How much do most of those uber eats drivers make? A fucking pittance I bet
Instead of blowing 50,000 quid on some tesla just so its autopilot can murder a cyclist and waiting hours by a powerpoint, why not spend 5k on some second hand rover montego, and hire some newly arrived punjabi as a driver while you sit in the back and watch porn? Get him an admirals uniform with epaulets. It'd be totally boss and you'd still be ahead after two years. Could probably write his wages off your taxes too if you have a good accountant
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 13:23,
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But the internal combustion is evil
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 13:49,
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More than a third of the UK's electricity is still generated by burning a finite resource from out of the ground
www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/how-much-uks-energy-renewable
I guess the missing 22% is nuclear
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 14:04,
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If you want real time figures
This site's hard to beat
www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 14:46,
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40% from burning gas, even worse
and hardly the green alternative. With all the losses/inefficiencies you'll get during power distribution, how is it better for the environment to ditch your gas boiler?
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 21:41,
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it's an odd argument against EV vehicles
that because UK government policy forces consumers to choose polluting power sources because of their status quo energy policy in the face of global warming and the worst European drought in at least 500 years, they should buy a car that can only run on polluting power sources.
It's a bit like saying, "well I'm going to drop my strides and shit on this beach because the government is pumping sewage there anyway". It's not a particular morally defensible position.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 6 Sep 2022, 0:26,
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If all the fuel used for ICE vehicles was used to generate electricity for EVs
- there'd be something like a 60 % reduction in the fuel being burned.
EVs are massively more efficient than internal combustion is at turning potential energy sources into moving mass.
www.globalfueleconomy.org/media/460864/electric-vehicles-summary.pdf
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Mon 5 Sep 2022, 7:03,
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none of that matters once you have a driver wearing an admirals uniform
the police could be executing protesters with their blood running out in the street and you'd just say, "Ranjit, that reminds me. Swing by the Threshers, I'm going to pick up a bottle of Burgundy"
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 14:08,
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Not sure why that particular state of the Indian subcontinent has been picked on
But I think I'd be looking elsewhere for a skilled driver, as the Punjab has over 10 x road fatalities compared to Great Britain.
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Varmint, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 15:22,
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I dare say the figure has dropped sharply recently.
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jonbob loves you, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 18:24,
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it wasn't so much for their driving prowess, though my experience of dangerous poorly regulated countries is that it tends to produce better drivers as you have to be on your toes
living in brazil there was always someone doing some crazy shit on the roads almost every day. I remember they had this major arterial road in Sao paulo, the Marginal, that was 8 lanes wide. One time I drove along at night in heavy rain, and they'd painted over all the white lines in black, but being brazil hadn't got around to painting the new lines yet. In the near constant heavy traffic of Sao Paulo. It was like some crazy Le Mans start, speeding across this huge black empty expanse of tarmac with a bunch of other cars in the rain, all jockeying for position and trying not to hit each other.
Anyway, it's just that Punjabis, for whatever reason, seem disproportionately over-represented as uber eats deliverers, and so are prime candidates to jump at being my driver for similar wages and far less work than delivering pizza to penge, not to mention the chance to wear an admirals uniform
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 5 Sep 2022, 9:45,
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