Not a good time to be in Rothbury

Wonderful - from an energy company - You couldn't make it up could you?

In message , Andrew Gabriel writes

Doesn't exist any more

It should be avoided lest anyone might confuse it with British Gas

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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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.

Rothbury? Don't they all have hydro turbines in their back gardens?

Guess what will happen when we are all charging our electric cars overnight.

You'll all take one look at your utterly terrifying electricity bills, and decide to walk/cycle/bus/etc instead :-)

#Paul

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..

Ok now my car and the wife's and the daughter's all want 50 Kwh overnight ( along with all the neighbours). Will the local distribution system cope?

No, but the electricity suppliers will soon install a few gas-fired generating stations.

Now it seems they lost their water last night, because of damage to the pipes...

A bit like 'The gas man cometh', innit...