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Morning everybody.

Welcome along to your free podcast for today, Wednesday, January the 18th.

And before we go any further, it's bloody freezing out there.

I don't go to what anybody says.

It was, although actually when I came out yesterday morning,

because I've decided to leave it as late as possible before I come out and get in the car, because,

you know, I'm just, there's no point standing there freezing yourself to death. And it has been

really cold. So, you know, those people who are sort of saying, oh, I don't know how much the bill's going to be, Steve, I don't want to put the electric on and the fires and all the rest of it.

You need to wrap up. You really do because if it's as cold inside your place as it is outside, you're in big trouble.

And of course, the problem is with me, I get a number of cars which are electric.

And what do they not put on? The heating. The reason being it drinks the

battery. So if you've got an all electric car, the chances are you're sitting there freezing your

bits off because you can't afford to put it on because you do a journey and the battery level,

you can see the battery level dropping. Why they've not thought about it. I've got no idea.

Mind you, there was a battery company which makes batteries for electric cars just gone bust in this country.

Just gone bust. A huge. So obviously, these cars are not taking off.

300 people lost their jobs immediately. This isn't one of these, oh, you know, we're trying to find a buyer for the company or get some investment in.

They've all lost their job straight away.

Can't remember they were called something battery, brick battery or something like that.

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