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Electric vehicles won't help UK meet emissions targets: Time to get out and walk, warn MPs

Jellied Eel Silver badge

Re: legal target

So if its a 'legally binding' requirement, what happens if it isn't achieved ?

Sceptics and engineers can say 'we told you so'. The Green Blob starts judiicial and legal proceedings to protect their luxurious subsidies.

But laws are created by Parliament. In this case, mostly Ed Milliband's Climate Change Act, writ for him by one Bryonny Worthington, formerly of Friends of the Earth, currently a Baroness ensconced in the Lords and running a few side businesses.

So basically it's legally binding right up to the moment Parliament decides to repeal that Act, and May's SI that made it even more expensive to achieve. There's also some EU stuff that would need to be ignored, or goes away post-Halloween.

Who goes to jail ?

Ideally, anyone who uses the phrase 'legally binding', especially if they're politicians who know damn well they can un-bind it. As for jail, I'm thinking the large nacelles on top of windmills would make perfect cells for the scumbags that have profited from this nonsense. Which would include-

Contributing evidence to the report, the National Grid said that just 54 charging stations, placed at appropriate points along the strategic road network, would mean 99 per cent of drivers in England and Wales would be within 50 miles of a charge point.

Given there's around 32 million cars in the UK, that's only around 600,000 cars per charging station. But that assumes equal distribution, which wouldn't happen. So there'd be massive demand and congestion in & around those 54 stations. And of course the environmental impact of drivers having to take 100 mile detours just to fill up.

But then the NG profits handsomely from 'renewables', so would of course be supportive.

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