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When the uk introduced subsidies on evs, the price of evs went up accordingly. Same will happen in Jersey. The problem with evs at the moment is that the market is becoming saturated. This has happened around five years earlier than expected due to the cost of living issues. The people who want them have bought them. Those who are undecided are still undecided. Most cannot afford them. Cheap Chinese evs are still selling. VW has paused production, others will follow suit. I think this is part of the reason uk has kicked the can down the road by five years.

More waste of tax payers money.

Yes, but the truth is that the uk only produces 1% of global greenhouse emissions. So, even the uks downward trend is a drop in the ocean.

No. There is a small area starboard forward roped off for dogs snd their owners. They are not allowed outside or anywhere else. It is only temporary anyway. If you or your dog does a mess on the carpet, you will be billed for the cleaning.

Dogs are pack animals. If you are from a different pack, you are potentially at risk. All dogs bite. All dogs should be on a lead in public and be muzzled. Dog owners are a different breed. Why should they be allowed to take digs into restaurants where hygiene is the top priority? What makes dog owners think it is acceptable to take them into shops, some of which have millions of pounds worth of stock? Why are they allowed in the passenger are of the ferrys? Even on the Manannan where in the past they were always banned. In the same way that they are not allowed in the passenger areas of an aircraft, they should be put in the provided kennels. The whole situation has become ridiculous and covid has made it worse because so many people got dogs during lockdown so the could leave the house for longer and more often. The situation is literally barking!

No. They ran out of tea bags.

No, VED is not hypothecated for roads, but the amount spent on roads is directly proportional to the amount of use. If road usage halves, so must the budget.

I have not read through the thread, but I think free bus travel would be a big attraction. The cost would be quite minimal, where it already makes a loss because most people who use it don't pay anyway. But having all buses as hop-on, hop-off would be a great way to get visitors travelling around the attractions.

As much as I agree old “poeople” should be banned, over 80s, perhaps. I think the age at which one can take their driving test should be raised to 18. Still allow provisionals and lessons from 16, but encourage some real, practical supervised experience before allowing children on the road.

If you are charging on fuel, then distance is charged for by default. The danger is that they price people off the road, then there is insufficient tax money to maintain the roads. So, you have to tax without discouraging. That is why lower road tax and higher fuel tax is the obvious answer. People can decide when they refuel their vehicles whether a certain trip is worth the money, or if they can afford it at that time.

Also by weight, including EVs. All cars road tax by weight. The other thing that annoys me is EVs getting cheaper electricity for charging, and low VAT! Ludicrous!

This is correct. There is a great disparity. Not just EVs. EVs should pay road tax. There is no excuse not to. However, more recent (last 10-15 years or so) diesel cars also pay minimal tax. This is simply wrong, and they are now the choice for long distance commuters, and therefore are some of the most polluting cars in the country. The best way to tax pollution by vehicles is by taxing the fuel they use. Make it a flat rate road tax, and add 10P a litre to petrol and diesel.

One off cost of £45 million will come nowhere near what is required. The people who sell these things price in the cost of electricity, plus inflation, plus built in redundancy. The actual cost to manufacture a wind turbine is quite minimal compared with the retail price.

IoM is buying and selling electricity with the UK every day. When UK demand is high, IoM gives it full power on both generators, which fires up the third generator, which is basically free power, so lowers the overall cost. It then sells that to the UK for a profit. When UK demand is low, and price drops, it is cheaper to put our turbines on idle and buy in. The crossover cost is around 11p per KWH. Other cheap electricity we get is from locals who produce their own. MU pay around 9p per KWH, and sell it back to them for 35p. The problems with your suggestion are: The £400,000,000 MEA debacle The £1,000,000,000 that wind turbines will end up costing us. The belief wind is free. It isn’t. It costs an absolute fortune. Electricity on IoM is not, and never will be free. Using public money to pay for these monstrosities will end up being a white elephant. There are better and cheaper ways of buying and producing electricity, such as mandatory solar panels on newbuild roof tops, panels on government and public buildings, tax incentives to private individuals to add solar, VAWT and small turbine systems which feed into the MU infrastructure. There are loads more. But saddling future generations with the massive debt that the lie of these turbines will produce is absolutely criminal!

But, if there was a problem with the Manxman, Manannan was not there. Why didn’t they use the other linkspan?

Ben was supposed to leave here at 20:15 last night, but didn’t leave until 21:30. Got into Heysham at 01:00. So knock on effect. This bit is what I heard, so just here say. Manxman snapped a mooring line whilst docked, due to wind. They sent manxman to sea instead of outer pier. They spent an hour investigating the lines prior to boarding the Ben.

Oh, that syria! I got my countries mixed up. Sorry!

Ukrainians (in general) are refugees, who have fled their homes because it is unsafe, but their ultimate aim is to go home. Syrians (in general) are asylum seekers, also fleeing, but fleeing a situation they don’t like, rather than the fear of being bombed. They don’t want to go back. They want to stay, get jobs, etc. That takes much more processing. Nothing to do with skin colour.

Thank you. Ignore the truth if you like.

The uk borrowed money to pay subsidies to private companies to produce “green” power. By borrowing money, the uk’s currency has been devalued. Our currency is linked to the uks currency so any devaluation of their currency devalues ours. They pay, we pay.

Already happening, regardless of wind turbines. We have already contributed towards the UKs green dream. Why should we pay twice?

If it was renovated to a good spec. and maintained properly, it is capable of generating approximately 200bhp 24/7. That is easily enough to drive a reasonably sized turbine.

You are actually correct. It is not rocket science. However, rocket science is what is required, not the ranting and bleating of greenies. Large turbines are not the answer. Buying cheap green power from uk is the answer until we can rationally and scientifically find the best answer for us. It could be nuclear. It could be geothermal. It is likely to be a combination of several sources. It could even involve the Lady Isabella. But however you look at it, massive turbines are not it.

When Caribbean islands are decimated by hurricanes, that is what they do. It is easier and quicker to restore normality (including electricity) with power than without. A nuclear warship or submarine is used to provide the power necessary. Of course, our needs are greater than what one ship can provide for emergency cover, but it is not beyond what is available or possible.

The Jersey situation was a bit of a laugh! UK jumped to their defense. With regard to blackmail, don’t underestimate the value of iom and the CIs to the UK. On the independence front, we have Peel, the gas power station, Sulby and the bio-mass plant, as they are calling incinerators these days. Plenty of resilience. Those can be phased out over time by replacing them with small turbines and solar panels. Any whining over nuclear would be ignorance, as a small nuclear plant can be housed on a ship or a barge, which is a very good place for it, as they require water for cooling. When we are done with it, just tow it away.