25th July 2021

The on-off Olympics in Tokyo finally started, with our team GB cyclist Thomas falling off his bike yesterday. Like in the football Euros, all seems par for the course, so I took a look at the news instead. I read that all internal combustion engines in the UK are to become extinct in 2030. Madness. A date but with no plan. How will the millions living in high rise flats here, or those having to park streets away, charge up their vehicles? What happens when you run out of juice on the M40? Can’t see the AA arriving with a giant generator in tow. And how will the national grid produce enough electricity for this enormous increase in demand when power cuts are notoriously frequent already? How will the government generate replacement funds for the lost £28 billion p.a. received from fuel taxes? In Bham in the ‘50s, we had thick yellow smog from coal burning factories, so why is the world allowing a large country like China to be not only highly reliant on coal but to develop a further 247 gigawatts of coal fired energy? What’s the point of tiny Britain going green when another, much larger, country is blasting all that smog into the atmosphere? So, will I be getting an electric car? Like Olympian Thomas, I’ll just have to get on my bike…