Yes they do.

Leroy Jenkins brushing off his CV

Maybe educate yourself?

European auto makers and not sbubsidised to the same extent and in fact most subsidies are illegal under EU trading rules. Even in domestic markets we have to pay tax on new EV purchases, typically 20 percent.

Chinese government support of ev manufacturers has been massive and is contributing to their unsustainable national debt (that and building massive infrastructure that can’t be used because they are falling down).

It’s well documented, here’s one of many articles:

China signals it will pull plug on subsidies for EVs with five-year plan exclusion - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/china-signals-it-will-pull-plug-subsidies-evs-with-five-year-plan-exclusion-2025-10-29/

The CSIS research based on the business filings and Chinese government reports puts the subsidy at between 28 and 32 percent depending on the manufacturer and target market.

https://www.csis.org/

This is all part of China’s strategy to basically undercut the opposition for long enough that they will go bankrupt.

What will happen when there is no competition? Well, you only have to look at the current prices of computer components for the answer to that.

Is it the reading or the comprehension you are struggling with?

Either way I’m sure when you finish school you will understand.

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Adverts for BY D own products are still adverts.

Truth hurts?

Ok you do you.

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I leased a BYD seal for the last few weeks as an extended test drive and it has adverts on the screen you use to change the climate control so…

Right now BYD are being so heavily subsidised by the Chinese government that they are imported into the US and Europe at less than production and shipping cost.

Believe me when I say that as soon as they have enough market share they will be doing this, and because china are hyper-capitalist when it comes to exports it will be more intrusive and more inconvenient.

I fully understand that there is no “UK reserve” it’s basically my job to understand this. I have to simplify things for a shorter post, though.

Here’s a lesson for anyone interested: there are only a few areas in the world that produce natural gas that can be used in our gas supply system with domestic refineries and distribution. There are sources further afield but without connection to a pipeline they are cost prohibitive. A commodity is only as valuable as your ability to deliver it.

Areas of natural gas readily accessible in Europe are the north sea, Baltic states and Russia. So whilst it is a “global market” in theory, the reality is price of natural gas for UK is effectively dominated by European continental availability.

Europe as a whole doesn’t have enough gas without buying it from Russia, which is currently not sensible because Russia is using that money to fund a war against Europe. That is why the price is high.

If Europe, including UK are able to release more natural gas it will reduce the overall cost of gas a little bit (maybe a lot depending on other countries contribution and effectiveness of reducing gas usage) and also reduce the amount of money that goes to Russia.

The poorest people in our country are disproportionately affected by the natural gas supply crisis, the cause of which sits in the Kremlin.

Here’s a lesson for anyone interested: there are only a few areas in the world that produce natural gas that can be used in our gas supply system with domestic refineries and distribution. There are sources further afield but without connection to a pipeline they are cost prohibitive. A commodity is only as valuable as your ability to deliver it.

Areas of natural gas readily accessible in Europe are the north sea, Baltic states and Russia. So whilst it is a “global market” in theory, the reality is price of natural gas for UK is effectively dominated by European continental availability.

Europe as a whole doesn’t have enough gas without buying it from Russia, which is currently not sensible because Russia is using that money to fund a war against Europe. That is why the price is high.

Increasing UK supply of natural gas will offset energy costs ultimately reducing the cost for poorest people in the country.

Even the most optimistic estimates for creating a fully carbon neutral energy grid are 20 years away, that’s best case scenario but the green party are working with reform to object to the infrastructure that is needed to make that happen.

Explain to me how helping poor people is bad?

More good news from no.10

Here’s an alternative article without a paywall: BBC News - Burnham to scrap digital ID to focus on ‘helping with cost of living’ - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y08z25q8eo

That’s all very well but 1) I’m reading this using firefox with clean cookies and.ublock origin and the block is still there. And 2) a cookie paywall is a defacto paywall.

For those of you wondering if you might have been affected but can’t find out because the article is paywalled: Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and Halifax are the ones affected.

They have run out of money and apparently will now only build 550m of it!

All at the low low cost of eradicating people you find genetically inferior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China

Things you never knew existed: https://priceofastamp.co.uk/

It looks like stamp prices have increased slightly above inflation but when you consider how few letters are actually sent since a stamp was a few pence it kind of makes sense. You can send a letter from one end of the country to another for £1.65 and I don’t think that’s too bad!

Maybe because no-one knows about it because whatever it is is locked behind a privacy wall.

Interesting to see what happens when people vaguely competent are running the show, isn’t it?

Good.