'How can normal working class people afford Net Zero?' furious London cabbie blasts Energy Minister

Working-class Brits think Net Zero is a “fantasy world” that will hit them in the wallets, the Energy Secretary has been warned.
Sun Cabbie Grant Davies warned Tory Claire Coutinho the crippling costs of going green are unaffordable to most normal people.
Grilled on this week’s edition of Never Mind the Ballots, Grant hit out: “There’s working class people who can’t put a tenner on the electric metre and you’re saying we’ve got to buy a heat pump for £13,000?
“Even with the discount it comes to eight or nine grand. It’s a sort of fantasy world, isn’t it?”
But Ms Coutinho insisted she had slowed down Net Zero plans to help Brits catch up with the cost of replacing boilers and fossil fuel cars with green alternatives.
She told The Sun: “We are the first country to have halved emissions out of the top 20 largest economies in the world. So we’re doing very well at this.
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[@lastminutewonder9602]

I can't believe the British people let themselves be abused financially like this! Why r you taking this?

[@phooogle]

We're not really. No one except the mega rich are installing heat pumps.

[@daseteam]

Well done, Sun. Appealing to the illiterati. Why not man up and explain it to them?

[@sebastiansonata68]

sun FANTASY NEWS.

[@teetrotter2973]

How about FO!!

[@Storm.Z.4u]

If cabbies put all their fares through the books they would easily afford the changes.

[@steveeagle760]

So how do they avoid that with card payments which most fares are??

[@lostinpa-dadenduro7555]

They can’t. And that’s the point.

[@frosthoe]

It doesn't help that the government is applying law relevant to modern times, and your driving a 40 yr old cab that burns 1 litre of oil a day and leaks another 1 on the roads for good measure. They should inspect and set emissions tiers. If your clean, LOW tax. If your vehicle is emissions dirty? Higher tax bracket. See, its not hard...

[@CatherineElizabethCharlesworth]

Amanda Abbington is a Saint.

[@avrohalt9133]

she is from a different world to real people why not connect all the hot air she spouts to one of her new heat systems.Anyway she be out of a job by the 5th of July. But really are the others any better. Were Screwed

[@affordablehousing9116]

Garbage politician as usual.

[@First-Last_name]

Long live Palestine 🇵🇸 💙

[@jessicastevens538]

Imagine crying that your government doesn't give you a big enough discount on your heat pump instead of being mad at the company charging you the 8k still after discount for the heat pump in the first place. Grow TF up UK do the work yourself and get it done then quit your crying.

[@jessicastevens538]

And again crying a cabbie can't afford a telsa like the government controls the prices of the car in the first place. Your mad at inflation brotha don't take it up with the energy minister take up with your financial sector for destroying your currency.