The government is following through on the pre-election promise and Keir Starmer said "I am determined to back British brilliance. Now more than ever UK businesses and working people need a Government that steps up, not stands aside."That means action, not words. So today I am announcing bold changes to the way we support our car industry."By the end of the year, brands must have at least 28 per cent of new sales come from zero emission cars. Any company producing more polluting petrol or diesel vehicles previously faced a £15,000 fine, although this will now be cut to £12,000 per car.GBN members are skeptical of Labour's electric vehicle revolution... PW said "EVs are not the future - it is a BIG CON. They are not environmentally friendly. A better technology is artificial fuel (made from air) and combustion engines can run on this without modification."Jaquie Briggs commented "EV's will like the way of most technology be defunct within a decade! If they haven't self ignited before then! Remember the Sinclair? LOL! Same as the "windmill" technology Ed Minibrain has spent millions on has already been superseded by a far superior module which is more efficient and produces more energy."Ann Robinson added "The government are banking on everyone ditching their petrol and diesel cars by 2030 irrespective of whether we want to or not. Nobody is buying electric cars, they don’t want them. It won’t happen. Anyone remember the Sinclair C5?"COMMENT NOW - Do you believe that electric vehicles are a con?
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00:00And funny enough there's a speech around about 3.40 today we're going to cover
00:04that. Sakia Starmer with the Chief of NATO Defence. I mean we have a great
00:10defence agreement with NATO. Already NATO predates the European Union by decades.
00:14What on earth is all that about? But I wanted to ask you in particular Lord
00:18McKinley about net zero alignment. Now I know you're the chair of the net zero
00:23scrutiny group and I know last week you were speaking in exasperated tones
00:27about the fact Ed Miliband is getting quadrilla to concrete over its drill
00:31it's drilling sites. There goes the entire British shale industry at the
00:36drop of a hat. And the alignment with the European Union on net zero rules that's
00:41what caused the collapse of the Norwegian government last week. Because
00:45it means that whatever we do anywhere in our agreement with the European Union we
00:49have to adhere to strict net zero laws. And it's things like this it's creeping
00:54bureaucratic red tape Lord McKinley. I thought we were clear of. Well exactly
01:00there's two things. We've got the emission trading scheme. We used to be
01:03part of the EU wide one while we were EU members. We've now got our own trading
01:09scheme. That's not to say it's a good scheme because what it does every pound
01:12that is paid in a trade cost of these type of schemes costs money. It costs you
01:20and I money. It means gas is more expensive. It means everything we do is
01:23more expensive. Now perversely the UK one for many years has been more
01:27expensive than the EU one. Just currently the EU one is more expensive than ours
01:34but that's the way it goes. But I mean it would be a scheme by which we have got
01:38no control. We had very little control while we were one voice out of 28 when
01:44we were EU members. We're not EU members anymore but it seems to me that our PM
01:49wants to sign up to something in which we don't even have a voice at all. But
01:55perversely I mean we are banning cars from 2030 or new petrol and diesel. The
02:01EU has actually pushed it out to 2035. So on some things maybe it's not as mad
02:06as mad Miliband but you know these things should be under our control, our
02:10democratic control and you know my view on net zero. It's the stuff of yesteryear.
02:14It is a Monty Python dead parrot. We should move on and get cheap energy like
02:20the rest of the world is doing. We should be on drill baby drill. We have a very
02:24very sound potential gas field for fracking. As you quite rightly said I
02:31work very hard with the government pleading within my government to stop
02:35that concrete cap going on Quadrillion Wells. Now that has been rescinded and
02:41they're going to have to spend multiple million pounds plugging those
02:44potentials for UK gas and all the while we'll be buying more and more gas from
02:50Qatar and the USA and other countries. I mean the way we're going we'll run out
02:55of football clubs for Qatar to buy but we'll have to meet that when we come to
03:01it. But no our energy policy is truly mad and I think where Trump is going I'm
03:06hoping we may follow. We might actually see that it's rather good for economy to
03:11have low priced energy. It's rather good for consumers that are feeling the pinch
03:15to have low priced energy. It's perfectly possible and a really
03:19interesting study I saw just last week. Over the last five years or so our
03:25consumers have paid 59 billion pounds more in domestic energy costs than the
03:33equivalent if we had US energy costs. That's 59 billion pounds that consumers
03:38could do similarly.