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Disabled man gets fake parking ticket Nov 1 2005

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jnoshea:
If greenpeace manage to convince the government to increase road tax on my disco then I will have to save the money from elsewhere in my budget.  The easiest for me would be to stop buying 100% renewable electricity from GoodEnergy and switch to a cheaper fossil-burning supplier.  I would also have to stop investing in forestry to pay for the increased tax.  Since my household energy consumption produces 3 times more CO2 in a year than my car..the environment loses out big time. Do these people not see the bigger picture?

the loon:
from the above mail I asked greenpeace about "4X4 off road competitions" and got this rather curt and wonderfully vauge reply

Hello Lisa

Many thanks for your response to my mail.

I've read your reply and would just like to ask one further question.

What is greenpeaces current view on people such as myself who use there 4x4's for off road competition?

I belong to 2 offroad compotition clubs and regularly take part in 4x4 events around the north eastern area.
These are well structured organised events not just blasting around the countryside tearing up the enviroment.
we only use sights with full permisson from landowners and there can be as many as 25 vechicles taking part on a monthly basis.
Many competitors have had LPG systems fitted to reduce the running costs and decrease enviromental impact.
I look forward to hearing your organisations views

was the question I asked and got this back

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We don’t take a view on issues we don’t campaign on. Our campaign is about road transport and fuel consumption at present. Off road competitions or other types of motor sport do not fall under this.
But of course we all need to reduce our CO2 emissions for the sake of the climate.
end quote

well thats certainly clears up that issue.
As long as we only have 4x4's to take part in compotition's and use as utility vechicles and dont drive them in towns etc we all can all get along fine.
So guess we all need to drive 2CV's to tow our modified disco's,90's,jimnny's,jeep's etc to events  

 :roll:  :?  :roll:

Cherry Bomb:
"We don’t take a view on issues we don’t campaign on."

Corr!......if only real life was that simple! :roll:

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