Cars now like plane cockpits

It appears the jury has been out and decided the motoring lobby is in fact a danger to the planet and has decided to ban the sale of diesel and petrol cars in the UK from 2035.

I need personal transport, but I do not consider myself part of the motoring lobby but an unfortunate pawn in the lack of competition between car manufacturers for sales and profit.

Nothing wrong with profit; nothing would get done were it not for the notion that we could get out more than the effort we put in. Profit is a measure of approval by purchasers of a seller’s efforts.

Hopefully car producers’ efforts are competitively priced, honest, technically competent, long-lasting, and designed to be easily and reasonably cheaply repairable.

A monopoly of makers has seen that very few of these requirements are met. We all know that excessive and unnecessary complications have been built in, and parts are not repairable but must be replaced as large and costly pre-made units.

It is next to impossible for a conscientious and mechanically disposed car owner to maintain and adjust his modern car.

You can hardly call car makers honest when they build in exhaust emission-cheating software into heir software.

The EU has led to this situation, pulled by the nose by car makers to insist on ever more complex installations.

Driving a car now is like sitting in an aeroplane cockpit, with screens to distract you from the road instead of knobs you can reach and adjust.

Diesel fuel is very energy rich. It takes 30 seconds to put 20 litres of the golden concentrated distilled sunshine into a car. When this is