The Poor Have To Pay While The Rich Get To Play
The majority of people do not understand or have not digested the implications of the announcement by Keir Starmer to exempt luxury sports cars from Net Zero emissions regulations while imposing strict controls on the vast majority of ordinary vehicles. The ban on petrol and diesel cars by 2030 will exempt ‘luxury vehicles’ such as McLarens, Bentleys, and Aston Martins. This net zero madness means only the wealthy will continue as normal, the poor have to pay while the rich get to play.
Starmer’s announcement reveals a deepening rift in the UK’s climate agenda, one that is less about environmental sustainability and more about reinforcing a two-tier society. Also, its now glaring obvious that normal rules of progressive taxation seem to be reversed. The wealthy are being showered with subsidies, at the same time being exempted from bans. Private jets and yachts are even exempt from carbon tax credits.
Under the policy, 23,320 supercars remain untouched, while 4.8 million vans and over 33.9 million regular vehicles used by working-class people are being targeted. This decision underscores the hypocrisy at the heart of the Net Zero campaign, exposing it as a tool for elite indulgence rather than equitable environmental reform.
The disparity is not just economic, but ideological. While the elites within the richest 1% continue to fly around in private jets and motorcades, ordinary citizens are lectured about reducing their carbon footprints, forced to pay higher taxes and comply with ever-tightening restrictions. The virtue-signaling of this privileged class masks a modern form of feudalism, where the ruling few enjoy absolute mobility and luxury, while the masses are expected to sacrifice personal freedom for a fabricated climate emergency. According to a report by Oxfam titled The Great Carbon Divide, the richest 1% are responsible for more carbon emissions than 66% of the poorest people combined. This glaring inequality makes it clear that the climate narrative is being manipulated not to save the planet, but to restructure society around a neo-feudal order.
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Beyond the social injustice, the practical implications of the policy are untenable. The UK’s current power grid is simply incapable of supporting a mass transition to electric vehicles. Millions of EVs charging simultaneously would cause rolling blackouts and systemic failures. Upgrading the infrastructure would cost hundreds of billions, requiring decades of development. Health and safety challenges would proliferate as charging cables become ubiquitous on public footpaths and shared spaces, introducing widespread hazards and legal complications. Insurance companies would be overwhelmed by accident claims, driving premiums beyond affordability. And the global supply of lithium, a critical component for EV batteries, is nowhere near sufficient to meet demand. Even if every country on Earth committed its reserves, there wouldn’t be enough to fully electrify existing vehicle fleets.
All of this points to the inescapable conclusion that the policy is not about transitioning to sustainable transport, it’s about reducing car ownership altogether. The middle and working classes are being deliberately priced and regulated off the roads, while elites maintain their freedom of movement under exclusive exemptions. This is not a failure of policy; it is the policy. Car ownership is being transformed from a democratic right into a luxury for the privileged. In place of petrol and diesel vehicles, the narrative pretends electric cars are a viable solution, while ignoring the far more sustainable alternative: hydrogen. Hydrogen-powered vehicles refuel quickly, emit only water, and don’t rely on geopolitically sensitive or ecologically destructive rare earth mining. Yet hydrogen remains sidelined, not due to inefficacy, but because it doesn’t align with the centralising, technocratic ambitions of those crafting Net Zero doctrine.
What is unfolding under the guise of environmental policy is the foundation of a digital prison system, part of a wider globalist framework aligned with Agenda 2030, one-world governance models, and total population surveillance. This is not about saving the planet; it is about control. It is about eliminating freedom of movement, taxing carbon as a means of behavioural regulation, and embedding social credit systems within daily life. The vehicle is merely the first battlefield. The endgame is nothing less than the transformation of liberal democratic societies into tightly regulated digital feudal states.
We are literally being told to our faces, without even hiding it, that rich people are exempt from climate change, it’s all just just a scam in plain sight, to fleece, punish and control the majority of us.
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