Boris Johnson’s leveling-up agenda is in big trouble. Ministers plan to force consumers to subsidize the installation of charging stations for wealthy owners of electric vehicles by raising electricity bills.
In recent weeks, ministers and officials have announced that households will have to fund many of the Government’s costly Net Zero plans via their energy bills.
Currently, consumers are funding renewable energy investors to the tune of £12 billion per year, money taken from energy bills.
But on top of this huge and rising cost, the Government now plans to add a whole catalog of additional Net Zero subsidies.
Companies building public charging points for electric car owners would no longer have to cover the costs of connecting them to the grid. Instead, ordinary families would have to fund this through their energy bills.
EVs, which are typically £10,000 more expensive than their petrol equivalents, are mostly bought by wealthy families as second or third cars, while electricity bills are paid by everyone.
While having to fund this Net Zero infrastructure, electric cars are far too expensive for millions of households and ordinary families.
A third of UK motorists cannot afford even the cheapest electric car, economists at the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) have warned.
That means that ten million households can’t afford to switch their petrol and diesel cars for electric ones.
Last year, the transport department spent £61m in grants to wealthy buyers of Tesla cars after the company launched its £40,000 Model 3.
Since 2011 the taxpayers have handed out £1.1bn to subsidize well-off buyers of green cars, paying buyers up to £2,500 of the purchase price of electric cars.
European car manufacturers have questioned whether they can produce electric cars without making them much more expensive than conventional cars.
There are a number of reasons why EVs will remain more expensive than petrol cars – batteries are very costly and need to be renewed, the time wasted at charging points, the need to find alternative transport when their range is inadequate.
That’s only going to get worse as electricity prices soar in the future.
The Global Warming Policy Forum has estimated that the Government’s Net Zero plan to decarbonize private transport could cost UK motorists up to £700 billion if they want to stay on the roads.
The working classes face the prospect of being driven off the roads.
This represents a major ethical problem for Boris Johnson’s leveling-up agenda and his Conservative government.
Like so many aspects of the Net Zero project, subsidizing EV charging points means the transfer of hundreds of millions of pounds from the poor to the rich.
It is fairly certain that most households would be unable to keep their heads above water as this torrent of additional Net Zero costs overwhelms their domestic budgets. Neither Boris Johnson nor his government would survive this unwise and unjust imposition on the British people.
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With The medium annual house hold income in the UK is 23,256 pounds, and the typical cost of the less expensive electric vehicles in the UK is around 21,000 pounds, the article is excessively optimistic in saying that only a third of UK motorists cannot afford even the cheapest electric car.
The UK has thousands of elderly dying each year because they can not afford to heat their homes to healthy levels. This is due to the inflated cost of energy from action on climate change. Now more money is going to be transferred from the poor elderly and other poor to the wealthy.
Johnson is as delusional as Biden and the rest of the Go Green Nit-Wits
What critics constantly omit to mention is that these ‘green’ policies are nothing to do with the climate or the planet and everything to do with deliberately creating poverty and death. History and the ORIGINS of the anti-CO2 campaign (1970s) need to be dug up and publicized so that nobody remains under the illusion that decarbonisation was originally demanded to save the planet. It was always a demand to reduce populations, industrialization and economic growth. Just criticizing increased costs isn’t enough to shut down the death cult.