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Would you buy it or not?

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Don't buy
    Fortunately I won’t see the day when electric cars are compulsory, for me, it’s not the building of the car, it’s those poor little children collecting the mineral to go in it’s battery. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Whatever happened to solar powered cars?  There must be a lot of the world where they'd work and yes, it's time societies like ours which have outlawed child labour at home recognise the immorality of buying goods from countries where it is the norm and exert pressure on others to do the same.

    As for families in the UK and Europe needing food banks, that is a shameful failure of government, education and common sense and a whole other subject. 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Well I got one without adding to Mr D's bulging coffers. I'm really pleased with it and there was even a slight tussle over who was going to 'drive' it so we agreed to one floor each to put it through its paces.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497

    B3 said:
    Well I got one without adding to Mr D's bulging coffers.
    5 finger discount? ;)
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    More like two finger salute ;)
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Obelixx said:
    Whatever happened to solar powered cars?  There must be a lot of the world where they'd work and yes,
    Purely solar powered cars would only work in daylight.  Any which use solar to charge the batteries have exactly the same problems as all others in the need to obtain the components to create the batteries in the first place.  Until batteries have been developed to the stage where I can fully recharge in under 5 minutes, and can then drive 400 miles before recharging again, I won't consider taking that route.
  • Don't buy
    An interesting question. I think it would depend on what those politics were. If he just voted for a different party to me, I’d probably buy it. But if it was a particular issue that I felt strongly about, I probably wouldn’t. But you called him an ******* and I certainly wouldn’t  buy from someone I felt that way about.  
    And just to add to the vacuum cleaner bit, I agree that Dysons are *ahem*.... rubbish. Love my Henry though. 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Don't buy
    Hostafan1 said:
    Lyn said:
    An iPad /phone needs 10grms a car needs 15kgs. 


     "In the third quarter of FY2018 around 11.55 million iPads were sold worldwide."
    https://www.statista.com/statistics/269915/global-apple-ipad-sales-since-q3-2010/
    "Over 350 million iPads have been sold since 2010. "

    It all adds up !
    Thank you for the research, I’m very pleased to hear that, more iPads or phones mean less laptops and pc’c which have very big batteries in comparison. 
    We have a 2010 iPad, still going strong, can’t  get you tube now and it hadn’t got a camera, but everything else is still going strong. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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