Sneaky Blinder
Free Member
We've recently retired early, hopefully early enough, to enjoy a few years of travelling and exploring.
We used to take 2 foreign holdays every year, and our beloved dog was deposited into an excellent, but expensive, pet hotel.
We've now taken the plunge, and spent a large sum of money on a portable, mobile, comfortable hotel suite that's dog friendly.
There is so much of this beautiful island, and Ireland, that neither my partner nor I have visited, it really is a disgrace on our doorstep.
So, my point ?
Just consider the following:
The Earth is a gift for all of us, especially future generations, and should be cherished and protected.
www.newscientist.com
Climate change is real, not a myth, and we can all see it it, if we open our eyes.
climate.nasa.gov
We all have a responsibility to curb our behaviour, to help future generations, despite the misgivings, oversights, or wrong judgements, of our forefathers.
The motorhome market is niche, and as a new potential buyer, you hold all of the cards.
New sales, in 2018, were just less than 15,000. EV & Hydrid car sales were just less than 10,000, and total new car regs were a wee bit less than 150,000.
www.express.co.uk
But again, like many tabloibs striving for sales, they never put things into context.
These are official, reliable figures...
Q1) How many vehicles are there in Great Britain?
A1) At the end of June 2019, there were 38.7 million vehicles licensed for use on the roads in Great Britain.
Cars make up the majority of licensed vehicles. There were 31.8 million cars (82.3 per cent), 4.1 million LGVs (10.6 per cent), 0.51 million HGVs (1.3 per cent), 1.3 million motorcycles (3.4 per cent), 0.15 million buses & coaches (0.4 per cent) and 0.76 million other vehicles (2.0 per cent) licensed at the end of June 2019.
All body types apart from buses & coaches saw an increase in overall registered vehicles since the end of June 2018. The largest percentage increase was for LGVs at 3.1 per cent, followed by cars at 1.1 per cent, and motorcycles at 0.9 per cent and HGVs at 0.8 per cent. Buses & coaches fell by 2.3 per cent, which reflects the decline in new registrations.
The total number of licensed vehicles has increased in all but one year (1992) since the end of the Second World War. From 1997 to 2007, the annual growth in licensed vehicles averaged 670 thousand per year, although from the mid-2000s it begun to slow somewhat. Following the recession of 2008-9, growth slowed further but did not stop, averaging 170 thousand per year between 2007 and 2012. Since 2012, the average growth has been 610 thousand per year, but this growth has slowed in recent years with the reduction of new registrations.
Source: Vehicle Licensing Statistics: April to June 2019
Historical details about the number of licensed vehicles can be viewed in table VEH0101.
I have no axe to grind, I am not affilliated to any club, I have no children, nor grandchildren to bequeath to.
An animal charity will benefit from that.
Point is, we're still separating our household waste, worrying about unnecessary packaging, thinking about what we're purchasing, recycling, ...and we've bought our first motorhome !
We used to take 2 foreign holdays every year, and our beloved dog was deposited into an excellent, but expensive, pet hotel.
We've now taken the plunge, and spent a large sum of money on a portable, mobile, comfortable hotel suite that's dog friendly.
There is so much of this beautiful island, and Ireland, that neither my partner nor I have visited, it really is a disgrace on our doorstep.
So, my point ?
Just consider the following:
The Earth is a gift for all of us, especially future generations, and should be cherished and protected.
It turns out planes are even worse for the climate than we thought
Aeroplane contrails have a larger warming effect than all the CO2 emitted by planes that has accumulated in the atmosphere since the first ever flight
Climate change is real, not a myth, and we can all see it it, if we open our eyes.
Evidence - NASA Science
Takeaways The rate of change since the mid-20th century is unprecedented over millennia. Earth’s climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 800,000 years, there have been eight cycles of ice ages and warmer periods, with the end of the last ice age about 11,700 years ago marking...
climate.nasa.gov
We all have a responsibility to curb our behaviour, to help future generations, despite the misgivings, oversights, or wrong judgements, of our forefathers.
The motorhome market is niche, and as a new potential buyer, you hold all of the cards.
New sales, in 2018, were just less than 15,000. EV & Hydrid car sales were just less than 10,000, and total new car regs were a wee bit less than 150,000.
Caravan and motorhome numbers on Britain's roads set to SOAR
THE number of caravans and motorhomes clogging up Britain's roads is set to soar by more than 50,000 in the next five years, new figures claim.
But again, like many tabloibs striving for sales, they never put things into context.
These are official, reliable figures...
Q1) How many vehicles are there in Great Britain?
A1) At the end of June 2019, there were 38.7 million vehicles licensed for use on the roads in Great Britain.
Cars make up the majority of licensed vehicles. There were 31.8 million cars (82.3 per cent), 4.1 million LGVs (10.6 per cent), 0.51 million HGVs (1.3 per cent), 1.3 million motorcycles (3.4 per cent), 0.15 million buses & coaches (0.4 per cent) and 0.76 million other vehicles (2.0 per cent) licensed at the end of June 2019.
All body types apart from buses & coaches saw an increase in overall registered vehicles since the end of June 2018. The largest percentage increase was for LGVs at 3.1 per cent, followed by cars at 1.1 per cent, and motorcycles at 0.9 per cent and HGVs at 0.8 per cent. Buses & coaches fell by 2.3 per cent, which reflects the decline in new registrations.
The total number of licensed vehicles has increased in all but one year (1992) since the end of the Second World War. From 1997 to 2007, the annual growth in licensed vehicles averaged 670 thousand per year, although from the mid-2000s it begun to slow somewhat. Following the recession of 2008-9, growth slowed further but did not stop, averaging 170 thousand per year between 2007 and 2012. Since 2012, the average growth has been 610 thousand per year, but this growth has slowed in recent years with the reduction of new registrations.
Source: Vehicle Licensing Statistics: April to June 2019
Historical details about the number of licensed vehicles can be viewed in table VEH0101.
I have no axe to grind, I am not affilliated to any club, I have no children, nor grandchildren to bequeath to.
An animal charity will benefit from that.
Point is, we're still separating our household waste, worrying about unnecessary packaging, thinking about what we're purchasing, recycling, ...and we've bought our first motorhome !
