Illogical energy policy

sir – Mike Bridgman (Letters, January 25) rightly identifies the Government’s hubristic net zero policy as responsible for discouraging the poor from heating their homes.

As well as central heating, a great advance for all classes in the 20th century was the personal mobility provided by motor cars. This, too, will be made unaffordable to the less well off if electric cars are foisted on us. The chairman of Kia Motors UK, Paul Philpott, has said that car makers are finding it difficult to bring affordable smaller vehicles to market because of the high cost of batteries.

Meanwhile, National Grid is urging households to save electricity at peak times but Government policy is to urge us all to move from fossil fuels to electricity. It doesn’t make sense. Michael Staples

Seaford, East Sussex

sir – How can the Government justify continuing to impose the windfall tax on gas producers (report, January 25)? British wholesale gas prices have now returned to where they were before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and windfall profits are not being realised.

The energy profits levy, which means an overall tax rate of 75 per cent on profits from UK operations, is merely stifling investment. Investment would allow more gas production, improve energy security and further decrease the price paid by consumers. Murray Chancellor

Alton, Hampshire

sir – I’m astonished that Ferrari plans to add the roaring sound of an engine to an electric car (report, January 25).

Surely it is utterly selfish to impose unnecessary noise on others for the ridiculous satisfaction the owners of such cars may get. Any sensible government will ban such devices. Francis Hunt

Kenilworth, Warwickshire