Didn’t oil company Total buy the biggest EV charging company in the UK. It will be interesting to see how they handle things.
- Mark Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone > On Nov 29, 2020, at 10:10 AM, Lee Hart via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Martin WINLOW via EV wrote: >> The UK government are living in la-la land if they seriously plan to >> ban the sale of fossil-fuelled vehicles in the UK in 9 years time >> *if* they do not *seriously* deal with this very real situation, and >> very quickly. > > Governments are generally good at creating problems; but not so good at > fixing them. Governments are usually left to fix problems when no one else is > willing or able to do it. > > Private industry is good at finding solutions. But they charge more for their > services. > > In a case like this, perhaps government is creating a problem so that private > industry will be motivated to solve it. > > This isn't as radical as it seems. It's happened a great many times, with > many technological changes. The government bans some common practice that is > convenient for individuals, but bad for society as a whole. So people invent > new ways to get around it. Why do you think we can no longer dump our sewage > in the river? Or throw our garbage in the street? Or have to buy city water > instead of using our own wells? Or can't burn coal to heat our homes? > > The lack of charging infrastructure should be viewed not as a problem, but as > an opportunity. > > Lee > > -- > Ring the bells that still can ring > Forget your perfect offering > There is a crack in everything > That's how the light gets in. > -- Leonard Cohen, from "Anthem" > -- > Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
