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datalas:
You know, I never actually knew that my car produced a shed load of emissions even when parked ...

what's more is I didn't realise that localised fluctuations in space time mean that,  if parked with the engine off in a congested city during rush hour it produces more carbon than when driving up a quiet motorway... apparently...

you know, if I were cynical, I'd start to think that all the recent attempts at "green tax" are focussing on the best ways of collecting revenue rather than attacking the problem itself.

Attack the problem, not the symptom.   We need a public transport system that provides a real alternative to driving a car,  we need a public school system which allows parents to find a standard of education that they are happy with within walking distance of where they live,  we need less media led hysteria about children being raped the moment they leave the house, we need a concerted effort to facilitate people living closer to work,  we need tax incentives to persuade people to walk to their work places.....

what we don't need is another blanket taxation on people leaving their cars at home...

schuee:

--- Quote from: "Lord Shagg-Pyle" ---Have any of you good folks read a book called The Aachen Memorandum?
I read it a few months ago and found it quite startling.
It is set in the not to distant future, 2045 I think where the UK no longer exists, but is divided into 'Regions' within a 'United States of Europe', where the USA is seen as the bad country.
The Royal Family no longer exists, although there is King William 1st of New Zealand.
All drugs have been legalised, and there are two types of Olympics, one for steroids and one without.
There is a bridge over the Channel.
All cars are environmentally sound, and only the 'Authorities' are allowed fossil fuel cars.
Napolean and Hitler are seen as the Great European thinkers, because they wanted a United Europe.
Waterloo Station has been re-named Jaques Delour Station.
Football is still played, but in a non-competative way. The singing of any National anthem is frowned upon, but is sung as a sign of the growing discontent of the 'masses'

I think you can see where I coming from on this. It may be a work of fiction, but it is quite scary.

Check it out.

How to resolve the issue of the anti 4x4 lobby? Not a clue. But I am certainly getting fed up with being called an environmental terrorist, a demonic driver and all the other cr*p this lot come out with.
Does Margeret Beckett get all this grief from her fellow MP's when she tows her caravan with her Range Rover? I think not.
I do not in any way advocate breaking the law, but we should encourage everyone we can to vote to get this high handed, self opinionated group of cotton wool wrapped hypocrits (correct spelling?) out of power.

Is it any wonder that people are leaving this country in droves?
Freedom of thought and speech?
MY A**E!
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My apologies if you have already read this post on the DOC forum.
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blade:
all run on veggie oil lower emissions then we can park for less have road tax reduced!!!

i dont think so the goverment will sc**w us either way

muddyweb:
The thing that irritates me more than anything is that it is always "4x4 gas guzzlers"

At what point did 4x4s become the only vehicles that produce exhaust emissions ?


The media seems to have bought into the propaganda that 4x4s are all evil, polluting vehicles, and that no vehicle could possibly have high emissions unless it is a 4x4.

Yes, we need to reduce our global emissions...   focusing on 4x4 owners has not, is not and will not help.

Bulli:
i think if a study was properly carries out 4x4 probably dont produce as much pollution in a year as the average car. I for one dont do huge mileages and the people driving hundreds of miles a week rarely use a 4x4.
The trouble is that it makes people feel better about themselves when they can focus on someone else. What are most people doing about their carbon footprint? Nothing! The average is 9.3 tonnes mine is under 3.5......... foreign hols , get them banned? Not likely.

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