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20 years ago would have been great. Not doing it for another 20 years would be worse.

Let's take the victories where we can.

Considering where car manufacturers are now with their electric platforms I think 10 years from now would be ok and 5 years possible. Sometimes you just have to rip off the plaster.

I bet all EU car makers would be very happy to do that. The only problem is: where do you get the batteries and renewable energy from?

The lobbying efforts done by car makers paint a very different picture.

You get the batteries and the renewable energy by building factories that produce batteries and by building wind turbines and solar panels. It's not rocket science.

This is not a victory. We are already past the point where passive measures are enough. We need to take all possible passive measures immediately (i.e. within the current term of whatever political bodies are relevant), and start looking at what active measures can be safely and economically deployed. Allowing politicians to promise action in the future (i.e. beyond their current term of office) is an absolute and total defeat.

And we've been saying this for decades, nothing happens. That's the sad reality. Any progression on this front is, in my book, a victory.

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