May Comment 2023

 

May Comment 2023

 

When governments impose their decisions against market demands they fail because the population does not agree with their decision and big business does not agree with it either. When big business does agree it is because they can generate more profit from it. Lots of information is stopped from getting to the public and this relates to Euro compliance to emissions. Does anyone remember the lean burn petrol engine? It was so lean that a 1600cc car engine that would do about 35mpg with a lean burn engine could achieve 75 mpg plus around thirty years ago. Savings for the average punter would have been enormous and exactly what we need now with the cost of fuel. The development of the lean burn engine was stifled because of the Eurocrats dogma with emissions. Not CO2 but the nitrous oxide produced from these engines. Because you get more miles for the same amount of fuel you clearly reduce the CO2 emissions but using less fuel is clearly not in the interests of the people whom sell it so the excuse of nitrous oxide emissions was used to kill the development even though the exhaust could have been cleaned up. I see the same monosyllabic thinking behind the thrust of governments with electric cars for the masses. One big problem is the cost of these cars. The second hand electric car market has not being going long enough for electric cars to have bottomed out and to show the real cost of an electric car. How many years for £30,000 to reach zero? I think less time than a comparative ICE (Internal Combustion Engine). I can never see an electric car becoming a useable classic. My El Cid is worth more now than I paid for it.

 If Europe are to ban ICE in 2030 then why is Euro6 compliant engine development still being pursued? Is it because Germany can’t go completely electric? I, for one of many, will not be going electric. I don’t use my cars or bikes very much since Covid so an electric car permanently on charge would be a really significant electricity cost for a pensioner and I reckon with failing memory I would forget to put it in charge so when I needed to use it I couldn’t. Having a gallon of fuel around is a great stop gap for me and my ageing ICEs.

 Information from the Petrol Revolt website.

Everyone knows of the con from all the manufacturers who produce diesel engined cars and that they have fiddled the exhaust emissions with their plug in electronic assessment of engine performance giving completely false information. They all have to pay compensation for this but those figures are still with the DVLA and Genghis Khan is relying on them for ULEZ. All the diesel cars should have to pay ULEZ because what is in the log book is not correct. The car industry is getting away with murder if you believe in the TFL 4000 deaths from emissions. What other false information is being used? All of the legislation and statistics that are quoted needs to be questioned. Any government figures need to be looked at in the light of what they want to show and what the government wants to tell you. Which may or may not be true? Let us have a look at inflation. The Office of National Statistics (Government info) says that the rate of inflation if falling. My wallet tells me otherwise. We are not in a recession. Who would notice when food banks are so short of food because the poor can no longer give away food. The only people who claim everything is satisfactory are those who have so much money they would not know what a recession looks like and that includes the politicians. It is about time they threw in the towel before there is nothing left of the country. This reminds me of a nautical tale I remember from my childhood; a sailor was lost at sea for months and when his boat was recovered all that was found was a set of false teeth and a note; I was so hungry, in desperation, I began eating myself. The hunger was all consuming.

I see the greed of those in power will achieve the same for the country.