EV are they worth it?

[DiyNutJob]

Lithium battery factory burning down.

 

[Avocet]

Lithium battery factory burning down.

Oil rig burning down...

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Lithium battery factory burning down.

Which appears to be in a populated, and built-up area.

Oil rig burning down...

Which appears to be far from land, far from any built-up, and populated areas.

Perhaps they should build and store the batteries, plus the EV's, out at sea for safety.

 

[JohnD]

Oil Refinery fire in Pembroke in 2024 https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/24622903.three-workers-injured-fire-valero-site-pembroke/
https://pembrokeshire-herald.com/99...-in-incident-at-valero-oil-refinery-pembroke/

Oil Refinery fire in Pembroke in 2011 https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/pembrokeshire-oil-refinery-explosion-court-16387027

Oil Refinery fire in Pembroke in 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4378133.stm

Oil Refinery fire in Pembroke in 1994

Seems to be a bit of a pattern.

 

[Avocet]

Which appears to be in a populated, and built-up area.



Which appears to be far from land, far from any built-up, and populated areas.

Perhaps they should build and store the batteries, plus the EV's, out at sea for safety.

Oh don't worry! It made its way to shore alright! (43,000 square miles of shore, to be precise...)

Fourteen Years After Deepwater Horizon

Despite the devastation of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, offshore drilling remains a threat to communities, our ocean, and the climate....

www.nrdc.org

 

[JBR]

Unfortunately society has turned against discipline. This breakdown can't just be the fault of parents. Police don't police, criminal 'justice' is often a joke, probation officers are now little more than social workers and teachers seem to fear the kids in schools rather than the other way around. Every level of society seems set up to undermine discipline now, almost like it's a dirty or unfashionable idea. The result can be seen in the law and disorder that seems to be everywhere nowadays.

Excellent comment. I completely agree (despite being off-topic!). I can't decide whether the cause is 14 years of Liberal-Conservative 'government', the infamous Tony Bliar, or perhaps Two-tier Free-gear Starmer. Probably all three.

 

[Avocet]

Excellent comment. I completely agree (despite being off-topic!). I can't decide whether the cause is 14 years of Liberal-Conservative 'government', the infamous Tony Bliar, or perhaps Two-tier Free-gear Starmer. Probably all three.

But whatever the cause is, it definitely won't be the parents, eh?

 

[JohnD]

Unfortunately society has turned against discipline. This breakdown can't just be the fault of parents. Police don't police, criminal 'justice' is often a joke, probation officers are now little more than social workers and teachers seem to fear the kids in schools rather than the other way around. Every level of society seems set up to undermine discipline now, almost like it's a dirty or unfashionable idea. The result can be seen in the law and disorder that seems to be everywhere nowadays.

Exactly the same complaints have been made for generations.

 

[ericmark]

I was doing work in a BT building, I was the site foreman, and I got a complaint that when they had complained to my co-worker, over something he was doing, the answer they got was "I blame the parents" he was of course right, what he had failed to tell them, was I had told him to do it, and he was my son.

 

[Avocet]

Before you know it, you'll be happily ambling down the turnpike road, minding your own business, and some highwayman will leap out of the bushes with a flintlock pistol and demand you stand and deliver your valuables!

Thieves, brigands, cut-purses and the like, are a problem as old as history. You can put them in the village stocks, imprison them, hang them, deport them to " the colonies", but the problem won't go away. Whenever the gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots" in society gets too big, the problem becomes unmanageable.

 

[Brigadier]

. were a 3 strong group of young Romanians

Like manna from heaven eh, Regan?

 

[DiyNutJob]

Toxic lithium battery gas released over Montreal. This makes smoking in pubs akin to a healthy walk in the park.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

So only the well off Romanians shoplift ?

No native brits do it?

 

[Avocet]

Toxic lithium battery gas released over Montreal. This makes smoking in pubs akin to a healthy walk in the park.

Toxic petroleum fumes released over Hertfordshire...

 

[Avocet]

Your sweeping, racist assumptions make you look like the patronising one, from where I stand. Put a bit of salt and vinegar on that monster chip you've got on your shoulder and go feed a poor family with it. Crime has been with us for millennia, your assumptions that it's all "foreigners and druggies" disgusts me...