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Fair Fuel for UK Motorists and UK Hauliers APPG - 2021
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Chairman’s Introduction
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What do MPs and politicians say about the Government’s 2030 new fossil fuelled vehicle sales ban and the push for us all to drive electric
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Contents
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Background
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This report highlights:
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APPG Report Intentions
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The APPG calls on the Government to implement the recommendations listed on page 8 -9.
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Who supports Government Road Transport Polices?
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Survey responses by Road User Type to the APPG’s 7 key recommendations
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The APPG’s 7 Key Recommendations to the Government
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What do the majority of UK’s Road Users really think about the 2030 ban?
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1. The 2030 new petrol/diesel vehicles sales ban.
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2. The push for UK’s 37m drivers to change to Electric Vehicles.
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3. A brief look at what should replace £35bn of Fuel Duty and VAT.
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Survey responses broken down by primary transport choices.
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Should the 2030 Ban on the sales of new petrol/diesel vehicles stay?
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Were the electorate consulted about the 2030 ban?
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What road users, real people in the UK electorate are saying.
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Has the Government considered the risks and benefits to the environment & economic impact of the 2030 ban?
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If the 2030 ban had been included in the Conservative 2019 General Election Manifesto, how would you have voted?
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Will the Government’s push to make us drive EVs, be a Betamax moment or more worryingly, the next diesel-gate?
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A global picture of increasing electricity demand
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Fuel for thought
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Can our national grid cope with the EV Charging demand in 2030 and beyond?
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Banning the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) – The Figures simply do not add up!
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The National Grid’s Deception
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16,000 additional wind turbines required to power the British EV fleet.
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Impact Analysis of Level 2 EV Chargers on Residential Power Distribution Grids
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The National Grid – An expert perspective from the GWPF
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Why are the costs of going Net Zero being hidden from the public?
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It is not just drivers; it is all of us that will have to pay.
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Electric vehicles – Quick Facts
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Rare Earth Metals
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The Second-hand car markets.
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An alternative perspective from an Alliance of British Drivers supporter
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Life Cycle Analysis of Battery Electric Cars
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Lazy economics
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Life Cycle Assessment in the automotive sector: a comparative case study of Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) and electric car
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Time to crack those rose-coloured spectacles.
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Are EVs to be continually subsidised by UK Taxpayers?
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Environmental evangelism & virtue signalling policies costing the UK £billions!
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The Government seems ill-informed in developing a fair and equitable long term road user plan.
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China wealth creation policies trump the environment!
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The CO2 illusion
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What about particulate matter?
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The health fallacy – ‘Thousands are dying of air pollution”
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“Every Journey Matters – Brainwashing deceit?”
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Emotion not science -
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The Commercial Heartbeat of the UK feels more than threatened.
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Political dogma leading to a £trillion of debt.
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Why is it, drivers are the only ones punished? What about other sources of emissions?
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The battery supply crunch
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Green Killers: Congo’s Miners Dying to Feed World’s Hunger for Electric Cars
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Climate Colonialism and the EU’s Green Deal
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EV Battery Charging Safety
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Battery Disposal
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More EV deliberations
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Could legal actions involving EV technology become commonplace?
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So, what will the EV take up be, up to and from 2030?
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Affordability of electric vehicles
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Real life practicality of EVs for the majority of drivers
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Reasons for fossil fuel driver’s reluctance to convert to an EV.
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Consumers simply do not trust Government’s Political Push for us all to drive EVs.
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Smart Governments must follow the facts, say Motor-Bikers.
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Net Zero and a question of honesty
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“FairFuelUK supporters will not take much more” says award winning public affairs campaigner, Howard Cox.
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Chairman’s Summary
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What the majority of our constituents are saying
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Just one of the thousands of similar comments from UK road users to the Government’s 2030 ban and EV Policies
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