Apparently, Rothbury have been without gas for 24h. Gas board shipped in 1100 electric heaters, which when all plugged in, have taken out their electricity supply too. Nice one... now they've got no power at all.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember snipped-for-privacy@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) saying something like:
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writers seem unable to decide whether Rothbury is a town or a village, but I'd certainly have treated it as a rural location and had more than one source of heating in my house, preferably three. This has kept me warm so far this winter, despite several power cuts.
Since Rothbury has a market charter dating back to 1291 then technically it's a town. But then you'd hardly expect the local journalists to know anything about that.
I know you are joking, but the actual fuel cost of an electric car at current taxation levels is a about a quarter of petrol or diesel costs Or even less.
Power stations are about twice as efficient as IC engines.. which accounts for some of it and then the (lack of) taxation on power station fuel makes it about 1/4 the cost per watt generated...and electric cars are DESIGNED for efficiency from the word go - they have to be.
A typical 100-150 mile 'tank-up' would be about 50Kwh..say £4.50 in todays prices. If using cheap rate, as low as £2.00..
If the taxes on road fuel were applied to the gas coal and oil used in power generation, we would have gone all nuclear a decade ago. And be using electric heatpumps to heat our houses too..
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