Inevitable

September 20, 2023 Longrider Civil Liberties, General News, misanthropy, Political, Transport 11

To anyone with an IQ bigger than their shoe size, it was obvious that the conflict between ideology and reality would come to a massive head on collision with Net Zero.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced he’s binning a raft of ridiculous green policies as part of his ‘new approach to reach Net Zero’.

The PM took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to set out five areas he wants to scrap as the Government pushes through a different strategy on Net Zero targets which Mr Sunak said were “unnecessary and heavy-handed”.

Above a graphic showing the policies being ditched, a statement on the Prime Minister’s X account read: “We will never impose unnecessary and heavy-handed measures on you, the British people.

“We will still meet our international commitments and hit Net Zero by 2050.”

The big problem has always been the attempt to impose a top down solution. Technological advances don’t work like that. The insistence that we all drive around in milk floats – that are not remotely ecologically friendly – was an example of the hubris of politicians who thought that setting a target would automatically mean compliance. Naturally, the real world intervened. EVs are not and never will be the solution to replacing the ICE. And, frankly, the ICE has plenty of development left in it yet. Indeed, the current ones are far more environmentally friendly than the useless battery powered crap the government is trying to force upon us.

Rishi Sunak has confirmed he will be pushing back a number of net zero targets, including the ban on new petrol and diesel cars to 2035.

As we got closer to that deadline – and bullying manufacturers with fines if they didn’t meet targets unlikely to work if people just won’t buy the EVs – this was inevitable. As we get closer to the new deadline, expect a similar rollback. Targets are always a stupid idea. I saw them fail in the workplace and I fully expected them to fail here and I have not been disappointed.

Mr Sunak argued it “should be the consumer” making the choice about what kind of car they buy, not the Government forcing them through bans.

Well, duh. I am a consumer and nothing will get me to waste my money on a milk float. I don’t want an electric motorcycle either. I like my petrol bikes because they have something that the electric version will never have – character. The sound and feel of a V twin is different to that of a four or a single, for example. An electric motor is just an electric motor and I flatly refuse to buy one. Fining the manufacturer will not affect that, so the idea was always plain nasty.

I did wonder about how people might protest, and things in Wales and London are heating up nicely, with I hope, Ceausescu moments for the likes of Khan and Drakeford. As it turned out, it would appear that sitting back and waiting for reality to kick in was the solution. Sunak has kicked it into the long grass. Yes, I know, Sir Kneelalot is going to reverse any rollback, but he will have to face reality as well. And the reality is that the Net Zero agenda is so utterly insane, no one who isn’t psychologically abnormal would expect it to ever work. What we have had is a bunch of mentally arrested, egotistical, intellectually challenged individuals trying to wish reality to bend to their will. Well, reality is not playing. They aren’t God and they are about to find out.

Mr Sunak said Britain has not had a proper debate about the sacrifices and trade-offs net zero will require, and that we have “stumbled into a consensus about the future of our country that no one seems to be happy with”.

Then it’s not a consensus, you fuckwit.

11 Comments

  1. Yep, the internal combustion engine, undefeated champ for more than 120 years, sees off another laughable pretender.

    It will see off the hindenburg – sorry, hydrogen – and fuel cell pretenders as well. It’s just SO damned easy to build, operate and maintain, and the incredibly convenient and energy dense fuels won’t be going anywhere in a hurry either.

    Oh how I will relish the wailing and gnashing of teeth!

  3. I’ve used this quote several times, and I’ll use it again:

    “What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.
    ~ Thomas Sowell”

    …and the Elite Global Consensus is pretty much politically left (for the little people, but not themselves, naturally). So I predict that until we get a change in the nature of the Elite there will always be political pressure to get back in line.

    But the more they witter on, convinced about their own knowledge and virtue, the more they appear to be dressed in the Emperor’s new clothes, i.e. taken for fools.

  4. “We will never impose unnecessary and heavy-handed measures on you, the British people.”

    Shouldn’t that be “We will never again impose…” ? And in any case who is going to be believe that when in the next breath he says:

    “We will still meet our international commitments and hit Net Zero by 2050.”

    The two statements are contradictory.

    “It should be the consumer” making the choice about what kind of car they buy, not the Government forcing them through bans.”

    Which is obvious to everyone other than politicians. To me this apparent Damascus conversion is too little too late. If he really believed any of the stuff that he is now saying he would have been stating it clearly from the outset like the rest of us, you know, the sane people.

  5. ’…no one who isn’t psychologically abnormal would expect it to ever work…’

    Sadly, such folk are all that ever seem to go into politics these days…

  7. I hope the conversion is real, but I fear just electioneering.
    Still, Labour has already been triggered into stating that if elected, they WILL conficate your boilers and cars, so that’s a plus. And anything that gets the opposition stating that if elected, they will repeal the laws of thermodynamics is an open goal.

  8. He needs to differentiate themselves from Liebour as we are getting around to election time. Both are fucking us up the ass, Sunak is just using a smaller dick.

  9. It is ludicrous to talk about international commitments when China and India are exempt, even if CO2 was actually a problem, reducing our output which results in us having to buy stuff from countries with worse emission standards than ours is just idiocy.

    “A consensus about the future of our country that no one seems to be happy with.”

    Yes I picked up on that one, that would be the exact opposite of a consensus. Or would that be a consensus among the halfwits in Parliament that everyone disagrees with but them?

  10. I mean, its clear that they would love to be able to force this shit on us, but absent giving every poor household (which is a lot) a small fortune in cash to replace their existing gas boilers with something which costs more (capital AND operating costs) to deliver worse performance, what could they honestly do?

    At least they’re skewering Liebore with a point that plays to Tory strengths and Liebore weaknesses “This crap is worse than what we currently have and is completely unaffordable to the vast majority of UK households”, it shoots the knees out from under Sir Kneel and the rest of the Liebore fuckwits.

    No doubt Sir Kneel will witter on about international commitments and all that jazz, but without the money to pay for it, it ain’t happening anyway.

    Same with Milk Floats. Those that can afford £50,000 for a virtue signalling toy have already bought one. Those who can’t, never will and trying to force them doesn’t change the money in their bank accounts, so it doesn’t matter if it’s 2030, 2035 or 2090, until they’re as cheap as ICE cars and have equivalent distance / refuelling time / costs, it won’t happen.

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