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I fail to understand why we are being bribed to switch to electricity powered cars when our energy supplies are running out anyway! I foresee a time when stacks of these cars are stuck on driveways all over England with owners being unable to charge them up because electric and gas supplies have dwindled and become rationed. What's the government going to do then?

Well it'd better than not doing anything at all. But I'm sure they could make electric cars cheaper to buy if they wanted to

Government subsidies for green solutions are a fantastic idea, they should just be larger. The additional expense being covered by taxation of the energy industry whilst energy prices are kept under control by regulation so the increase in tax is not passed on to the consumer, we pay far more than necessary already. Energy companies could somewhat alleviate these taxes by investing in green technologies and environmentally friendly energy production solutions themselves.


You have to wonder what the future of the electric car is. Will it be the car running on batteries charged from the mains as shown here or the car producing its own electricity from hydrogen fuel cells or analogous technology? This could another VHS/Betamax situation; nobody wants to be the one person on their street plugging in the car overnight whilst everyone else is topping up with hydrogen at the local BP

Plugging in your electric car every night is going to produce carbon emissions. Top Gear featured a hydrogen car that only emitted water, surely this is the way to go?

Err Hello? Where does the electricity come from? Its not free green or cheap. Generally it comes from fossil fuels or nuclear. While upping demand will only push prices through the roof for everyone. Then how will Nan heat her house? Yet another mis guided vote winner I would suggest! Look beyond the trendy green tag consumers!!!!!!!!!!!

As the Driver of a large performance car, taxed to death by the 'Green Brigade', I have this to say...

The life of the car is LIMITED, if we have Electric Cars, we need to produce electricity, but that adds to the CARBON emissions, so the GREEN PARTIES need to do more homework... Hydrogen Cars, good idea in principle, but not effective long term and too expensive... what is wrong with a return to good old 1HP? Horses, been used for centuries, work well, virtually emission free and at the end of it's useful life, you can recycle it onto your plate...!

I do not believe any of the garbage spouted as 'Global Warming' or the reasons given.. look at your history and you will see that 200 years ago, the sun entered into a 'quiet' phase and Englands average temp dropped by around 1/2 a degree leading to a mini Ice Age, it is my contention that we have been warming up as part of the natural cycle of comming out of that mini ice age...

Oh, but hang on, the Sun has been entering another quiet phase again and no one knows how long it will last (the last one was 70yrs), so don't worry so much about carbon emissions, we will need a warmer planet unless you want to freeze your rocks off....!