Agree Glos Guy,
Bribery and coercion is never going to work long term and does little to reduce emissions. Volvo, for example, has said that nearly half of BIK incentivised PHEV business users never plug in. Thus incentivising an extra heavy, resource hungry, ice car. Insanity. Was reading that during that long spell of stratocumulus- aka anticyclonic gloom- renewables fell to 3% of grid demand. Majority supply by burning LNG gas imported from USA and Qatar – by diesel ship. You couldn’t make it up. Wood chips from the pacific coast forests for Drax? Another eco con. Converting the calorific energy of gas to electricity losses @30%. Transmission of said electrical energy another 30% Battery storage and transformer/inverter/ rectifier some more.
