I'll accept that the status quo might not support non-car travel. But this doesn't mean it's okay. What are people DOING about it? If they're lobbying for change and pushing politicians, fine. But they're not, are they? They're buying pickup trucks
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Yes, easy. (SUV MPG/car MPG) gives you the multiplier for how much more people are paying on every trip
It's not even business - a lot of small planes are just hobbyists. So we're getting poisoned (to say nothing of the noise pollution) by people flying in circles for fun
Seriously, hand grinder with a power drill on the shaft. Even if you bought a cheap second hand drill just for this, you'd still be ahead
Good to see they've solved all the dangerous driving in that area
VAT should be going down - it was raised from 17.5% a few years ago as an emergency measure by Cameron and Osborne. How are we even talking about it going up again when it should be the opposite?
Windows 11 has better window shadows than Windows 10. That is literally the only improvement I've found
They can vote. The article was saying they just can't use their veteran cards as proof of identity
More people driving EVs won't make (oil-based) fuel cheaper. Every person getting off oil makes producing oil-based fuels more expensive, as the economies of scale are reduced.
Go to extremes if that helps picture it: imagine you're suddenly the only person on Earth driving an ICE car. How much would you be paying for a fill-up, which now involves finding, extracting, shipping and refining fuel just for you: more than today or less than today?
And you don't see any link between ditching your ICE car and "Saudi Arabia quits drilling for oil"? Better to ditch your ICE car for no car, of course, but if you HAVE to have one, the smallest EV you can get away with is a step towards stopping that oil drilling. If everyone did it, that drilling would change dramatically
It's incredibly selective about which topics it's good for. Want insight into advanced mathematics or new programming languages and people there have amazing insight. But they bring the same level of confidence to the discussion when talking about topics they've no idea about.
The problem is that the populist, nationalist right tends to be good in opposition, because they can shout simplistic slogans and don't have to actually deliver anything.