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New homes in England to have electric car chargers by law:
New homes and buildings in England will be required by law to install electric vehicle charging points from next year, the prime minister is set to announce.
The government said the move will see up to 145,000 charging points installed across the country each year.
New-build supermarkets, workplaces and buildings undergoing major renovations will also come under the new law.
The move comes as the UK aims to switch to electric cars, with new petrol and diesel cars sales banned from 2030.
A turkey in every pot, and a charge point in every garage...
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Tuesday November 23 2021, @09:19PM (2 children)
That idea is largely BS. Baby boomers, by far, are the group most likely to travel and be able to afford it comfortably. [thewanderingrv.com]
For the most part, the reason younger people can't afford houses is because, in inflation-adjusted terms, their pay is substantially lower than their elders got for doing the same job, their rents are much higher than their elders paid for living in the same flat, and houses are about 2.5 times the amount their elders paid 50 years ago.
You saved your money and bought a house? Great, good for you. So did I, and I even managed to do it without a mortgage, by my mid-30's. But that was in large part because I was one of the minority of millennials who had significant disposable income after paying for such luxuries as a roof over my head and 2-3 meals a day.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 24 2021, @04:33AM (1 child)
At least in America, we must admit that the main reason for our economic dominance in the 1950s and 60s was that the rest of the world was in ashes from WW2. After they rebuilt, America faced serious economic competition. Plus industrialization of the poor parts of the country was complete by then, and the easy economic gains from that could not be repeated. Feel free to correct me or call me full of beans. I won't be bothered either way.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 24 2021, @05:41AM
Don't forget the 70s and 80s. Those were the times when the labor-management relation went super toxic, failing to realize that other parts of the world have caught up to us, fully capable of competing and out-competing us.
We've got nobody to blame but ourselves.