In the news

energy secretary is pushing ahead with lots more electric car recharge points,
get in the fucking queue and enjoy sitting there electric car drivers
queues- lose

Thing with electric cars that I can't figure - aren't the batteries full of really harmful chemicals that are being mined in a really harmful way? How's that green? I mean, I'm no expert - just saying.

not sure about that,
I just know that more cars equals more fatties, more inactivity, more sitting around in queues, more road building/ storage/ to accomodate them, said it before, the British

LOVE to queue, let them atrophy to their hearts content

Just did a quick le google, and found this:
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/analysis/1807181/are-electric-cars-greener

Don't know how reliable the data...

Still proves bikes are best.

yeah nice one, tl:dr
anyway, we know the most energy efficient vehicle ever invented is.....

YOUR BIKE. END OF.WAKE UP MR PARLIMENTALISTARIANMAN

Electric car promotion is a ridiculous stratagem by the usual suspects to greenwash--I think Germany's car manufacturers are getting heavily into them soon. These efforts should gain no political support and other strategies should be favoured instead.