One of the Handmaiden Media’s superpowers is its relentless adherence to the narrative. Take Electric Vehicles, for Example. Emma Taggert is reputed to be an economics reporter with The Telegraph, which could mean a lot of things, including that she doesn’t actually know anything about Economics. Not really. Sure, she knows the bronzed white-tower university-approved dogma, but those are the people who said Trump’s tariff wheel of fortune would spike inflation, kill jobs, and start a mosh pit of trade wars with America.
Peace, massive investment, and fair trade deals for America were not in their calculus. Stable inflation, real job growth, and the rebuilding of Americans’ manufacturing base were not included in any of the expert PowerPoints. A future with millions of new, real, necessary, long-term, good-paying jobs was not part of their debate. Put less politely, they sought refuge in the arrogance of their own Narcissism (and TDS), and it bit them in their mostly lily-white asses.
It has not stopped these elites from realizing they are not quite as smart as they think. EV buyers, who have, up until now, avoided paying road, toll, or transportation taxes embedded in the price of motor fuels, are facing new taxes or fees, which have impacted sales.
Electric vehicle (EV) sales grew at their slowest rate in two years in November, at just 3.6%, according to figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
The problem appears to be that some people were buying EVs, not to save the planet, but to avoid (at least in part) some taxes.
The Chancellor announced a new pay-per-mile road tax for EVs in last week’s Budget. The levy will charge drivers of electric cars 3p per mile when it comes into force in April 2028 – costing them around £250 a year on average.
Wait. There’s more.
Mike Hawes, the Chief Executive of the SMMT, tied the slowdown to the Budget and its long build-up.
He said: “Even in a fragile market, zero-emission vehicle uptake continues to rise, which is exactly what we need. But the weakest growth for almost two years – ahead of the Government announcing a new tax on EVs – should be seen as a wake-up call that a sustained increase in demand for EVs cannot be taken for granted.
“We should be taking every opportunity to encourage drivers to make the switch, not punishing them for doing so, else the ambitions of Government and industry will be thwarted.”
Mike appears to misunderstand the ambitions of government and industry. It is to take in money and accumulate power. EVs, which are not better for the environment and arguably worse than regular combustion engines, are misrepresented by both industry and government as low-or no-emission vehicles. They offshore a majority of their emissions and ignore the rest, such as increased tire and brake wear particulates and the emissions costs their excess weight creates through increased road and bridge wear. Costs that are not just environmental, of which they are increasingly more responsible, and which they’ve been shirking by not paying fuel taxes.
Emma, the economist reporter, never challenges Mike or anyone else on any of this, certainly not the bit later in about how the softening of sales was likely only less dramatic because the SMMT started issuing car grants to encourage buyers to purchase more expensive EVs.
They are not green, they create a greater need for revenues to address roads and bridges, the EV tax or fee is actually too low given the proportion of wear (all unaddressed or unchallenged), and no one is as yet discussing the massive financial and enviromental end of life costs that are as likley to be assumed by the govenrment (taxpayers) as part of this dangerous (and sometimes extremeley flammable and toxic) transportation experiment.
If a tax on EVs that only begins to approach the average annual transportation cost of fuel taxes puts a stake in the heart of these environmental vampires, the smile on my face can’t get wide enough.
As for The Telegraph, a notorious mouthpiece for the government and globalism, its reporter is doing her job. Not asking real questions like why none of it makes any sense, and since it doesn’t, why then are we doing it?
