General Chat

So to sum it up then electric cars are going down the drain?

no, the reference was to the comment about paving over a garden
being unsightly...and no good for the environment.

Perhaps RTR should look at this:

https://www.islington.gov.uk/~/media/sharepoint-lists/public-records/planningandbuildingcontrol/information/guidance/
20162017/20160912designconservationguides09
frontareaparkingandcrossovers.pdf

Ah but if there was a nice little lawn the rain water wouldn't go down the drain

The green stuff is rapidly disappearing around here we used to live in a pretty little village but it is now full of bricks,paving and unsightly housing :-| :-|

interesting reading...now wasn't something said about lost parking on the street so a dropped curb could be added?

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bob did you just delete????

Bob to answer your deleted question there is an Islington in Hampshire but not Dorset that I'm aware of.....but what's a boundary or two between friends.....funny enough near Bentley now that's a posh car isn't it??

Around here - and it's a short walk across the motorway bridge to the South Downs - planning permission for fully paving over front gardens is now declined, due to the need for 'green' spaces :-S

Which is a bit of an oxymoron.

I suppose he could paint it green to make it look pretty....

Not interested in the car but Myst and Riven yes.

Now if Zork was reissued I'd be in my element :-D

So the chemistry would work would it....elements and all....

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I can see into the future me.....I can see this thread not being here in the morning....

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OR......there'll be a right telling off and we'll be made to see the errors of our ways....wonder if we'll have to go on a course...

yes I did....I MUST read a thread properly.....

Pay attention in future young man !

I won't be paving over the ( small ) front garden for several reasons.

I don't as a general thing like the trend to pave over gardens for parking / trendy look. I like the raggle taggle neglected look wiith self seeding plants such as saxigraga adn trad garden ornaments such as rusty bikes..

The uber rare London hedgehog has a wintertime nest near the cellar entry cars coming and going could upset them.

Islington council are installing more and more street CPs and so0me supermarkets have them.

The BMW i3S comes with an optional petrol engne which recharges the batteries extending the range.

I am not sure that this motor would be a very good choice for personal purchase but it ticks all the boxes for business use up to 50 miles from the capital. Businesses do not purchase cars vans and lorries they lease them.

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/bmw/i3

Due to the way the grid works it is impossible to say what the power source is for any given moment or location - wind, gas, solar etc. Coal is pretty well gone. It is a sure thing that electric and hybrid vehicles emitt far less pollution in cities than conventional cars which is a big issue for people's health, especially kids the infirm and the old. For sure the i3S is a lot more eco friendly than the Jag.

The writing is on the wall for the internal combustion engine. Its only salvation would have been a hydrogen fuel distribution network which has failed to win support.