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WRITTEN BY ANDREW STUTTAFORD ON JUN 6, 2023. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS

‘I Feel A Little Duped’: Even Mr. Bean Seems Done With Electric Vehicles

Rowan Atkinson, Mr. Bean (or, if you prefer, and I do, Blackadder) is worried about climate change, which he refers to as a “crisis,” has a couple of engineering degrees, and loves cars.

He was also early, he writes in The Guardian, to buy a hybrid and then early to buy an electric car (if we exclude the fact that EVs were the auto-industry leaders at the beginning of the last century until they lost out to, ahem, a superior technology).


Atkinson likes electric cars, and his experience has been good (“notwithstanding our poor charging infrastructure”).

But:

https://climatechangedispatch.com/i-feel-a-little-duped-even-mr-bean-seems-done-with-electric-vehicles/
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address