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Cars are supposed to be the easy bit - but we're still only looking at banning non hybrids in 2040!
And actually, even those aren't that easy, because while electric cars are objectively better in some regards, they start off deeply in the red on the CO2 balance sheet thanks their own production emissions. It's really not that easy and straightforward, and as usual the actual solution is not "let's change everything a little bit to have the least amount of actual changes possible", it is "we need to fundamentally change some approaches - e.g. we need to have radically fewer cars to begin with, full stop".
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I do think you're missing a bit of the point when banging on constantly about offshore wind and electricity - this is the easy bit!
The hard bit is working out you either de-carbonise things that don't use electricity, or work out how they might use electricity in the future.
Getting everyone off gas heating is going to be really difficult. Getting trucks, planes and ships to stop using diesel is going to be difficult. Making steel only using green electricity is going to be difficult.
Cars are supposed to be the easy bit - but we're still only looking at banning non hybrids in 2040!
I know you love offshore wind, but we've had the technology to make shed loads of carbon minimal electricity for decades (nuclear) so this really isn't the difficult part. It's everything else.