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Default More on electric cars.

In article , Dave Plowman (News)
scribeth thus
In article
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harry wrote:
A lot depends on where the price of petrol goes in the next few years.


Natural gas - which provides most of our electricity -



Not quite Dave its still King Coal, nuclear a 8 GW base load and the
rest filled in with Gas plus the of bit of Hydro and the ever fickle
wind;!...

http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/


tends to track the
price of crude. Or the other way round. And although there is currently
no taxation on the fuel for an electric car, you can be sure this will
change if they become common. Probably in the form of road use taxation.


Indeed thats a bigger cert than electric cars becoming an everyday
thing..

Which won't happen till they get the prime mover power sorted out..
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Tony Sayer