UK can’t sustain all these electric cars
ONCE again some green advocate has been allowed to push electricpowered cars unchallenged on Radio Wales. This was on a recent afternoon programme, with no-one to give the opposite view.
When will the truth be told? Electric-powered cars are impossible
in any numbers in the UK because we don’t have the electricity to power them!
Let’s face it, the government wants to shut all fossil fuel power stations to switch to “renewables”, mainly wind energy.
When will it be said that we don’t have the wind energy to light and heat the UK, power its factories, hospitals, hotels and homes, let alone provide the electricity to charge the batteries of millions of electric-powered cars.
As I write, at 7am on January 11, the National Grid website www. gridwatch.templar.co.uk tells me that while UK demand is low at 37.8 GW (because most are still in bed), “filthy”coal is supplying 11%, “evil” nuclear 20%; fossil fuel gas 55%, the “great white hope”, the greenies’ “wonderful wind”, has gone AWOL and decided to provide the whole UK with a laughable 0.69GW, or a princely 1.8%.
Of course, as daily demand rises up to 5pm today, if the wind stays down, the percentage of supply will plummet to 1%, or less.
Yet this wind energy is meant to ultimately power millions of electric cars, as well as everything else. What a joke.
Government minister Michael Gove wants to scrap the manufacture of petrol and diesel cars in the UK.
By the way, if an electric car with a 150-mile range gets caught up in an unexpected two-hour traffic jam on a motorway, how does it move with a flat battery? And what happens when there are hundreds of such cars in the same traffic jam?
“Push electric cars” will become the operative words, literally. LJ Jenkins, Cardigan