Phasing out of petrol & diesel vehicles

[Duncan Grimmond]

I got sick of asking the question that nobody would answer. How much of what comes out of the gas-fired power station reaches the three-pin hole in my wall?
At college in the late 1960s the Physics lecturer claimed that the losses over distance transmission meant that only 13% of the energy developed by coal-fired power stations got through to the (round pin, 15amp!) socket in the house.Has this changed?
Gas is much more easily and efficiently transported around the country with far lower losses.

All that aside, I think that we have to accept that the personal transport of the future is the bicycle.