On-street chargers are still free, motorway fast chargers no longer are. But absolutely none of these are permanent, they’re incentives for early adopters while EVs are still too expensive to make economical sense for most people. Was just detailing one of the things the government is doing as MrEarl asked for...Think the free charging ended last month. I would not assume any of the other incentives to be permanent.
I am not trying to solve global warming etc, it would just be nice to not to have to inhale mouthfuls of diesel fumes everydayI am a month back from South Africa with a population of around 56 million. Big 3L and 4L diesel everywhere.Plastic bags etc everywhere etc etc.
A while back was in Beijing pollution unreal. China opening coal mines on a weekly basis.
All for the environment do have children but until this is tackled at a much higher comprehensive level cycling to work in the Irish weather, changing a few light bulbs is not going to do much.
I know and do my bit recycling etc. But have to say the places I go just makes me feel anything I do is a complete waste of time.
Best in the class might be popular but go to Beijing or the likes of South Africa and ask are we really kidding ourselves.
No I dont know the answers but I do know as it stands were wasting our time. Depressing.
Like the financial crisis the best outcome can be some external (and less polictised) body telling our politicians what to doA few areas in Dublin nearly breached EU air pollution limits in 2019, if that happens legislation will force councils etc to come up with a plan to solve it ASAP. So maybe we can hope for a bit more pollution this year to give the government a bit of a kick!
The same EPA report also advises carrying children if near busy roads to avoid pollution. Pretty astounding for the EPA to be recommending something like that, while we twiddle our thumbs and take little to no action.
100%There’s certainly an argument that when it comes to climate change the whole world needs to weigh in to make a big difference. But when it comes to air pollution it’s different; pollutants like NOx, PM, benzene etc are all highly localised (like down to a few meters in some cases!). If all vehicles switched to zero emission in Dublin City centre say, it would make virtually no difference to claim to change, but it would make night and day difference to localised air pollution and hence the people of Dublin.
I am not trying to solve global warming etc, it would just be nice to not to have to inhale mouthfuls of diesel fumes everyday
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