JonnyF

An electric truck would be about as much use as a chocolate teapot, that's why manufacturers are slow to make them. They're OK for occasional use as a weekend shopping trolley. Assuming they don't also go bankrupt like NETA. https://autopostglobal.com/car-news-industry/article/58040/#google_vignette

She probably knows most of them from her time spent in customer services, sorry I mean as an "Economist". 😄 Most poeple who lie to get a job quit pretty quickly once they realize they are chronically out of their depth. Not our Rachel, she just bursts into tears and then carries on as normal.

Yep, instead of ruining the countryside with ugly, wildlife killing windfarms that end up as landfill, they'd be better off planting trees.

So you are excluding many forms of ICE vehicles to make the percentage of EV sold look bigger. 😅 As I showed, growth is slowing, which part of this didn't you understand? Like any new "exciting" product on the market with massive incentives there was a rush at the start. Now the incentives are withdrawn and the hype is over and reality sets in, growth is falling. Car manufacturers in many markets are being forced by government mandates to increase the share of EV's they make. Many offer huge subsidies on EV's. Why? Because if left to market forces without interference and Chinese dumping of cars on foreign markets often at a loss (hence NETA's bankruptcy), most people wouldn't buy them and they know it. And why are you linking to stories about Cannabis shops? Oh actually, that explains quite a lot... 😄

Not everything you disagree with is hatred. Your dogmatic thinking is typical of the left. You believe something therefore everyone else should be forced to go along with it. If it offends them, screw 'em. You are only inclusive and respectful of those who share your beliefs. You believe in diversity of everything except opinion. Anyone who doesn't agree with your ideology is a hater/racist/sexist/Islamaphobic/transphobic etc. A very narrow way of thinking. The left are exactly what they accuse others of being.

You're making up the numbers. https://www.mreport.co.th/en/news/statistic-and-ranking/103-thailand-auto-sales-2024 Actually it's slowing as the incentives dry up and people realize how inconvenient they are. https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/motoring/2932786/ev-overview-shows-sales-growth-slowing People are wising up. They hear stories from friends who have bought them, or in my case, sister in law. Soon your neighbours will be asking "Why it take 1 hour to charge and only go 350km?" before trading it in for 50% of the purchase price and buying an Isuzu truck.

It was clear that I was referring to and successfully refuting the first part of the sentence. But you already knew that.

Maybe not all you need to know. I don't think Muslims are too keen either. https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/sam-morsy-rainbow-laces-armband-34229908 But hey, let's all bow down to the dogma of the alphabet people. If people get run over by a truck, that's their problem.

What a stupid idea. Drivers are conditioned to look for the standard zebra crossing. It would be easy for them (especially if colour blind) to mistake this for something else and knock someone over, and then likely get prosecuted for dangerous driving all because some Liberal working at a local authority wants to prove how Woke they are. Plus not everyone support trans ideology and they should not be forced to have this forced on them as they go about their daily business.

Please quote where I declared that part specifically to be wrong. Oh, that's right - I didn't. Another strawman. You're really on form today Chomps. 😂 It would be foolish to declare the result while the game is still in progress.

An excellent summary. Although I would argue it is more like a cult, a Doomsday cult to be more specific. "The end is nigh" etc. They even had the child deity until Greta got too old, got bored of the climate alarmism and defected to the Pro Hamas/Pro Palestine cause. It's no coincidence that they are all socialists. As a wise woman once said, "Global warming provides an marvellous excuse for global socialism".

Thanks. At least I am consistent. Nice strawman. I see you are also consistent. 😃 As you know, I didn't say Trump added them, I said the US has tariffs on Russia. More specifically, I was disproving Tug's post that there were no US tariffs on Russia. Maybe best to try to disprove things that I actually said in future Chomps...

The writing was pretty much on the wall for the UK by 2005. I left in 2006. Looking at the state of it now it was the best thing I ever did.

Classic Guardian. I'm surprised they didn't run with "How 7/7 bombs blew the mask off the racist Islamaphobic gammon" 😃.

Details are here Chomps. https://www.cbp.gov/trade/programs-administration/entry-summary/russia-column-2-rates-duty

Do they? Please provide stats to back this up. What percentage of these people drive EV's compared to ICE? And I don't mean one picture of some celebrity Liberal in a Tesla from before Musk went all MAGA. I don't believe I claimed that, but feel free to quote me if I did. I do have a very busy life though, working at 2 locations 50 kms apart in the Bangkok vicinity and running a farm in Korat, racking up quite a few miles. So spending 45 minutes charging an EV that only has half the range of my Hybrid that can be filled in 2 minutes doesn't seem overly convenient to me. Hardly a step forward. More like 2 steps back. If you are retired and only go to Tesco once a week they might be OK, assuming they don't go bankrupt like NETA.

Feel free to disprove any of my points. Yes, without any facts I believe that would be your best course of action.

Millions more wasted on the net zero fantasy. Lucky 2 tear Rachel from accounts has plenty of spare cash to play around wi... oh, wait a minute...

Wrong again.

Just like the BBC's own fact checking service, Logically provided the best facts Liberals could buy. https://www.opindia.com/2022/05/logically-the-left-leaning-disinformation-platform-that-sponsored-rahul-gandhis-cambridge-event-in-london/

What a lovely group. They should have tariffs imposed for human rights abuses alone.

It seems this type of cultural enrichment is not unique to the UK.

230? Got a link for that? https://www.polfed.org/surrey/news/2025/over-55-000-assaults-against-uk-police-officers-in-past-year/

I didn't say it would never come to court. I said they would try to bury it, and they did try to do just that. Just as they buried the actions of the rape gangs out of fear of being called racist and just like they never searched the Manchester bombers backpack out of fear of being called racist. I had full faith in the actions of Farage and Co. forcing the authorities to take action by threatening their own private prosecution. They embarrassed them into taking action. Kudos to Mr Farage. The guy in blue in particular deserves a multiple year prison sentence. This was much more than a hurty tweet. Time to drop the 2 tier nonsense.

It IS an issue. People talking about using apps to book a slot, planning their journey according to where the station is, having to wait 45 minutes to get 50% charge etc. Try that over a Thai national holiday. It would make the trip unbearable for me. In my Camry hybrid I get 1000kms on a tank and I can fill up at any tin roof gas station in 2 minutes in the middle of nowhere so I don't even have to worry about it. Assuming you have a house of course. Millions of people live in condos or houses with no driveway/garage. It doesn't bother me. Why would it? I don't own one. As more and more people buy them, it will become increasingly difficult to find a place to charge them. A line of 5 cars waiting for gas takes 10 minutes max. That could be 3-4 hours of waiting on a busy day if you have an EV. I tested a friends Q4 E-Tron when I was in the UK. Took it to the golf course. Very quick, but utterly soulless. Like driving a dodgem. He said he only uses it for short journeys to the mall or the restaurant, when he goes down to Newquay with the kids he takes his 10 year old 3 series because it's easier. Young kids don't tend to like waiting around in gas stations with nothing to do after 4 hours in the back of a car. As I said, for people with a very specific set of circumstances they might be OK, for people with busy lives they are a pain in the neck. Convenience/time is extremely important to me.