I can see the brushwood blowing down the streets of our old British Victorian towns as I write this article. Not a single car to be seen  

These deadlines must be scrapped. Electric cars are part of our future I agree with this. However this policy will bring hardship to millions of people making car ownership impossible. Also the Automotive industry as it is will be transformed from the small/medium garages to the giant auto companies and their dealerships.

Small/medium garages have been the back bone of the automotive industry bringing affordable car repairs to most of our population. These will be wiped out if a minority of car owners drive the dreaded electric cars.  

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