Launch of electric Austin

[Ivor Hawkins]

Fascinating to see the different views of the electric Austin and with that in mind, take a look at this:


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[Tony Griffiths]

Fascinating to see the different views of the electric Austin and with that in mind, take a look at this:

Very interesting and what a shame. In addition, who would want to invest in the UK with the highest energy costs in the world, together with a new and vast raft of measures that appear to discourage employment? The only advice would be to move to the USA and take advantage of their can-do attitude where electricity is 1/4 the cost and gas 1/5th. Sobering report: https://iea.org.uk/were-number-one-in-un...ectricity/
Oh well. The hope is that a new government will be in place by 2030 and Net Zero abolished.

[Bluebird7]

Net Zero ,is a myth. a bit like lead balloons, chocolate teapots & anything between Liz Truss's ears !!!!!

[andrew34ruby]

Fascinating to see the different views of the electric Austin and with that in mind, take a look at this:

Very interesting and what a shame. In addition, who would want to invest in the UK with the highest energy costs in the world, together with a new and vast raft of measures that appear to discourage employment? The only advice would be to move to the USA and take advantage of their can-do attitude where electricity is 1/4 the cost and gas 1/5th. Sobering report: https://iea.org.uk/were-number-one-in-un...ectricity/
Oh well. The hope is that a new government will be in place by 2030 and Net Zero abolished.

Why does anyone want Net Zero to be abolished?  Expensive electricity and gas are good. Increase the prices enough and people will be forced to change to a better sustainable lifestyle. If worldwide we could get people to consume less goods it might be enough to slow down global warming.
Unaffordable electricity is good!

[Ivor Hawkins]

When the country can afford net zero and the rest of the industrial world follows suit, I will support it, in the meantime, the UKs entrepreneurial and creative skills will suffer, Lister Cars being a prime example.

[Bluebird7]

One way to 'Save the Planet' would be stopping people like Jeff Bezos/Amazon selling millions of tons of cheap chinese made crap then filling containerships of said crap, then sailing it around the planet, with most of it ending up in landfill or my wife cupboards !!!!

[Howard Wright]

Serious thread drift.

Old adage….don't discuss politics or religion. Personally I think that should apply to this forum. Others might disagree.

Cheers

Howard

[Reckless Rat]

+1 from me.

[Duncan Grimmond]

Politics aside, I had an Amazon account for a very short period until I discovered that working practices for their employees was appalling. Closed the account and now do my best to avoid stuff being delivered by underpaid van drivers. If I can, I force myself to wait until the next trip into town but it's so eeeasy...
My drive to the workshop (now gone) passed a depot for parcel dispatch and at the wrong time of day there were regularly 30 or 40 saloon cars and small vans in the yard and spilling onto the lane, each with a trolley cage full of parcels which drivers have to sort into delivery order to their patch. I wonder if they get an allowance for doing this or are they paid per item?
One afternoon last week I spotted 4 different delivery vans in the village (population less than 750). The times of British Rail with a goods depot for British Road Services were obviously the halcyon days of my dim and distant youth

[Ivor Hawkins]

Back on track, I applaud the guy for giving it a go, when you see what has happened to many of the world’s leading marques, like Aston Martin and Alfa Romeo, making SUVs instead of beautiful, stylish sports cars, I think the outcome for the Austin brand might have been a lot worse!