So, the ACT has the highest uptake of EV's and you claim it also has the highest average incomes and the highest tertiary educated population vs everywhere else. You forget that the ACT also houses the parliament with politicians - the politicians that hand out freebies from taxpayer funds to promote all manner of things like solar panels, windmills, EV's, the notion of climate change and thus net zero policies and even voice campaigns.
That should tell you something about how highest paid and highest educated think and work in the ACT. Remember, it was also claimed that it was the less educated that voted the voice campaign down. Yeah, the dumb people wouldn't know much now would they?? Guess many are smart enough to know when someone tries to dupe them. But even some well known people have doubts about the benefits of EV's:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/03/electric-vehicles-early-adopter-petrol-car-ev-environment-rowan-atkinsonExcerpt:
My first university degree was in electrical and electronic engineering, with a subsequent master’s in control systems. Combine this, perhaps surprising, academic pathway with a lifelong passion for the motorcar, and you can see why I was drawn into an early adoption of electric vehicles.
Electric vehicles may be a bit soulless, but they’re wonderful mechanisms: fast, quiet and, until recently, very cheap to run. But increasingly, I feel a little duped.
.....electric motoring doesn’t seem to be quite the environmental panacea it is claimed to be.
.....proposed a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030. The problem with the initiative is that it seems to be largely based on conclusions drawn from only one part of a car’s operating life: what comes out of the exhaust pipe.
Volvo released figures claiming that greenhouse gas emissions during production of an electric car are nearly 70% higher than when manufacturing a petrol one.A lot of problems are attributed to the lithium battery:
they’re absurdly heavy, huge amounts of energy are required to make them, and they are estimated to last only upwards of 10 years. It seems a perverse choice of hardware with which to lead the automobile’s fight against the climate crisis.Are you sure Mr Atkinson?? By the way don't you just love that mini??
Regarding an estimated existing asset of nearly 1.5 billion cars on the road:
In terms of manufacture, these cars have paid their environmental dues...
...an environmentalist once said to me, if you really need a car, buy an old one and use it as little as possible.Surprise, surprise - a highly educated funny guy 'feeling duped'?? Guessing even the lesser educated can look up dictionaries to find out the meaning of 'being duped'.
Don't need university degrees to know about current stupid, a little bit of common sense will do. AIMO
