Government might roll-back the EV mandate.

[Workingman]

Seems sensible. People simply do not want them and many cannot afford or use them efficiently... and 40% of the electricity they use produces CO2 (from gas), just not with an exhaust pipe.... it's "over there". Then there's the environmental damage they cause and the CO2 in their production.

Globally transport, in all its forms - flying, shipping, road vehicles - accounts for 15% of all emissions, just ahead of agriculture (food), we need that, and manufacturing (tat). Meanwhile heating and cooling produces 31% of emissions.

This net-zero focus was always in the wrong place and it looks as though we might (slowly) be waking up to that.

[victor]

There will never be net zero- wishful thinking

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[Workingman]

A well insulated home can save about 40%, or more, of its energy input for heating and cooling, because insulation works both ways. Basic thermodynamics. We can reduce way more CO2 by (retro fitting) insulation to the majority of homes more efficiently, way more than heat pumps and EVs will ever can for the few.

Put the heat in and keep it there, it says warm. Keep the heat out to stay cool, it says cool. We have had this technology for decades, make that hundreds or thousands of years, but never used it in modern times.

The Tudors hung tapestries along their walls in the main rooms. Because they were insulators they kept the cold from the walls getting into their rooms and stopped the heat in their rooms leaking out to the colder walls. Tapestries were insulators. We have curtains. Simple, eh.

Science 101: Heat goes to cold.