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@KathrynPorter26 @mwt2008 Before I had solar panels with a battery, an EV and a heat pump, I was paying nearly £500 a month in diesel, electricity and gas. Now I pay £45 a month for electricity and a bit of gas for my hob, to run my house, my car and my heat pump. Explain how that £45 is more than £500?
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Rubbish
EVs are more expensive to run than ICE cars almost all the time particularly if you can't charge at home
I can fill my ICE car in bare minutes, and drive for hundreds of miles before filling up again. I can put the heating or ac on, the stereo, the heated seat and steering wheel, the windscreen wipers and any other thing and not worry about the impact on my fuel level
And I can do so knowing that my car doesn't contain highly polluting materials such as rare earth magnets
I am a bit annoyed the government takes half what I pay at the pump in tax but I don't have to worry about being charged for every mile I drive the way EV drivers do (or will soon)
And heat pumps are straight up more expensive because electricity is more expensive so unless you home is extremely well insulated which most aren't, it costs more to run
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If you want to help bring down fuel costs for others, reduce demand.
Oil is priced globally. More drilling here doesn’t stop price spikes.
EVs and heat pumps already cut UK fossil fuel use by 14 million barrels in 2023.
So the most effective thing you can do:
Switch to an EV and / or a heat pump if you can.
Every switch cuts demand, eases prices, and improves energy security.
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
🇬🇧#EV #HeatPump #CostOfLivingCrisis 🇬🇧
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@KathrynPorter26 @mwt2008 Your first word accurately conveyed the contents of the rest of your post.
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@velcro1066 @KateFantom Here's what I don't get, they do the "but where do the minerals for batteries come from?" argument, but wait until they find out where petrol comes from.
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@KateFantom Does she think that heated seats, aircon etc run on fairy dust? Of course they have an impact on fuel levels. Also cobalt is used in the refining of fuels and can't be recovered like it can when batteries are recycled.
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Read this 🤦🏻♂️
Heated seats, heated steering wheel, wipers….
These are the words of someone sucked in by rhetoric but not those of someone that understands.
My car doesn’t have rare earth magnets or materials
Wiper motor
Starter motor
Window regulators
Catalytic converters
Crank angle sensor
Cam angle sensor
You see where this is going 🤦🏻♂️
Kathryn Porter@KathrynPorter26
Rubbish EVs are more expensive to run than ICE cars almost all the time particularly if you can't charge at home I can fill my ICE car in bare minutes, and drive for hundreds of miles before filling up again. I can put the heating or ac on, the stereo, the heated seat and steering wheel, the windscreen wipers and any other thing and not worry about the impact on my fuel level And I can do so knowing that my car doesn't contain highly polluting materials such as rare earth magnets I am a bit annoyed the government takes half what I pay at the pump in tax but I don't have to worry about being charged for every mile I drive the way EV drivers do (or will soon) And heat pumps are straight up more expensive because electricity is more expensive so unless you home is extremely well insulated which most aren't, it costs more to run
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@KateFantom I get it though, some people can't charge at home and public charging can be eyewateringly expensive, but most charging is done at home and solutions are coming out to make this easier for people without drives.
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@KateFantom I will never understand how arguing that driving to a petrol station is more convenient than charging on the drive, or how £45 for 300 miles is cheaper than £45 for 2000 miles.
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@s_sullivan @JohnGoldman @Alan_Couzens In the early stages, the changes come quickly. Alas, not as quickly as they go away when you stop.
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@JohnGoldman @Alan_Couzens I’m genuinely shocked at how fast you adapted. Do you have a previous background in endurance?
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Running consistently changes the way your heart performs.
Age 50.
Resting heart rate: 39.
39!
Down from the 60’s and 70’s.
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@expoens @ChrisMcClung @Alan_Couzens For sure, if you drive those 700 miles too fast, the total energy cost is going to be a lot higher too.
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@ChrisMcClung @Alan_Couzens If you want to drive your car 700 miles every day for three years. Is it a good idea to blow up your engine and suspension on day 5?
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When it comes to your base work, there's no such thing as "junk miles"
There's just miles that you did and miles that you made excuses about.
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@Alan_Couzens Of course, the number of muscle contractions is largely related to distance.
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@Alan_Couzens I think I have realised that the *only* thing that matters is the number of muscle contractions - both total overall and the number done in a single session. And the easier the intensity, the more muscle contractions you can do overall.
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@BenGrahamUK In China's 30%, you need to remember that a good chunk of that is stuff they make for us. Those are our carbon emissions China does on our behalf.
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Britain produces <1% of global CO₂.
China: 30%.
US: 14%.
India: rising fast.
We’ve already cut emissions 50%+ since 1990.
Now we’re paying more for energy, shutting our own gas, and relying on wind/solar which are unreliable.
Even if Britain hit net zero tomorrow, global emissions barely move.
Build nuclear.
Use our oil & gas.
Lower costs.
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@LLBiggers Are you able to point to the bit in the report which says what you claim? The actual report, not just what someone else said...
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Spain’s nationwide blackout was caused by wind and solar losing capacity too fast for the back up generation to turn on. If you think these technologies are the future you’re living in a fantasy world.
Electroverse@Electroversenet
Europe's official grid authority has released its report on the nationwide blackout that hit Spain last year. And while the report treads carefully politically, its data make the cause clear. Wind and solar triggered the collapse. Within the first 80 seconds, Spain lost 2.5 GW of generation, around 10% of its national supply, with every MW of that early loss coming from renewables. Gas and hydro remained stable until the cascade was already underway. The report calls it an unprecedented speed of blackout. This was a textbook inverter chain failure, with renewables dropping so fast that the grid's stabilizers never had time to react. By midday, Spain's grid had virtually no inertia, nothing spinning fast enough to hold frequency steady. But to admit that outright would mean questioning Europe's green transition itself, something the report appears unable to do. So the event is officially described as "a rare local disturbance," rather than what it actually was... A systemic failure of weather-dependent power.
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Marathon training has brainwashed me into believing that running a half marathon on a random Saturday with no crowd, medal, or finisher t shirt is normal.
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@_chris_homer You keep saying net zero is bollocks, but you don't say what it is and therefore what you object to with it. Otherwise it sounds like you're getting mad at a slogan.
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New exploration licenses are effectivley banned. There are billions of barrels of oil. The tax on said oil would be huge, billions. Lots of jobs of created. Increased supply.
And of course, net zero IS a load of bollocks.
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Scrap the net zero bollocks.
Completely open up North Sea oil and gas exploration.
Do it now @Keir_Starmer
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@_chris_homer @Keir_Starmer What is "Net Zero", and what good will scrapping it do?
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@modernheroestv @jamiezerofour The queues for petrol/diesel at the local Costco today were > 45 minutes because it was 10p a litre cheaper than the Asda next door. So they are happy to wait a while for cheaper refuelling after all...
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@jamiezerofour What planning does plugging the car in and letting the charger charge it while you sleep involve?
“Sensory pleasure” lol some awful 4 pot diesel no doubt.
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Can someone explain to me why new EV owners do this? The range displayed on the dash at 100% is definitely the most irrelevant thing on any car yet they show it off like a trophy?
Bizarre.
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@HankFrank @FranWalsh73 If you fail early in the gym, it's OK, get sorted, the car is in the car park waiting for you. In marathon training, you can fail early and be 10 miles from home and still needing to get back on foot.
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Fair points and I hear you.
I’m not saying the marathon demands more effort or discipline than powerlifting at an equivalent level. I’m saying it demands something that the gym simply doesn’t ask for.
In powerlifting you always know where you stand. The bar moves or it doesn’t. A bad day ends when you walk out of the gym. You can come back tomorrow and reset. The feedback is immediate and the unit of failure is a single lift.
Marathon training doesn’t work like that. A bad week doesn’t end on Friday. It bleeds into the next week and the week after that. The fatigue stacks. The doubt stacks. You can’t just have a bad session and move on because the bad session is 18 miles long.
And race day has no equivalent to missing a lift. When it falls apart at mile 18 there is nothing to do but survive the next 8 miles. You can’t bail. You can’t come back tomorrow. You committed to something 4 months ago and now you’re just out there alone with the consequences of every decision you made in training.
On top of that, if you are actually racing marathons seriously, you get 2 maybe 3 real shots at it per year. Every race is 16 to 20 weeks of work on the line. Have a bad marathon and you are waiting until spring.
That’s what I mean by different. Not harder in every dimension. Not more effort. Just harder in the specific ways that expose you and break you down over time.
Maybe that’s just my experience. But I don’t think it is.
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@VrtuSignalBlokr @DPJHodges @h_bee28788884 The mosque told them to vote for the woman who is representing the party led by the gay Jewish man?
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@DPJHodges @h_bee28788884 They vote for who the mosque tells them to vote for, and take the consequences if they don’t, thats the simplest terms I think I can tell you in
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Can we nail down the argument here. Thousands of Muslim women in Gorton and Denton secretly love Keir Starmer, wanted to vote for him, but were forced to vote Green by their husbands? Or were secretly desperate to vote for Matt Goodwin, but we’re stopped for the same reason?
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@DPJHodges @h_bee28788884 Right wing white men going into polling booths with their wives to mie sure they vote for Reform is what was happening.
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@Alan_Couzens "Do your 6 hours of evening doom scrolling on a walking pad, rather than slumped on the sofa"
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"How on earth can a white-collar worker get 6hrs of movement per day?"
Easy - Standup Desk + Walking Pad.
Boss won't let you get a Standup Desk + Walking Pad?
Find another job.
Your health is too important.
Alan Couzens@Alan_Couzens
The "live to 100" checklist (at the halfway point) 1. >6hrs movement per day (PAL 2.0+) 2. 7-9 hrs high-quality sleep 3. VO2max >50 ml/kg/min 4. ApoB <70mg/dL 5. BP <115/75 mmHg 6. HbA1c = 5.0 7. FFMI >20 kg/m2 8. Visceral Fat <1kg 9. Omega-3 Index >= 8% 10. Resting HR <50 bpm No polyps.
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