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Green motoring measures considered

An increase in the cost of buying and running cars which produce high levels of carbon emissions may be used to persuade motorists to choose greener options, it has been reported.

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GREEN MOTORING MEASURES CONSIDERED

10.11.07, 8:11pm

Some excellent points made here.

I just had another thought, IF everyone did start using buses and trains, they (the bus and train companies) wouldn't be able to cope anyway

So, we.might as well all give up work, because public transport would be in meltdown, and no-one could get there anyway.

Then the tax paying politicians can subsidize everyone, who will of course be living on benefits

• Posted by: BoggyDepot • Report Comment

GREEN MOTORING MEASURES CONSIDERED

10.11.07, 7:32pm

The only green thing I want to see over this issue is, the incredible hulk running into downing street to remove the noncredible bulk from his office, or orifice. Gordumb Broone just wants to have his cake with cherries on as we eat our handfull of rice per day, get off our backs and cut down the filthy buses that all the shysters are running down bus lanes.
It really winds me up, every little thing I buy for my car has VAT on it, from the wipers to the exhaust, it's pay, pay , pay, then the road tax, and the fuel, even the water I put in the wash bottle is paid for. Then, as I'm stuck in traffic jams that have been created by my local council, a subsidised bus goes past me in a bus lane that used to be part of the road for everyone to use. On this bus are people that don't own a car, don't pay road tax, or any other costs to own a car, yet they can get to town before me on a privately owned bus that I subsidise through my council tax, and after 9 am, it runs up and down the same subsidised bus lane as empty as Gordumb Broones head. If we all caught the bus, where will the money come from? no motor cars, no motor industry, no garages, no need for mechanics, no spares industry etc, just buses and trains, what will happen when we all catch the bus with two or more bags of shopping, where do we put it?
Get off our backs, you grabbing Bast rds.And now they want to give us 6 points for speeding, at least the people that lose their jobs through having no licence can watch breakfast tv, instead of darting from place to place trying to earn a living, and then his or her job can be filled by one of the train hoppers from abroad for less money.....green measures, you are having a laugh, you slack jowelled git....

• Posted by: Mike4224 • Report Comment

WITHDRAW FROM THE KYOTO PROTOCOL

10.11.07, 9:39am

Why should the British people (as well as peoples of Europe) have to make huge economic sacrifices, ('green taxes, more expensive petrol, and air travel) to curb greenhouse gases, whilst developing nations such as China and India show no desire to curb their own??

China will overtake the United States as the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases this year, the Chinese economy, which is now growing at the unprecedented rate of 11 per cent annually, is sending carbon emissions from China's mushrooming coal-fired power stations beyond those of the whole of the US, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in April,this year.

EA estimates that the Chinese, who in 2006 are thought to have emitted about 5,600 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) to the Americans' 5,900, will this year emit about 6,020 million tonnes of CO2 to about 5,910 from the US. (Britain by contrast emits about 550 million tonnes.) Some claim these emissions cause the atmosphere to warm.

In the IEA's report; Fatih Birol, it's chief economist says; The future emissions of China, India and their fellows are increasingly recognised as the key to the future in preventing global warming. Their growth will swamp any cuts that the industrialised countries can make in emissions of their own; developed country cuts would have a "minimal" effect on the future C02 position compared to Chinese growth.

Mr Birol emphasised the scale of the problem yesterday by pointing out that in the next eight years alone, the Chinese would install, as new, as much energy generating plant as currently exists today in all of the 25 countries of the expanded European Union- a total of 800 gigawatts.

Ninety per cent of this would be coal-fired, that is, producing the most C02, and most of this, he said, would last for 50 to 60 years - "you can't shut down a power station after five or 10 years as that would be economic suicide".

Until China and India, sign up to Kyoto Protocol. The United Kingdom should withdraw from the treaty.

• Posted by: cstevens • Report Comment

WONDERFUL

10.11.07, 9:34am

Presuade? i would have thought force would have been the right word.it is ok for Gordum and the other wasters to swan about in their publicly funded Zil long wheel based gangster wagons.The peasants will all be forced to drive eco friendly dodo poo driven trabants.

• Posted by: diddleydoo • Report Comment

GREEN MOTORING MEASURES CONSIDERED

10.11.07, 9:32am

Visit the link below to learn the REAL truth about the causes if global warming:

http://www.greatglobalwarmingswindle.co.uk/

• Posted by: cstevens • Report Comment

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