Environmental cost of ICE

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Emergency bottled water supplies in Bramley, Surrey after it was discovered a leak from a local Petrol station has polluted the water.

It’s not just the tail pipe emissions!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgll12v5z7xo.a...

Where is that factored into petrol prices/ tax?

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ashenfie said:

Seams a bit rich an EV driver suggesting ICE drivers pay more Tax LOL. This issue should and most likely will be paid by the Insurance company. Relatively simple but expensive, removal of soil and it's replacement, it's not like we need to replace part of the rain forest for this one. Hopefully know one suffer illness

Edited by ashenfie on Tuesday 4th June 09:26

It’s not at all simple if the local area has been polluted for some time.

Ironically in a nearby village (Shalford) a local petrol station closed and the land was redeveloped as housing. Before they could build they had to spend nearly 2 years pumping cleaning fluids through the ground to decontaminate the deep seated pollution that is inevitable with underground storage tanks.

Not having tens of thousands of litres of basically toxic waste stored underground in leaky tanks near to our houses is going to be another environmental benefit from the move to EVs (as it is small local petrol stations that will be the first to close as demand falls.)