Important to know that real-world testing shows that PHEVs are rarely plugged in and just burn oil much of the time

Except people don't plug in their hybrids and run them on fossil fuels. Hybrids are yet another way the FF industry keeps itself going while pretending things are being fixed

People need to hire vehicles occasionally rather than buy more polluting vehicles against some rare edge case

If anyone finds themselves in this position, you should ignore everything else and just look at the ERTO size, which should be on the tyre itself. This is a standard way of measuring tyres and wheels, and is much better than the old ways

Here's a really good analysis of how it's not true the Boomers have all the money - there are lots of very comfortable Millennials too. It's more complicated than people like to think

Didn't want to walk more than the absolute minimum distance, I suspect. And/or didn't want their precious PCP baby out of their eyesight

It also feels like a way to funnel bribes to politicians in plain sight, by paying them massive sums to rant at a camera with barely anyone watching

Woodlice

m'=m-45. Fixed it for you

The main alternative would be state funding, proportional to vote share. The big question would be how one establishes a new party

Loads of people - probably most people - didn't have Sky. When did shoveling cash at Murdoch become some sort of minimum entry level for society? Not having a TV would be vaguely interesting, but not having Sky means nothing

Hark at Simeon Stylites here