ROADS POLLUTION HEALTH ISSUE IS JUST A COVER FOR THE CO2 REDUCTION NONSENSE

Look at this chart showing which vehicles produce the most nitrogen oxides and you can see clearly that petrol vehicles (8%) produce far less than diesels (37%), and yet the government want to phase out both at the same time. They know the public are much more concerned by possible health issues and so they hope they will think that petrol and diesel are both equally bad.

The announcement to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel engine cars in 2040 is going to hang over future governments with increasing fear as the date draws nearer. What if electric car sales fail to take off, what next? Will they increases tax on petrol and diesel to give people a nudge? And what if there is an early big uptake of electric vehicles? Then we will find the electricity grid under increasing strain as more and more home charging goes on. We might well find the lights start going out and power cuts become the norm. Then we may find that our batteries are not charged for work - in fact they may even remove charge from them to "balance out" the grid. Motorists will not be very happy, to put it mildly. But this government need not worry. They will be long gone before all this could happen.