Amusingly, the influx of EU nurses from 2010 onwards was actually a result of anti-immigrant feeling: David Cameron took nursing off the shortage occupation list for visas because he thought the public didn't want so many foreign nurses, so trusts were forced to look to the EU, since they had FoM...
How do EVs help the environment if much of the electricity to charge them is produced using fossil fuels?
Depends on the fuel. Vehicle efficiency. Power plant efficiency
1 litre of petrol is 8.9 kwh / 2.3 kg of CO2 1 litre of diesel is 10 kwh / 2.7 kg CO2.
So the ~ 550 miles I get out of ~ 50 litres (500 kwh) of diesel produces 135 kg of CO2 - Give or take
4 miles/kg CO2.
How many miles does an EV get out of a kg of CO2 produced ?
That's increasing every year as renewables increase, surely?
What you need is called a Well To Wheels Calculation. This is a the calculation of CO2 emitted from the start of energy production to the actual driving on the road.
To be honest though, before worrying about subsidising electric cars, a very simple first step to reducing carbon emissions and diesel imports would be to electrify the remainder of the railway network. Or at least, the main lines and the heavily used branch lines. It seems mad to me that we don't have wires on the whole of the Midland Main Line, the Great Western main line to Swansea and Plymouth, the Valleys lines, the Cross Country route, the North Wales line and the Marches line. Or indeed the Highland and Edinburgh-Dundee-Aberdeen lines. Fort William and Oban might be more marginal but that line does carry a fair amount of freight.
OK, so in some places low bridges and tunnels present a problem, but they're not beyond the wit of man to solve. If they could run wires through the Severn Tunnel I'm sure they could find a solution to the tubular bridges at Conwy.
But every time we try and electrify railways, somebody finds an exciting new way to cock things up.
We already have them - in Wales!. The new metro trains introduced on Rhymney line are tri-mode. Will run on electric under the wires north of Cardiff - switch to battery where difficult to electrify eg Caerphilly Tunnel - and fully diesel south of Cardiff which is not yet electrified.
To say the cases of Bryson & Scott are entirely unrelated to the #GRRBill is nonsense. Both the policy that led to the debacle & the bill result from gender identity ideology & the bizarre notion that we must accept any man’s declaration that he’s a woman.
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Who’s at it again is you, trying to shut down debate.
How’s that going?