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Carwow is a UK company - how does that work in France?

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Portsmouth has only two ferry operators using the facilities , Brittany Ferries and Condor. They don't have a dedicated freight terminal. Crossing times are long, fuel is expensive, so cost of crossing is high, as BF passengers know only too well. Dover on the other hand has a dedicated freight/cargo terminal. Crossing times are much shorter so much cheaper. Ferry operators using Dover are DFDS Dover>Calais, DFDS Dover >Dunkirk, Irish Ferries Dover >Calais and P & O dover >Calais In addition, the road distance to Calais for fresh food exports from the Netherlands, Belgium, and Northern France is shorter than to Caen, St Malo, Le Havre. Nothing to do with Brexit, a lot to do with crossing times, cost and freight handling facilities.

Enlarging the story in the Midi Libre report - Fine of 270 euros etc "He ultimately won't have to pay. The SNCF decided on Wednesday to cancel the fine of 270 euros imposed on a passenger of the Paris-Lyon TGV who had exchanged his second class seat with another first class traveler, reports BFMTV . Hugues, a young passenger(in second class seat) had indeed agreed to exchange places to allow a father (in first class seat) to be next to his son (in second class seat). But that was without counting on the controllers. The conductor strictly applied SNCF rules and sanctioned the young man for not having a first class ticket. And this despite the intervention of the father of the family. A “rare” situation Offended by the lack of understanding of the railway company agents , Hugues decided to share his misadventure on social networks . “No one has been wronged in the story, all the seats have been paid for, but because of two cowboys who think they are in the wild west, the SNCF is being hated even more,” he lamented on X ( formerly Twitter). https://www.20minutes.fr/societe/4080173-20240307-passager-verbalise-avoir-echange-place-sncf-excuse-annule-amende-270-euros

Aldi ratatouille in a can is excellent - nice crunchy, slightly undercooked veggies in a tasty sauce.

The"we're all doomed', ecolo hysteria" is a narrative originally created by the United Nations. What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries?... In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about? Maurice Strong of the UN. Just about everything published today by the mainstream media on climate,weather, is designed to support that narrative. There is currently a co-ordinated campaign of misinformation by an organisation called Covering Climate Now. Covering Climate Now (CCNow) is an advocacy organization operating out of the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) at Columbia University in New York, USA. Their purpose is to spread fear and alarm about – or as they say “raise public awareness of” — what they claim is a “Climate Emergency” or “Climate Crisis” Their approach is to feed pre-written stories, editorial narratives and shared resources to magnify the voices of alarm to convince the world’s people that there is a Climate Crisis that demands everyone giving up fossil fuels, access to inexpensive electrical power, air travel, natural gas heating and cooking and the myriad other benefits of modern life that are a normal part of our developed societies. In addition, they provide story-sharing opportunities where stories in one media outlet can be freely re-posted/re-published to another, or used as the basis for “original” re-writing at another media outlet. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/05/22/following-the-money-covering-climate-now/

The Scientific Advances’ study’s conclusion is predicated on a single climate model, the Community Earth System Model (CESM), projecting far into the future and it’s also predicated on an amount of ice melt that has not happened in our lifetimes. Even then, the CESM had to have its pump primed with unrealistic meltwater data in order for the researchers to come to the conclusion they got. What they did was to run the model, then add modeled freshwater very gradually to the modeled North Atlantic, presumably simulating a melting of the Greenland ice which might shut down the AMOC. There’s only one problem; the amount of freshwater from melting that they injected into the model is about five times the actual amount of ice available in Greenland to melt." So it's very much a fake news scenario. https://climaterealism.com/2024/02/no-cnn-and-other-media-outlets-climate-change-is-not-causing-the-ocean-circulation-to-collapse/

As far as I am aware from the scant info on the news item I read - it's that the gendarmes/police will have mobile access to the information which they haven't had before, some sort of mobile device - tablet perhaps?

I've not got a wood pellet stove/heater nor any plans to get one, but you should be aware of the variable cost of the pellets. https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/If-you-heat-French-home-with-wood-pellets-now-may-be-good-time-to-buy https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2022/11/14/amid-europe-s-energy-crisis-france-s-wood-pellet-industry-is-feeling-the-heat_6004266_19.html Pellet stoves got popular, now the supply side for pellets is getting tighter. If you do get to using wood pellets be aware of the dangers of storing them - they can give off carbon monoxide and there have been fatalities involved.

Having a fake driving licence card won't cut it from this year - the police/gendarmes will have mobile access to the databases.

Ooops!🤣

Two recent events - the price of the diesel fuel they must use, the marginal profitabilty of their boats depends to a large extent on the price of the fuel, a few cents per litre increase means they are running at at a loss because of the amount they use. And Biscay fishermen are on a month's lay off to protect dolphins which get caught in the nets - breeding season etc.

"I cannot understand why the system in the USA can select a convicted sex offender" You need to understand that Donald Trump is not a convicted sex offender. It was a civil case not a criminal prosecution. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/05/16/no-trump-is-not-required-to-register-as-a-sex-offender-fact-check/70217795007/ Now let's look at some real lying and corruption with all the bank records and copies of cheques now in the public domain. Yes it's the lifting of the stone that the Biden Crime Family has been hiding under and look what slithered out ! "Joe Biden received $40,000 in laundered China money from the account of his brother, James Biden, and his sister-in-law, Sara Biden, in the form of a personal check (including an image of the cheque) https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-reveals-how-joe-biden-received-laundered-china-money/ And that's just the tip of the Biden family chinese-dollar iceberg. Why hasn't Biden been prosecuted, impeached, etc?

Why on earth would would any sane person in the USA vote for Biden? Apart from the media concocted "Orange Man Bad" faction of course!