thirdcrank wrote:... Tens of thousands of people travel to another town to do a job that is done in their own town by someone else. ...
True but possibly an underestimate. I've posted on another thread that a couple of weeks ago, two chaps sub-contracting for an insurance company drove from Brum to my home in Leeds to fix my rainwater drains. IMO hybrids are a bit of a drop-in-the-ocean sort of solution. They just use less diesel/petrol but don't tackle any of the other things listed above.
If the cost of transport was CORRECT ( i.e. much higher ) then locality of labour and goods would be high priority.
It is only because the cost of the intangibles is externalised/socialised, that such nonsense (above) is normal and acceptable.
The ultimate price will be paid in the future and will very high.
Silly people.