Powerful questions

I HAVE some concerns about a lot of things, and I hope someone out there can explain them for me.

1. How can we get rid of petrol cars by 2030 when we don’t have enough electricity for general use let alone the enormous amount, we will need for charging cars?

2. If we get rid of petrol vehicles, how do we transport food, water and all the other things we rely on trucks to move around?

3. How do people travel around on holidays etc, if we only have electric vehicles?

4. I don’t believe that electric vehicles have the power to tow anything, let alone a caravan?

5. I believe that it takes about an hour to recharge an electric vehicle, can you imagine the queues at service stations? And the amount of time taken out of the working day just waiting to refuel? Can we afford the loss of working time?

6. These vehicles will have a very bad effect on tourism, everyone will go to closer places and never be able to drive to the likes of Broome and Uluru.

7. If they are persisting on electricity for all power, why don’t they put rechargers on the cars? We have perpetual motion, so why not have the car generate its own power like a dynamo generates light for bikes? Surely we have the technology to invent this?

8. Electric vehicles are not environmentally friendly. What do we do with the batteries when they are spent? The greens are quiet about this. Lithium is a toxic substance.

9. Why can’t we use coal for generating power if we would apply super dooper filters to stop the waste going to atmosphere?

10. Why don’t we use existing technology to burn rubbish in nonpolluting furnaces, which in turn can produce power?

11. Why are our elected politicians replying to legitimate questions with the phrase “I am not here to talk about that”? Yes, you are Mr Politician. We elected you and you are expected to tell us what we want to know, not only answer the questions you want to answer. We need reporters who are not afraid to get the questions answered.

12. Anyone having used a hospital or had a serious illness in the past few years would know that our hospitals and medical care has gone to hell in a hand basket. Why?

13. Medical insurance continues to go up, with less coverage and bigger out of pocket expenses, even though they made larger profits during the pandemic. Why? There should be NO out of pocket costs with the amount of premiums they charge. Lorraine Jones, Charlemont