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This thread is a bit GOGSy so I wasn't going to engage, but here's my view anyway.

I worked for oil companies for a solid 30 years. 
If Greta T. Is guarding the gates of heaven by the time I get there, I'm hellbound for sure. 

I drive a 2 litre petrol Golf GTi mk5 and will replace it when the new arises, however the car is :
- Still solid at 17 years old and at 110k  miles
- easily capable of the 10k per year I drive
- complies with london  Ulez so no charge for me to drive into the outskirts of London (which I do  weekly to race at LSCC.)


Electric vehicles won't solve the  congestion, parking or fatalities associated with cars. 
In the end , government policy drives our car buying decisions (including the decision of whether to even own a car)
Government policy drives clean energy generation but with idiots like grant schnapps blocking progress, what chance?

EVs are not a pollution free technology,  they are are "pollution elsewhere" technology until we reach a point where 100% of electricity generation is carbon emissions free. 
Don't try to tell me that "carbon capture" will solve this. It's been pedalled for decades as the solution yet no large scale carbon capture is a in place as of today.

If you want real insight into the subject of fossil fuels, take a look, at the BBC documentary  "big oil versus the world" On iplayer.
I recently saw an advert ( packaged as a documentary) on the jaguar EV. Jaguar seemed very pleased at how "integrated" the batteries are into the car fabrication.
Integrated means impossible to replace economically. 

Diesel? 
One of the very few subjects where Jeremy Clarkson and I agree : "the fuel of the devil" 
Never have (and never will) own a diesel

AlanW

PS
I take it as a FACT that we have to stop pumping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere

Thank you AlanW.
You are absolutely correct, whereby nothing is l pollution free, just by existing we produce pollution (see my methane "joke")... ;-)  

Don't get me started on all the carbon capture, hydrogen, e-fuel/synth fuel stuff... These are all technologies we desperately need but their usage and capability to cause an impact is vastly exaggerated...