A new service that was recently promoted to me, as a disabled driver but anyone can use it, is Fuelmii. This company will refuel your vehicle at home so there is no need to take it to a petrol station. This can help people like me with limited mobility and who might soon have difficulty filling my own vehicle.
They appear to have been providing the service to commercial vehicle users for some time but have now extended it to private car users in London. I have not yet tried the service but I may soon do so. See https://up.fuelmii.com/
The good news for Shell shareholders is that the company has won an appeal in the Hague against an order to slash its greenhouse gas emissions. This was a case brought by Friends of the Earth and others which may have severely damaged Shell and set a very bad precedent for other oil companies. Trying to stop the use of oil and gas is simply irrational. We will need those products for many years into the future as there is no viable alternative for some applications.
The world is becoming less and less rational. Recent legal cases in the UK where people are being accused of “Non Crime Hate Incidents” and hence get a criminal record – see the Alison Pearson case for example – are truly irrational. Free speech is being lost to a world where the prejudice of the thought police is becoming paramount. I agree with Elon Musk. The UK is losing free speech and you could end up with legal prejudice because you dare to express an opinion on Twitter (“X”) or Facebook on any matter under the sun. We need a new “Bill of Rights” to stop all of this nonsense.
I recently purchased a second-hand Jaguar XE (petrol fueled) which I plan to keep for many years. I normally keep vehicles for 8 to 10 years as that is the most economical way of owning and running cars. I don’t want the production of oil and gasoline to cease. Electric vehicles can be more expensive to buy, insure and run so I am not yet convinced it is time to change to an electric vehicle.
Unfortunately Jaguar have recently made their new product line all electric with large and expensive SUVs. These are not the kinds of vehicles I like to buy. Indeed they seem to have suspended production of all cars for the present.
I feel sad about the way Jaguar has declined of late. I have owned several Jaguars since 1964 when I was a university student and owned a Mk.9 – an enormous luxury saloon – see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_Mark_IX. I would not want you to get the impression I was a wealthy student – It was very cheap to buy but too expensive to run so I sold it quickly. I also later owned several XJ saloon models and the last version of the XJS and XF. The XF in diesel form was a reliable and comfortable saloon but needed updating of late with a hybrid model. The XE model is economical and fast enough (a 2 litre petrol engine) but has a smallish boot. It was also not promoted much so hence the small sales no doubt.
The current Jaguar line-up is not attractive to my mind. Jaguars need to be high-performance, good all-rounders, very comfortable but low cost in comparison with other luxury cars.
Roger Lawson
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Total agreement with your comments on fossil fuels. Your comments were a duplication of my own experience and views.
On a more pressing subject. Our so called democratic process has failed in a very damaging way when a politician as mentally deranged as Stormer can be elected by a failed process. Everyone knows he was elected because a lot of people didn’t bother doing their homework. He technically was voted in, however clearly because many people didn’t vote.? The so called democratic process has failed and needs an overhaul. Unless 90% of people vote, it should constitute a NO VOTE decision.
Clearly this is a void decision and he needs sending back to the desolated island he has been in recent years that leads him to be so far from mainstream society views.
Personally i don’t see this individual in much different light as another despot political leader who is causing much havoc in the northern hemisphere of late. Both have or are forcing their own misguided political views on innocent working class people. ( assets or no assets).
While you might have the possibility to home-charge, what would happen on,a longer run? Most charging points have no cover that you would get in a petrol station or attendant to help and could be a real task for those not nimble-of-foot!
Our always Airborne prime minister does not seem too worried about emissions, that is only a worry for the plebs, the way he sees it!