Peter-Vincent Schuld

What’s it going to be? Bummed out as a plug or driving with a plug?
I think it’s better that we pull the plug (at least for now) on the current electric drive.

Electric cars, we once knew them from the disabled and the street sweepers and if it were up to me, we would stick with it here for the time being.

A full battery for a car has a range of about 400 kilometers. For some Dutch and Flemish motorists who don’t get any further than nearby family and the boss’s parking space, this may be sufficient. But there is a large group of people who pretty much live in their cars or their trucks….the track people. They are not limited to 400 kilometres. Heating is the motto.

The more worldly person quietly drives from Brussels to the Costa’s or from Amsterdam to Norway.
The independent man is attached to his freedom. They want to take the car when it suits them.
Rightly so, no one, absolutely no one, has the right to restrict this freedom in any way.

Of course you have the happy goat wool sock who travels very idealistically by train and allows himself the privilege of taking the pedicab at the station to the meeting of the Association for the Protection of Holistic Agogen in the talk café “De Groene Tong” where people enjoy drinks made from recycled coffee grounds, second-hand tea bags and honestly grown (what the fuck it may be) soybeans, Not to mention the sale of reusable, biologically bleached and cleaned tampons. Pies man, Pies….. (linguistically correct gender-neutral spelling) Everyone wants Pies.

Enough! Let’s go back to the world where fairy tales don’t play a role. Of course, it is wise and more than wise to keep our living environment clean. But I do not believe in environmental zones and other dogmatic inventions to improve the quality of the environment.

I believe in a pragmatic approach in which our economy does not come to a standstill, in which our freedom of movement is not restricted and in which the government does not always try, for reasons whether invented or not, to rob citizens and companies of their hard-earned money through tax increases and fines if you dare to enter the environmental zone with your simmering bin.

In view of the fact that a substantial, let alone fully electric fleet is really not feasible in the Netherlands and Belgium, that this is even more unthinkable in other countries due to a lack of supply and sale of such vehicles and associated infrastructure, we will have to look at car technology.

Well, Dieselgate at Volkswagen didn’t really help. But have there not been unachievable demands placed on the car industry? I think we really need to answer that question honestly. Hasn’t the pressure to have vehicles use less fuel at the expense of the technology
to capture greenhouse gas emissions and particulate matter and temporarily store them in the vehicle? I’m just thinking.

I still see a future for the petrochemical industry. Both oil and petroleum products such as plastics.
Anyway, plastics. Every citizen is forced to offer plastic packaging separately. A significant part seems to be unsuitable for reuse and is incinerated, while technology is available to convert these plastics into fuel for vehicles. I’m not even talking about hard plastics and plastics from electronics and other utensils that are now also landfilled or incinerated worldwide. What do you mean waste? We complain a lot about whether or not plastic waste is straying. The money is literally on the streets, in garbage dumps worldwide and polluting seas! Collect and process into fuel, I would say. More plastic waste than I’d like.

Anyway, we are digressing from the subject of road transport on electricity Do you see lorries, or rather road trains running on electricity
, crossing all of God-forsaken Australia on a mega-duracell?,Do
you see lorries driving all over Europe stopping at the charging station every few hours to be recharged? Are the green fellow man aware of what such a thing costs on top of the massive tolls, environmental vignettes and inaccessible environmental zones. In the absence of an efficient and realistic technique at the moment, this image is completely utopian and has no connection to today’s reality.

But yes, maybe within a few years we will be filling up methane at home from our green bin in which we ferment all kinds of things such as gtf waste, the turds of the dog, the cat and your own, the autumn leaves, the unwanted mother-in-law, the local bullying vlogger or a caught burglar/robber that we have smashed our brains in when we find them. It can all be converted into biofuel.
What was once mistaken is no longer missed.

No, no kidding. Give technologies time to develop fully, and until such time as things can be done differently, take a pragmatic approach to the fuels we have available.

Overigens, geitenwollen sokken vormen ook biomassa en hoe langer ze gedragen zijn…. enfin ik zwijg….voor nu althans.