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London to Edinburgh by electric car: it was quicker by stagecoach
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| Christopher Booker
Posted on 01/30/2011 1:40:48 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The BBC's stunt of taking an electric Mini to Edinburgh reveals just how impractical rechargeable cars are, writes Christopher Booker
In its obsessive desire to promote the virtues of electric cars, the BBC proudly showed us last week how its reporter Brian Milligan was able to drive an electric Mini from London to Edinburgh in a mere four days – with nine stops of up to 10 hours to recharge the batteries (with electricity from fossil fuels).
What the BBC omitted to tell us was that in the 1830s, a stagecoach was able to make the same journey in half the time, with two days and nights of continuous driving. This did require 50 stops to change horses, but each of these took only two minutes, giving a total stopping time of just over an hour and a half.
Considering that horse power was carbon-free, emitting only organic fertiliser along the way, isn’t it time the eco-conscious BBC became more technologically savvy?
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: energy; globalwarminghoax; scotland; unitedkingdom
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To: NormsRevenge; steelyourfaith; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; tubebender; Carry_Okie; Brad's Gramma; ...
LOL...Back to the horses....and the Stagecoaches.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Who knew the Amish would be the cutting edge in technology?
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posted on
01/30/2011 1:44:13 PM PST
by
brownsfan
(D - swift death of the republic, R - lingering death for the republic.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Puts one in mind of Johnson’s quip about the finest prospect a Scotsman sees being the high road that leads him to London.
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posted on
01/30/2011 1:45:55 PM PST
by
Argus
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Millions of horses would show them that cars ain’t so bad.
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posted on
01/30/2011 1:47:24 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Four days to drive less than 400 miles? That’s the progressives for ya!
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posted on
01/30/2011 1:49:17 PM PST
by
LibFreeOrDie
(Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Top Gear guys should have a lot of fun with this.
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posted on
01/30/2011 1:49:29 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
To: The Comedian
Ain't this the greatest headline you ever did read??
LOL!
To: GeronL
I think we can burn the dung..
Oh no...no burning laws would win...
We carry bury the dung but E-coli might get into the ground water.
We can grind it and put it into something that we ship to China..:-)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; smoothsailing
Hey Government Motors, have you thought about making coaches? LOL!
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posted on
01/30/2011 1:57:12 PM PST
by
jazusamo
(His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
To: LibFreeOrDie
they actaully wrote a story about how impressed they were that they could go 400 miles in 4 days???
you can almost WaLK that if you had to
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posted on
01/30/2011 1:58:04 PM PST
by
Mr. K
(Empty, Stupid Happy Talk is NOT 'Reaganesque'!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This is the whole purpose of the greenies. their life work is to send us back to the stone age.
Maybe they’re kinned to the muzzies.
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posted on
01/30/2011 2:00:10 PM PST
by
SouthTexas
(Is it time for tea yet?)
To: brownsfan
Who knew the Amish would be the cutting edge in technology? Well the Bible said the "meek" would inherent the earth... I understand how now
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posted on
01/30/2011 2:01:11 PM PST
by
tophat9000
(.............................. BP + BO = BS ...........................Formula for a disaster...)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The BBC should come over here and show how you can get from LA to New York in just 28 days!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
381 miles in 10 days.
Wow, I’m an out of shape fat man and I know for a fact that I could beat that with a bicycle.
At a leisurely 10mph for 6 hours a day, I would make the trip in less than 6.5 days.
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posted on
01/30/2011 2:05:44 PM PST
by
SampleMan
(If all of the people currently oppressed shared a common geography, bullets would already be flying.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fractal Trader; FrPR; enough_idiocy; meyer; Normandy; Whenifhow; ...
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posted on
01/30/2011 2:06:42 PM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
To: SampleMan
Oh, my mistake they made it in 4 days. I’d have to ride a whole 8 hours a day on the bicycle to match that.
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posted on
01/30/2011 2:07:37 PM PST
by
SampleMan
(If all of the people currently oppressed shared a common geography, bullets would already be flying.)
To: jazusamo; Ernest_at_the_Beach
Hey Government Motors, have you thought about making coaches? LOL! I've got it! Battery-powered mechanical horses to pull the coaches!
To: wally_bert
The Top Gear guys should have a lot of fun with this. I can't wait to hear Clarkson go to town on this!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Electric cars are NOT non-polluting. They just move the pollution to electricity generation plants.
As Rush noted, they are really coal burning cars sine more that 50% of all electricity in the USA comes from coal.
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posted on
01/30/2011 2:13:58 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(The TOTUS-reader is a Judas Goat, leading the American sheeple to the slaugherhouse /Parmy)
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