Climate Crisis: Are we doing enough?

[First Aspect]

It should all be built. The dates are on the link.

Well you would hope so. Companies have pulled out of projects before, and recently, I had thought.

 

[icowden]

No. Never. They want petrol, they put it in. Stop mollycoddling them.

Are you still married?

 

[Pblakeney]

Are you still married?

Happily. We both agree that mollycoddling does the children no favours in the long run.
What this has to do with climate crisis is beyond me though.

 

[icowden]

Happily. We both agree that mollycoddling does the children no favours in the long run.
What this has to do with climate crisis is beyond me though.

Nothing at all. For me, going to a petrol station / motorway services is an inconvenience. Charging the EV is not, because it does it whilst I am doing something else more interesting or enjoyable.

 

[Pblakeney]

Nothing at all. For me, going to a petrol station / motorway services is an inconvenience. Charging the EV is not, because it does it whilst I am doing something else more interesting or enjoyable.

🥱

 

[PurplePenguin]

Well you would hope so. Companies have pulled out of projects before, and recently, I had thought.

Yes after the previous contracts were not economically viable following covid. These are at a much higher price.

 

[First Aspect]

Yes after the previous contracts were not economically viable following covid. These are at a much higher price.

But still a good price? I suppose the question, a previously, will be whether they are still a good price in 3 or 4 years from now.

 

[BoldonLad]

Your kids have never once come in and said "Daaaaaaaaaaaaaad - can you go and put some petrol in my car"?

When my children passed their driving test (all age 17/18) I took each of them to nearest garage, showed them how to put petrol in, that was it. If you are old enough to drive, you are old enough to put your own petrol in.

I also showed each of them how to check/top up oil, change a wheel, top up windscreen washer.

 

[icowden]

When my children passed their driving test (all age 17/18) I took each of them to nearest garage, showed them how to put petrol in, that was it. If you are old enough to drive, you are old enough to put your own petrol in.

Yep. Done that. Youngest is still a learner so she can't go herself yet. The oldest struggles to get the lockable petrol cap off. Both of them are in school / uni and not yet in jobs, so I pay for their running costs.

 

[First Aspect]

Do young people really need to be taught? Changing a wheel, okay maybe, but washer fluid? Really? Using a petrol pump?

How are these people going to cope with things like making toast?

 

[bobzmyunkle]

but washer fluid?

Doesn't go well in the brake fluid reservoir.

How are these people going to cope with things like making toast?

I sure there's a fancy toaster in John Lewis that I'd struggle with.

 

[First Aspect]

Doesn't go well in the brake fluid reservoir.

I sure there's a fancy toaster in John Lewis that I'd struggle with.

One of them has a diagram of a windscreen on it and is easy to reach. It also smells of soap when you open it.

The other one has the same symbol as the one on the dashboard you ought to know for the theory test.

I'm touchy about the snowflakes and millennials, because at work I have to try to teach them to make fully formed sentences, think for themselves and occasionally not dump half finished stuff back to me late for me to finish because {insert unique and unavoidable personal matter here}.

My approach would be for them to learn for themselves what happens when they run out of petrol/washer fluid or ignore brake failure. It would be character forming.

 

[briantrumpet]

My approach would be for them to learn for themselves what happens when they run out of petrol/washer fluid or ignore brake failure. It would be character forming.

Reminds me of a one-time pupil who spurned my offers of marking Grade 5 Music Theory practice papers when she was preparing for the exam. She failed, and tears ensued. She entered the exam again the next term, and came to a few more classes, and sent in practice papers, which I marked, with pointers about what she needed to do. She got 95%, and actually came up to me in person to thank me afterwards, and said, with a smile on her face "I'm so glad I failed".

 

[Pblakeney]

One of them has a diagram of a windscreen on it and is easy to reach. It also smells of soap when you open it.

The other one has the same symbol as the one on the dashboard you ought to know for the theory test.

I'm touchy about the snowflakes and millennials, because at work I have to try to teach them to make fully formed sentences, think for themselves and occasionally not dump half finished stuff back to me late for me to finish because {insert unique and unavoidable personal matter here}.

My approach would be for them to learn for themselves what happens when they run out of petrol/washer fluid or ignore brake failure. It would be character forming.

Used to be a time when the first add on to buying a car was the insurance.
The second add on was a Haynes manual. 😉

 

[icowden]

My approach would be for them to learn for themselves what happens when they run out of petrol/washer fluid or ignore brake failure. It would be character forming.

I'm a bit old fashioned and don't want my 19 year old daughter to be stranded on the roadside by herself.