I did say gas (not petrol) in one post, Nigel! And I tend to think that we are all divided by Donuel's indulgent and obscurantist language...

Electric cars are not the panacea to save the world. You have to make the bloody things, you have to generate the electricity, you have to mine rare metals for the batteries in environmentally-destructive ways and they don't go far enough on a charge, etc. But I still might get one once my owld Focus snuffs it. Public transport, great. But here in Pastyshire it's almost non-existent in any useful form, and, thanks to Beeching, the biggest political vandal who ever bestrode the country, the nearest railway to me is at Bodmin Parkway, an hour's drive. You can't ban cars round here unless you want to depopulate Cornwall! Solutions, please...?