SUVs make up more than 40% of new cars sold in the UK – while fully electric vehicles account for less than 2%

[Superdupastupor]

A century of

All that inflammable noxious petrol, money down the drain,
Lives lost, horrific family decay through grades of TBI.
If you want to kill someone do it with a car.
Fuck you-- these 8m2 of your community out side your house I'm squatting on it, for as long as I want.
Car insurance, thanks for paying your pension twice over.
Double, triple parking round the corner from school and then round to big sis pick up, maybe fuck your job conditions
But the bus is shit, extractive tax on those who have the autonomy to choose to 'take the bus today's onerous tax farming Sisyphus for the other sardines,
*But I can't get the shopping in, first of all fuck your job. Fuck your moaning bout lugging the Lidl carpark, can you see a bus stop.
*Fuck your job, if it makes you so relied up that you rally home, playing chicken with other sports estate, scaring the fuck out of the majority who would preferably not be stressed to fuck after 9hours slog by yer fuck-carts, go race your hearts content with the agreement of those sharing the tarmac.


If you swipe me cycling, well multifunctional toolkit.

I cannot think of anything so atomistic, antisocial, vandals of cities, if you care about the car you drive over the age of 18 you are a failure at life.

And now I learn your shite driving skills are killing my lungs.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I remember when we got our current car (Vauxhall Astra) in 2017, first we’d ever bought brand new, and some cunt keyed within 48 hours. I don’t do violence but that day I would have been strongly tempted to kick several shades of shit out of them had I caught them in the act…

Have you tried coping? I've heard that when something happens that has no effect on your life, coping can be an easy and fun activity for all the family.

Using violence to avenge an inanimate object on the other hand, that's more of what you'd call a cunt's trick.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

As Vincent says in Pulp Fiction - What's more chickenshit than fucking with a man's automobile? I mean don't fuck with another man's vehicle.

Imagine being an adult and actually believing that.

 

[Mr Retro]

Park like a twat = get keyed

How many cars have you keyed Orang Utan? I have a rough figure in my head.

 

[Orang Utan]

How many cars have you keyed Orang Utan? I have a rough figure in my head.

That’s an unanswerable question

 

[SpookyFrank]

Eh? It was parked outside my in-laws. It’s a shitty thing to do.

Oh well, in that case, fucking cope.

 

[Mr Retro]

That’s an unanswerable question

I’ll do it for you: 0

 

[Orang Utan]

I’ll do it for you: 0

That’s the official answer

 

[Orang Utan]

SWIM keys obstructive street litter as a matter of course though

 

[Superdupastupor]

Every house a castle
Every car a tank
Every stranger enemy
Your family under attack by bastard invisible ninja guerrillas.
Every neighbourhood an open high-security prison
Every day passively filmed by everyday ai CCTV


Strange emnity, keyed tanks,
Everybody loves castles ruined.
Under the grille, everyone's someone's subhuman scum, just a defence
Highly prized filmed action, every hoodie, who's they?

someday we'll look one another in the eye and laugh
bit crap all that fuckwit's scrap
Nervously, are we laughing at you.
you've just got ask.

 

[Superdupastupor]

Hate cars

 

[hash tag]

1less Storm Ciarán waves drag 4x4 into sea

 

[editor]

1less Storm Ciarán waves drag 4x4 into sea

 

[Pickman's model]

Yay for marine pollution

 

[SpookyFrank]

Yay for marine pollution

I'm sure some dolphins can use it to drive their kids to school.

 

[hash tag]

I'm sure some dolphins can use it to drive their kids to school.

Shudders

 

[Mr Retro]

1less Storm Ciarán waves drag 4x4 into

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/moment-storm-ciarn-waves-dragged-8877131
What's more chickenshit than fucking with a man's automobile? I mean don't fuck with another man's vehicle.

Watch your back Ciaran

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm sure some dolphins can use it to drive their kids to school.

that's a porpoiseless post

 

[hash tag]

that's a porpoiseless post

Fishing for reactions now.

 

[editor]

For all their greenwashing advertising spin, car manufacturers are far more interested in trousering the biggest profits rather than giving a shit about the environment.

Ralph Palmer, electric vehicle and fleets officer at T&E UK, said: “Small, affordable electric vehicles are going to be vital to ensure that all drivers can leave behind their polluting petrol and diesel cars. And yet carmakers are still prioritising the production of vehicles that are just too big and bulky for British streets and are an increased strain on precious critical materials.”

However, the big six European carmakers [3] have abandoned small affordable cars in pursuit of profits that have grown far faster than inflation, with one, Volvo, committing to only selling SUVs in the UK going forward.

Carmarkers are now prioritising sales of larger, more lucrative SUVs, which are growing rapidly within the electric car market, making up 44% of all new EVs sold in 2022.

This trend towards larger, heavier vehicles needs to be halted to lower the embedded emissions of vehicle production and reduce demands on the electricity grid. In June, the Climate Change Committee noted their concerns over the “prioritisation of sports utility vehicles” in the sales of new cars.

Carmakers urged to stop prioritising SUVs over smaller and more affordable electric cars

People in the UK more likely to buy EVs if they were offered an affordable small BEV.

www.transportenvironment.org

 

[editor]

FFS: the average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent.

The environmental charity Possible has been comparing emissions from current SUVs with 10-yeara-old vehicles due to growing concern over the impact of SUVs on the environment. The charity’s focus has been on the U.K., where the proportion of SUVs rose from around one-fifth of all vehicles sold to almost a third in recent years. Further research has shown that three-quarters of new SUVs are registered in urban areas.

According to the study, the average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger, heavier vehicles with larger engines. Not only can they easily weigh two tons, many of them are equipped with all-wheel drive systems, which are more common today than 10 years ago.

Together with the increase in registrations, these factors combine to practically cancel out any improvement in emissions through more electric vehicles and more efficient petrol consumption.

Possible also found that SUV emissions are 20% higher than those of conventional vehicles. While CO₂ emissions of an average new SUV decreased between 2011 and 2016, when they reached 120 grams per kilometer, this figure has risen steadily ever since, and is now approaching 130 grams per kilometer.

Which pollutes more: a new SUV or a 10-year-old conventional vehicle?

The environmental organization Possible has carried out a comparison between the two options and the results are shocking

english.elpais.com

 

[Chz]

FFS: the average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent.

Which pollutes more: a new SUV or a 10-year-old conventional vehicle?

The environmental organization Possible has carried out a comparison between the two options and the results are shocking

english.elpais.com

Diesels were a much larger part of the market 5-6 year ago. And they release a fair bit less CO2. Unfortunately, as anyone in the ULEZ zone will know, diesels spew out a dozen other horrible things at much higher rates. That study is a shitshow, it even starts on the first page with the assumption "With respect to greenhouse gases, it is no longer true that low income motorists are likely to be driving more polluting vehicles". This was never true. It goes on to waste pages and pages to prove something that has always been true as if it's some new fact they've discovered. They then go on to do the classic error of conflating greenhouse gas emissions with air pollution, when the two have little to do with one another. It's piss poor science. At no point do they acknowledge that diesels have been severely restricted in recent years (for good reasons), and yet they are 20-25% better on CO2 emissions. Followed by a number of graphs that would be great in demonstrating the classic correlation is not equal to causation mistake.

So not really a surprise. Same for "large corporations pursue profits over being nice" above it. Even Tesla's not in it because they hate global warming.

Edit: I'm fine with "don't buy giant cars", but I have to call out shit science when I see it.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Oh well, in that case, fucking cope.

Let's take bolt cutters to bikes. The owners should just cope eh?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Let's take bolt cutters to bikes. The owners should just cope eh?

My bike isn't stored on a public highway.

 

[klang]

If i leave my bike outside i accept a few scratches. A bolt cutter would piss me off a bit more.

 

[kebabking]

Let's take bolt cutters to bikes. The owners should just cope eh?

It's almost as if the proponents of damaging other people's stuff that they don't like aren't bright enough to imagine the potential downsides of a politics where it's ok to break other people's stuff that you don't like....

 

[klang]

It's almost as if the proponents of damaging other people's stuff that they don't like aren't bright enough to imagine the potential downsides of a politics where it's ok to break other people's stuff that you don't like....

You mean like cars damaging neighbourhoods, lungs and climate?

 

[UnderOpenSky]

My bike isn't stored on a public highway.

That's fine. We can just do the ones in public.

 

[SpookyFrank]

That's fine. We can just do the ones in public.

Not sure what your justification would be for doing it but go ahead. If it's cosmetic damage and the bike still works I won't give a shit.

A car is the only thing you leave lying around in public indefinitely with the expectation no harm will come to it. Even a bike, if you leave it in the street overnight then lock or no lock it will get nicked sooner than later and nobody will be sympathetic. Of course you can't just leave your shit lying around in public.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

If i leave my bike outside i accept a few scratches. A bolt cutter would piss me off a bit more.

*lets klang's bike's tyres down.