Let's see them do this with an electric car.
Posted on 02/07/2024 6:28:14 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
English comedy icon Rowan Atkinson, forever applauded for his on-screen creation Mr. Bean, has been blamed for “damaging” the reputation of electric vehicles (EVs) and contributing to slow sales simply by expressing his opinion on their future – or lack of it.
The actor was name-checked in the British House of Lords on Tuesday during its environment and climate change committee meeting, Sky News reports.
Thinktank Green Alliance outlined the main obstacles the government faces in its bid to push petrol and diesel cars to the kerb before 2035, pointing to a newspaper comment piece by the Johnny English star published in June 2023 as damaging to the cause.
The pressure group told peers in a letter an opinion piece by Atkinson damaged the cause of EV take-ups.
The 69-year-old actor’s piece was headlined: “I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter. But increasingly I feel duped.”
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Mr. Bean Strikes again!.......................Good for him!...................
I blame Benny Hill.
Man vs. Bee was hillarious.
Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals: personalize your enemy and attack. No “Gee, we’re sorry you feel that way, and how could we make it better?” No, just “It’s because of terrible people like you that our efforts to keep the world from turning into a barren crisp are failing; you will have the blood of all humanity, and indeed all life on Earth, on your hands!”
These EV companies must be run by a bunch of Gen-Z and younger Gen-Y types.
These groups rarely take responsibility for their mistakes, claim to be perpetual victims and ALL look to put the blame for their failures onto someone else. Blaming a comedy skit for slow EV car sales is retarded!!!!
Let's see them do this with an electric car.
The point of EVs was to start the process of making personal transportation too expensive for the masses.
Yes, I’ve enjoyed all his work. Too bad he has ‘retired’ and is teaching acting at some school in the UK now................
“damaging” the reputation of electric vehicles”
Ha! That happened way before Atkinson.
Kinda hard to hide the little problem of a conveyance that catches fire for no reason. Lol!
Yup, those EV bus fires in London have nuttin’ to fo with it...
Nope.
Not all all.
Rowan Atkinson has degrees in electrical engineering and a car enthusiast. He is not just some actor voicing an opinion. As an actor I always think of him as Edmund Blackadder.
What the heck is a kerb?
Rule #1 in the Leftist's Rule Book has always been "It's always someone else's fault."
How many years in prison will he get for freely expressing his opinion?
The ending of “Black Adder Goes Forth”, is still one of the most brilliant and poignant things ever put on television.
With a plan so cunning you can stick a feather on it and call it a weasel!
And they go on to utterly destroy the career of those that oppose them. They are engaged in a very hostile takeover of the world. If a yone doesn’t walk in lock-step with them, their careers and reputations are destroyed.
The left are not happy unless they are destroying something- ie: u born ba its, the elderly, people having fun and enjoying the better things in life, Christians (they are clamping down on people and their right to express their opinion in public) etc
It makes them very angry when they see People enjoying g their lives and the conve iences ,ife has to offer
Kerb your enthusiasm and curiosity. I’m guessing it’s an British curb.
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