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I'd share in your challenge to that chart. Albatross and many sea fish not on it are the most efficient of all. Include all the rider's effort in maintenance, including puncture repairs, and bikes aren't quite as good as they superficially look. .

I don't disagree on that John, I'm rather despairing of British behaviour, even more so since the Brexit vote to leave the EU. Jacob Rees Mogg's Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill doesn't help when it's specifically designed to make it very difficult to ever get back into the EU and...

I posted that because each positive I mentioned was met with a negative response. For example you see HS2 as spreading higher housing costs northwards, true. But you fail to mention the accompanying improvements in the life of the people living in that higher priced housing. We've been...

As I posted, the future. Things do change, albeit very slowly in Britain. .

You really are an incredibly negative person. I don't disagree, but there is a big positive aspect to what you say. Of course. Since the collapse of the Central Rail project long ago, HS routes would always be about freight as well, especially now ic powered road use is being gradually...

HS2 and the like are the future, mainland Europe is ready now. High speed trains can replace all internal flying and much of the car roads use. .

No, just cars, though light vans and trucks are encouraged to go that way. There will still be potential for them in many different areas. The military can't expect convenient charging points as they advance into a country! Then there's farming, construction and remote mining machinery. The...

There's no confusion in the UK, sale of new ic only cars banned 2030 on, new ic hybrids banned 2035 on. There is no legal discrimination whether diesel or petrol. Norway intends to be first in 2025 by banning all new ic cars but that's not in law yet. However, there ic car sales have dropped...

I think it will be quite a long while before there's a big problem with finding an ic fuel station. Most of the reduction has already taken place as the operators closed the smaller outlets, concentrating on the larger ones with grocery and other outlets, meaning some 6,000 now from the...

Here's a map of chargers available to Teslas showing Gretna and it's one charger location arrowed in yellow. Any e-car driver should do their homework when embarking on a trip to a remote place at peak travel times. Doing that would mean they could have used any of th alternatives part way...

Indeed, Volvo are saying the same too, and others are announcing termination years between 2025 and 2030. I foresee a very poor choice of ic cars in 2029, so buyers shouldn't leave a last chance buy too late. .

A very silly article by an ignorant man. He doesn't seem to realise that a number of manufacturers have announced they are going to cease IC car production well before the deadline, thus showing how well prepared they are. Two major manufacturers have said during 2025, five years before the...

Indeed, I don't see Charles as ever being a popular king for anyone. And as for William, he is in serious need of a personality transplant. A dull looking zombie, he's simply cloning Charles's environmental obsessions with his Earthshot campaign, which is about as inspiring to the general...

It wouldn't worry me in this modern age since both still have free choice. The eldest can choose to abdicate in favour of the younger as Edward VIII did in favour of his brother Albert, who chose to accept and be called King George VI. .

Not at all their assumption. Harry has written a partial autobiography as a way of coping with his mental ill health, which William certainly won't draw attention to. It's the media who are the initial villains in seeking sensation to report and the public who lap up this stuff who are as...

Hydro electric to power the printing presses. Powering them individually mechanically wouldn't have been practical. .

He's a Osteopath, by law having to be registered with the General Osteopathic Council to practice here and also needing to re-register every year. Not a doctor in terms of the General Medical Council, but a doctor in the same looser sense that my dentist is also entitled to call himself a...

If we are still using tanks, since both modern missile warfare and guerilla warfare so often renders them useless. Seen long ago in the Russian occupation of Afghanistan, again in Basra, Iraq where even civilians stopped our tanks, and most recently in Russia's attack on Ukraine. All the old...

Even England too. I remember one very large printing and publishing company who historically had their works entirely powered by hydro power from the River Wey. They even still employed the engineer who maintained the installation. When I asked why they weren't still doing it despite the...

Not doing so good there either, it's amazing how quiet the whole issue of self driving cars has gone since Musk admitted to the US transportation board that his system was only level 2. He's now trying to mislead the public in another way by calling it "Full Driving Experience". It's certainly...