ACK, I think the ugly Green Blob in Red Dwarf appeared to the beholder as the most perfect and beautiful life partner. Back on Planet Earth, the Green Blob has shape shifted into the Total Despair Squid, engulfing everybody in their worst nightmare visions of regressing into the lightless dark ages.

Carson also promulgated the precautionary principle and the balance of nature.

Thanks Sandy S, I blame Brown too but the list of people who let the public down is a long one.

I can understand people wanting electric cars to succeed but why can't they admit that the three biggest barriers are range, filling time and cost. Cost is almost a side issue if you can't solve the first two. If a £2500 cut in subsidy can decimate buyers, there was only a vanity market anyway.

Electric car sales to Aug2016

Apart from the March jump before the subsidy dropped, sales are the same as last year. About 1.5% of all sales. Less than the number who voted Green at the last election.

To claim that any kind of negative advertising by a pair of American business men has caused that lack of interest is daft.

Scrapheap challenge says it all!
Oh Kryten how low you have sunk, bet your spaceship is not powered by renewables, but I do seem to recall a green blob in at least one episode.

tomo 12:21 interesting link!

With all these wind turbines being built, that won't generate electricity, and all these batteries being produced, that can't be charged, there is going to be a massive oversupply of uselessness.

To prevent these things going straight to landfill, could wind turbine towers be modified to act as warehouses for unwanted batteries? If a few are wired up, they could store oversupply for the few weeks it occurs every year, and release it over the following hours.

tomo
I had to laugh when he said how many wind turbines China was building because of the story the consequent subsidies where bankrupting the Chinese economy

ACK, agree about Rachel Carson and all her Green Blob disciples of death.

TinyCO2
I've not gone out yet, but check out The Pension Protection Fund which is where many company schemes end up when there is a shortfall of funds. I put most of the blame on Gordon Brown (but there are others are involved).

The possibly surprisingly long list of members is here