London to Edinburgh by electric car: it was quicker by stagecoach

The BBC - in its haste to jam any greeny project down throats - boasted that it took one of their reporters a mere four days to drive from London to Edinburgh in an electric car. This included up to 10 hours to "recharge" the batteries. Back  in the 1830s, it took stagecoaches half the time to do the journey, even when they had to stop over 50 times to change horses! Now I see the wisdom in women who hoard old clothes - everything, it appears, does come back into fashion eventually!

Stagecoaches also had more room for passengers - via Moonbattery.

In its obsessive desire to promote the virtues of electric cars, the BBC proudly showed us last week how its reporter Brian Milligan was able to drive an electric Mini from London to Edinburgh in a mere four days – with nine stops of up to 10 hours to recharge the batteries (with electricity from fossil fuels).

What the BBC omitted to tell us was that in the 1830s, a stagecoach was able to make the same journey in half the time, with two days and nights of continuous driving. This did require 50 stops to change horses, but each of these took only two minutes, giving a total stopping time of just over an hour and a half.

Considering that horse power was carbon-free, emitting only organic fertiliser along the way, isn’t it time the eco-conscious BBC became more technologically savvy?

Fast becoming something of a modest national joke is the Comment is Free section of The Guardian’s website, which supposedly gives readers the right to comment on items by the paper’s contributors. The joke is that the paper then employs a team of ruthless moderators to censor any comments which they dislike, however politely and rationally these may be put.

Last week Bob Ward, who is employed by the Grantham Institute to act as a PR man and general attack dog on behalf of the global warming industry, wrote a piece bemoaning the lack of media coverage given to the claim that 2010 was the warmest year in history. Scores of the readers’ comments which then flooded in to disagree were duly marked “deleted”. Comment may be free – but only, it seems, so long as it toes The Guardian’s party line.

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