Would suck if u wait a year to get car then this happens: Switzerland plans to BAN electric cars from the roads during power shortages

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Lol, I think they have their power priorities messed up, HD video and electric leaf blowers are banned before Crypto mining?
We have no idea what other items were/are in the emergency response plan. It's very possible/likely things like banning crypto mining and other usage is also in there, but didn't make the headline since it's not as sexy as bashing EVs
 

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Has there been an emergency shortage of electricity that would have fallen within the level 3 escalation the article describes within the past 10 years?

I think we'd all be kind of shocked at the powers the government has in a true emergency, and many of them are probably necessary if it's an actual end of the world event. Just because emergency plans are in place doesn't mean they'll be triggered often, or ever
I think the DM should be more shocked if there were no emergency powers in place.
 

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Many angry people sued Daily Mail, but afaik they never lost. Daily Mail albeit being provocative has proven to be very reliable.
Reliable like supporting Hitler and his Brownshirts in the 1930's on his rise to power?
 

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Seems to me, if things get to the point where banning electric car charging is necessary, not being able to drive to the shop is the least of your worries. Because, you know, freezing.

In other Daily Mail news, every single person who ate a tomato before 1900 is now DEAD! Ban tomatoes immediately! Protect the children!
 


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I think the DM should be more shocked if there were no emergency powers in place.
Do you know the problem with "emergency powers"? Eventually everything becomes an "emergency" and then they are just "powers". Most people would not want politicians to have that much power over us. I know I don't.
 

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Reliable like supporting Hitler and his Brownshirts in the 1930's on his rise to power?
Let's leave Volkswagen out of this.
 

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