It looks like the beginning of the end of electric vehicles!

I am sure my Sat Nav only did it to wind me up, this afternoon it sent me on to the M6 Toll Road at Burntwood despite me telling it to avoid tolls.

So I ended up paying seven quid to drive past the Electrium Building on a toll road that runs parallel with a main road I used this morning.

At least I was only charged as a car rather than the van rate of £12.30 because the booths are not manned and the toll is charged by the height of the vehicle. The idea that I might actually pay £24.30 per day to use the toll road as a van driver being self employed and having to pay it out of my earnings is totally ridiculous.

Even if you run an electric vehicle I can assure you you will eventually end up paying to use the roads one way or another. 

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cost-of-energy-independent-review 

Short-sighted populist energy policy just about sums up the problem. I have no sympathy for the dilemma which the politicians find themselves in. They have brought it upon themselves. They thought it a great wheeze to tax everyone by putting green levies on energy bills whilst they were relatively low. Then, those with plenty of spare cash and their cronies could access the subsidies to get cheaper energy bills at the public's expense. You could get away with it whilst energy bills were relatively low, but not when they become an increasing large proportion of household expenditure.

To top it all you chuck resilience of the energy supply out of the window because the dogma of "free markets" will always come to the rescue at the cheapest cost.

Then add on the cost paring of shutting the Rough storage facility plus failing to stop Nordstream 2 whilst we were in the EU and you get to where we are. It has been all too predictable. I just don't understand why Boris' enemies aren't kicking off big time.

I suppose they they are implicated by being asleep on the job, or worse, they think high energy bills are a good thing and will drive decarbonisation more quickly. Let's have some honesty and put that on the ballot paper if it is the real agenda. Then we will see who gets elected, so long as the costings appear too.

So that's why there are so few commercial vehicles, and not many of any description! But tell me, I have never seen a "safety" camera van there - do they put them out?

So that's why there are so few commercial vehicles, and not many of any description! But tell me, I have never seen a "safety" camera van there - do they put them out?