"Tesla has lobbied the UK government to promote higher taxes for gas-powered vehicles, or petrol cars, as they would say, as well as the proposed ban on internal combustion engine vehicles.
Over the years, Tesla has occasionally lobbied for electric vehicle incentives, but the automaker has always made its position clear about the best solution being to tax products that result in more polluting emissions in order to represent their true cost.
Now, we’ve learned that Tesla submitted a proposal to the UK government to increase taxes on petrol and diesel-powered vehicles."
electrek.co/2021/03/16/tesla-lo … qus_thread
Who would have thought it.They are calling on the government to crash the UK economy on the perception that it will lead to Tesla’s private gain.
IE state control and interference to rig the free market against a more economically viable product.
Strange how direct state control of the economy is considered ok if there’s a perceived private profit to be made by it.
The truth is these desperate snake oil sellers know that electricity is too expensive to power even a cooker or a domestic boiler let alone a car.
Good luck with the obvious next call by the tree burning nuke fans to increase domestic gas prices to 16p per kwh + VAT.
Ye, no doubt the oil industry has been lobbying for the opposite.
adam277:
Ye, no doubt the oil industry has been lobbying for the opposite.
It’s all about the pre tax cost of the respective fuels.
Electric is the one which has the pre tax price problem.
The oil industry is actually funding the NHS with a far more economically viable product in that regard.
Good luck to anyone ‘lobbying’ to make 16p per kwh + road fuel duty + 20% VAT pay, which they certainly haven’t ‘lobbied’ for.
Let alone trying to run a domestic heating system at 16p per kwh + 5% VAT as opposed to 3p per kwh for gas.
It would/will crash the economy if the electric zealots don’t turn it into a nuked treeless dustbowl first.
Well obviously we haven’t been paying enough fuel duty in the UK 
I find it Bizarre that a North American BEV company lobbied the UK to increase fuel duties when they themselves pay a fraction of the price of a gallon of petrol & even pulled out of the Paris accord 
lancpudn:
Well obviously we haven’t been paying enough fuel duty in the UK I find it Bizarre that a North American BEV company lobbied the UK to increase fuel duties when they themselves pay a fraction of the price of a gallon of petrol & even pulled out of the Paris accord
The Paris Accord is all part of agenda 30 which is all about what’s good for China in this case that means we must burn less fossil fuel so China can take more.
The idea that Communism is good so long as there is a profit in it is nothing new.
It’s time to abandon the fake climate change agenda and worry about the very real damage that these treacherous snake oil sellers intend to do to our economy and our environment.
Unless anyone really wants a nuked treeless wasteland and to pay an unsustainable economic price for the privilege.
Carryfast:
lancpudn:
Well obviously we haven’t been paying enough fuel duty in the UK I find it Bizarre that a North American BEV company lobbied the UK to increase fuel duties when they themselves pay a fraction of the price of a gallon of petrol & even pulled out of the Paris accord
The Paris Accord is all part of agenda 30 which is all about what’s good for China in this case that means we must burn less fossil fuel so China can take more.
The idea that Communism is good so long as there is a profit in it is nothing new.
It’s time to abandon the fake climate change agenda and worry about the very real damage that these treacherous snake oil sellers intend to do to our economy and our environment.
Unless anyone really wants a nuked treeless wasteland and to pay an unsustainable economic price for the privilege.
The UK government are going to be dragged through the courts again if they don’t change tack according to ClientEarth, they’re on track to miss 4 of it’s 5 legal emission targets and are under a legal obligation to revamp their strategy airqualitynews.com/2021/03/18/u … n-targets/
lancpudn:
The UK government are going to be dragged through the courts again if they don’t change tack according to ClientEarth, they’re on track to miss 4 of it’s 5 legal emission targets and are under a legal obligation to revamp their strategy airqualitynews.com/2021/03/18/u … n-targets/
We’re under no more ‘legal obligation’ than Trump was when he pulled the US out of the Chinese Fossil Fuel Grab ‘Accord’.
Pro China government imposing closet commy LibDem policy under a false flag Tory mandate yes.