Really?
You believe the video is sufficient evidence that the initial vehicle was a hybrid or EV and in fact any reasonable, disinterested observer would come to the same conclusion.
Hence, it must be the case that this same video is sufficient evidence that the sentence, "The vehicle involved was diesel-powered – it was not a mild hybrid, plug-in hybrid or electric vehicle," is false. Moreover, the fire investigators must know that they haven't sufficient evidence for this conclusion -- and they must also be familiar with the press release, so this must be a deliberate deception.
This sequence of inferences must be obvious to any reader.
- The video shows that the initial vehicle was an EV or hybrid.
- Hence, it is false that the initial vehicle is neither an EV or hybrid.
- Hence, the sentence "The vehicle involved was diesel-powered – it was not a mild hybrid, plug-in hybrid or electric vehicle," is also false.
- The fire investigators must know that they haven't sufficient evidence for the above sentence.
- Hence, the fact that the sentence is still on a press release, unamended, is evidence that the BF&RS is deliberately deceiving the public.
Now, we
might quibble over the last two propositions, but that (2) and (3) follow from (1) is undeniable.
Yet, curiously, you can't draw such a trivial inference when asked. Here's our exchange from May 6.
Why are you so damned timid to draw the conclusions from your own assertions? If the video shows a hybrid on fire and anyone can see that, then the press release contains a baldly false claim. Hence, the fire department is deceiving us.
Do tell me if I misrepresent you. From where I sit, there are two possibilities. The first is that you haven't the basic reasoning capabilities of a typical carrot. The second is that you somehow don't want to claim the fire department has deceived us, even though that is a consequence of your other claims. The principle of charity requires I place my money on the latter possibility, but I don't get your timidity.