Economic growth at what cost? ‘we’ll never have electric airliners’ says reader
Economic growth at what cost? ‘we’ll never have electric airliners’ says reader
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Do you agree with our readers? Have your say on these MetroTalk topics and more in the comments. Nothing better illustrates the ignorance of government ministers than chancellor Rachel Reeves’s justification for the expansion of Heathrow airport (Metro, Mon).
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It’s well known that whatever the advances in battery storage, we’ll never have electric airliners. Similarly, biofuel is only ever going to have an insignificant impact on pollution. Still, when your own budget has impacted growth, you’ll clutch at any straws – even at the expense of the environment. John Daniels, Redhill.
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. ‘Not my diesel car’. I had just finished my meal at the M6 service station at Tebay when there was a power cut. As I was leaving, a man complained to me that he had just put his car on to charge and would have to wait for the power to come back.
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Not a problem I faced. My diesel car took me down to Liverpool and back home to Scotland on one tank. Our unreliable electricity supply is one more reason why people are shunning electric cars. Otto Inglis, Fife. Rather than introduce stricter controls on who can buy knives online or bring in stronger age checks, why does the government not just prohibit such sales completely? Anyone needing a kitchen knife, for example, would have to go to a shop – as we do for other items and have done to buy such knives for hundreds of years. Robert Evans, via email.
