Well, when you let the government control your life, and then allow a doomsday cult to infiltrate and control the government, you have no room to complain
Petrol cars ‘rationed to meet eco targets’
Car makers are rationing sales of petrol and hybrid vehicles in Britain to avoid hefty net zero fines, according to one of the country’s biggest dealership chains.
Robert Forrester, chief executive of Vertu Motors, said manufacturers were delaying deliveries of cars until next year amid fears they will otherwise breach quotas set for them by the Government.
This means someone ordering a car today at some dealerships will not receive it until February, he said.
At the same time, Mr Forrester warned manufacturers and dealers were grappling with a glut of more expensive electric vehicles (EVs) that are “not easily finding homes”.
Manufacturers are having to play games because of government mandates, meaning some people who need a vehicle cannot get one for a while. Unless they want an expensive EV which will be tough to recharge, considering how many in the urbanized areas live in essentially townhomes and apartments with no garages.
He said: “In some franchises there’s a restriction on supply of petrol cars and hybrid cars, which is actually where the demand is.
“It’s almost as if we can’t supply the cars that people want, but we’ve got plenty of the cars that maybe they don’t want.
“They [manufacturers] are trying to avoid the fines. So they’re constraining the ability for us to supply petrol cars in order to try and keep to the government targets.”
You know how in many vehicles they have an auto engine idle, where it sounds like the engine is turning off? Some are more odious than others, but, regardless, that is not for you, the consumer. That’s so manufacturers can report slightly better fuel economy per vehicle, which ads up to avoid, or at least limit, fines and fees from some wacko state governments. You cannot permanently turn them off. This mandate is way worse, with government forcing dealers to limit their earning power and consumers not getting what they want to purchase.
But the scheme has prompted stark warnings from bosses at major brands, such as Vauxhall owner Stellantis and Ford, which have said they cannot sacrifice profits by selling EVs at large discounts indefinitely.
Instead, they have previously warned they may be forced to restrict petrol car supplies to artificially boost their ZEV mandate performance.
Well, hey, lots of you Brits voted for the Warmists in your government. Will you finally see the light? If you do, will you be able to do anything about it? Considering the cops come and arrest people for mean tweets and preaching Christianity in public (but, not Islam), you might have a tough time.
The UK is a lost country.
It is undergoing a truly 1984-type cultural revolution that will soon put the country into the ranks of Iranian-style authoritarianism.
As many have talked about in the US, the USA is also trying this same craziness, and the police have a strong hand in bashing heads at the behest of those who would be kings of the Anthills they oversee.
Personal freedom is under attack. Rather than cutting the snake head off……..IE THE INTERNET….they are trying to cut the body off (the people who are duped by the internet).
You see the internet can still exist. It just needs not to have the ability to let people post their thoughts. Can you imagine that in the 1950s and 60s, when television or radio became so popular, everyone with a radio or TV could post their thoughts about everything imaginable? Interrupt your favorite show or song? Make their own movies and TV and have their garage band screaming on the airwaves?
This blog, for instance, is just a microcosm of what is wrong with the internet. The op posts his thoughts, the commenters respond, and a cesspool ensues. That is the internet. There is nothing redeemable about it.
Commerce can still be conducted by allowing every citizen to post their insurrectionist ideas(those ideas are all subjective, of course, depending on who is reading each idea).
The internet needs to be drastically changed, or the world will fall into a dystopian 1984. Some will like that, as long as the dystopia falls in line with their mantra or political or social ideas. However, what of the other half of the world that totally disagrees with those values?
Right now, China has thousands of fake accounts sowing discord among Americans. They don’t care if Harris or Trump wins. They want the USA to collapse from within. And we are allowing them to continue pushing while in their country, that form of expression lands you a death sentence.
Parliament is sovereign, so 50%+1 vote and they can enact ANY law they want. Add in the same part controls the Administration and you have a recipe for the disaster we are seeing. Pile on top of that the spineless courts and police who thought not being called racist was more important than 1,000s of girls being sexually abused but Pakis…
ChuckII can but won’t refuse his assent to the green laws because he is a True Believer too.