They make great sense, has a second car, for the shorter runs. Problems is, the investment needed in one, makes them too expensive, to have sat around as a second car.
As for the 20 mph speed limit you mentioned a while back, it clearly wasn't appropriate if the boyos government thought it apprpriate to lower it and then raise it again. Clearly seen to be the work of a moron riding his own hobby-horse and promoting his own beliefs.