Fuel Duty raises about £28b but in addition there would be an extra substantial sum raised from the Vat on fuel.

That daft old bat Caroline Lucas was on the lunchtime news today and when she was asked how the Government would make up the loss all she could manage was "I'm sure they will think of something"

Not "vehicles" just cars and vans whilst the biggest polluters - buses and lorries are exempt

According to the founder of Tesla, Elon Musk, we're all living in a Simulation anyway. So who cares?!

He has some very odd ideas but as a forward thinker he's amongst the best.

With a bit of luck and a following wind the Tesla S is one of two cars on my shortlist for my next car next year

Marvellous how a politician can ban things forty years in the future.

Would Mr Gove like to impart more of his knowledge about the year 2057?

For example how will the brexit transition phase be progressing?

As a geologist said to me once, "at $30/bbl (the price at the time) we're running out of oil; at $100/bbl, there's oil everywhere."

The rise of fracking and then the dramatic improvements thereto vastly increased recoverable reserves from areas deemed uneconomic. The reason OPEC crashed the price was the shut down the US oil industry that had turn the US, in 2015, into a net exporter of oil. We're already self-sufficient in natural gas and already now exporting LNG.

Ironically, the first LNG export facilities happened relatively quickly, because they were originally meant to be import facilities. Fracking changed all that, so they flipped the plans and now we're an exporter of energy. Imagine that 5 years ago!

Oil is used for a myriad of purposes, not just fuelling and lubricating machinery, so there will still be demand in the petrochemical field. Oil is a very simple and easy way to store and transport energy; much easier than electricity or natural gas. Also, I think we're a long way away from an electric passenger (or military) aeroplane. There's plenty of room for oil in the energy landscape of the future, we'll just use a lot less of it which is good because it's still finite, regardless of the price.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.