ICE Car Ban Pushed from 2030 to 2035

Excellent reportage as always, Shahzad (long walk there! I am getting used to walking from Eltham to Falconwood Community Centre via my local woodland behind my house just to attend my Wednesday night 7pm start model-making club, Welling Model Club. Keeps me fit or should I say fit to drop! LOL!).

As long as people have freedom of choice to buy whatever car they want, Prime Minister Sunak can fiddle around with the dates (ostensibly to ensure he has another Ace up his sleeve before the forthcoming General Election) but he can go much further: namely scrap the ridiculous ban on petrol and diesel engines altogether! What about all those companies that produce engines and cars for both road and racing usage? There are far more people watching and supporting races with ICE than Formula E. I have no problem with people wanting to watch pseudo-racing cars that sound like a cross between a swarm of wasps or hornets coupled with a demented milk float but I do expect to have freedom of choice to watch and hear Formula cars and saloon racing cars with a real powerful sounding engine! Equally we don’t want to lose the classic car racing events; Goodwood, Brands Hatch, Silverstone, to name but three money makers for all concerned.

Quite a few nations are not doing what our country’s political parties are doing, especially oil producers! According to an old schoolfriend of mine after his latest visit, Paraguay is NOT going to scrap the entire Grand Chaco Oilfields, their major export income, just for the eco-idiots (their UN rep sent Greta Thunberg away with a flea in her ear! Something about that they don’t listen to Swedish School Truants with no actual knowledge of viscosity of fuels, oil-based economy etc). They are still going to use petrol and diesel propulsion, coupled with synthetic fuels as I have mentioned before. We should have the common sense and wisdom to do the same and avoid a catastrophic collapse of our own integrated transport infrastructure.

Any party that scraps the petrol and diesel ban, ULEZ and other illicit charges (including ‘pay per mile’), gets rid of unreliable wind turbines and heat pumps (I saw a friend’s plumber brother commencing the ripping out an unreliable Mark 1 Heat exchange pump from a 1968 maisonette and just concentrated on the gas heating in this dual-heated house instead. I was informed that the Mark 2’s are just as unreliable and no change from the ones I was taught about in my 3-year apprenticeship in Plumbing and Sanitation after leaving school!) and backs both freedom of choice and investment in industry will win the next General Election. It is called ‘listening to what the people want’. It is also called ‘Democracy’.

Keep up the good work, Shahzad and hope you enjoyed your constitutional as well!

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