Forest Green Rovers use electric team bus to visit Bristol

[Never to the dark side]

Coach on loan from Chinese firm Yutong,

these coach's are not made by the same company in France that have suspended their electric bus's in Paris due to two of the bus's catching fire.

[Bristol Rob]

So importing a bus from China is the greenest way to get to Bristol.....

[Port Said Red]

6 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

So importing a bus from China is the greenest way to get to Bristol.....

Until we resurrect our destroyed manufacturing industry, yes.

[Bristol Rob]

2 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

Until we resurrect our destroyed manufacturing industry, yes.

And discovery a mine full of the essential precious metals required to build them.  

[Port Said Red]

10 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

And discovery a mine full of the essential precious metals required to build them.  

That's no different to conventional manufacturing though.

[pongo88]

There must be still a few milk floats around that could be used. 

[GreedyHarry]

54 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

And discovery a mine full of the essential precious metals required to build them.  

They reckon there is enough lithium in Cornwall for the whole country’s needs. Now if only there was an established industry with the necessary skills to get it out of the ground….

[Bristol Rob]

22 minutes ago, pongo88 said:

There must be still a few milk floats around that could be used. 

They'm all vegan, they don't do cow juice.

[Akira]

Don't quite get the constant bashing on here over FGR. They're trying to do the right thing, which affects every single person alive today, and future generations. Other clubs with disgustingly large budgets should be ashamed that they'd rather spend £100m on players but not try to be the leading force for green football, but instead it's a low league club that's leading the way by some distance. Sure, it isn't going to solve global warming, but as a collective effort, it'll absolutely help, and other clubs from overseas might try and follow suit. Gotta start somewhere!

Fair play to FGR once again.

[italian dave]

2 hours ago, Bristol Rob said:

So importing a bus from China is the greenest way to get to Bristol.....

I think that when the rest of us stop buying container loads of goods from China every year we can maybe start criticising FGR for this. In principle, I agree with the sentiment Rob; I try very hard to avoid buying stuff made in China but it’s pretty near impossible even when you try, and I suspect most people don’t give two hoots. 

And, incidentally, doesn’t just about every Tesla come from China?

[steveybadger]

58 minutes ago, Akira said:

Don't quite get the constant bashing on here over FGR. They're trying to do the right thing, which affects every single person alive today, and future generations. Other clubs with disgustingly large budgets should be ashamed that they'd rather spend £100m on players but not try to be the leading force for green football, but instead it's a low league club that's leading the way by some distance. Sure, it isn't going to solve global warming, but as a collective effort, it'll absolutely help, and other clubs from overseas might try and follow suit. Gotta start somewhere!

Fair play to FGR once again.

Nail on the head. It’s easy to mock and quite possibly hides other’s guilt at not doing enough.

[Wiltshire robin]

2 hours ago, italian dave said:

I think that when the rest of us stop buying container loads of goods from China every year we can maybe start criticising FGR for this. In principle, I agree with the sentiment Rob; I try very hard to avoid buying stuff made in China but it’s pretty near impossible even when you try, and I suspect most people don’t give two hoots. 

And, incidentally, doesn’t just about every Tesla come from China?

Your right about buying from china but we certainly don’t make it easy for ourselves to make it cheaper here . Another example going slightly off context is it’s cheaper for the company I work for to send our waste to china than it is to send it 5 miles down the road to a local company .

[Akira]

42 minutes ago, Wiltshire robin said:

Your right about buying from china but we certainly don’t make it easy for ourselves to make it cheaper here . Another example going slightly off context is it’s cheaper for the company I work for to send our waste to china than it is to send it 5 miles down the road to a local company .

Absolutely mind blowing and totally wrong really isn't it!

[Bristol Oil Services]

7 hours ago, pongo88 said:

There must be still a few milk floats around that could be used. 

Geoff Dunford, his milk floats used to bring all theFew boys to the Mem, and they were like: "this is better than the Shit" (you might not "get" this song ref, pong, but don't worry) ...

[Tin Soldier]

10 hours ago, Akira said:

Don't quite get the constant bashing on here over FGR. They're trying to do the right thing, which affects every single person alive today, and future generations. Other clubs with disgustingly large budgets should be ashamed that they'd rather spend £100m on players but not try to be the leading force for green football, but instead it's a low league club that's leading the way by some distance. Sure, it isn't going to solve global warming, but as a collective effort, it'll absolutely help, and other clubs from overseas might try and follow suit. Gotta start somewhere!

Fair play to FGR once again.

Agreed, FGR are putting many clubs to shame. The owner is leading this and he has got to be given credit. Gr8 to see a ‘village’ football club doing well. 

Edited May 3, 2022 by Tin Soldier

[luke_bristol]

All the green initiatives in the world won’t overmatch the carbon footprint of Dale Vince’s three children (or Swampy’s 4, or the arch bishop of Canterbury’s SIX)