I DO hope the greenest driver in Keighley gets a warm smug glow as he plugs his £30,000 electric car into the town’s £10,000 charging point – Electric car charge point coming (Keighley News, December 4).
He might reflect on the following. Britain’s electricity grid is about to fail, the greens having closed down the most useful power stations. The only hope to keep the lights on over Christmas is a nationwide network of diesel generators, which will fire up all over the country on demand, without the benefit of particulate filters.
If the greens’ dream of every car being an electric one were to come true, there would nothing left to cook your turkey with.
Our eco-warrior might also consider the vast majority of motorists who simply cannot afford electric cars. The average age of cars on Britain’s roads is more than seven years and rising. This means a huge proportion of drivers will have paid less than £3,000 for their current transport. They can not be tempted by zero road tax, cheap fuel or any degree of pious inclinations.
Councillor Michael Westerman, speaking of the already delayed project, said: “There is no point in having an electric car if you’ve got nowhere to charge it.”
I think his sentence was way to long. “There is no point in having an electric car” would have done perfectly well.
GEORGE SPELLER
Keighley
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