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Previous Govenment policy to waste our petrol to gain tax money????

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carbore:
Just read a bizzare comment in a press item

Previously the Department for Transport (DfT) had discouraged the systems which reduce fuel use, resulting in less tax being paid to the Treasury.

But now, rather than seeing green wave systems as a "cost" to the public purse, the DfT views them as a "benefit"."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7998182.stm

Now I know the Press (esp BBC) are not that reliable in thier writign but are they sayign IT WAS GOVERNMENT POLICY to put in/encourage systems to WATE PETROL IN ORDER TO GAIN MONEY!

If so thats absolutley shocking and (greenies note) a crime against the environment.

I wonder if any motoring mag will pick this up and make an issue out of it (coz the AA will just suck up)

Range Rover Blues:
I've long believed that a lot of government policy about traffic management increases fuel consumption and polution but I didn't realise it was quite so deliberate.

V8MoneyPit:
It's just another example like the one in LSP's thread.

So called traffic calming measures will always cause more pollution because the way drivers tend to accelerate between them. And the fact the vehicles are not travelling anywhere near their optimum speed for economy. Obviously, it's crazy to expect vehicles to be doing 56mph in a built up area. They may reduce incidents involving pedestrians, but they certainly don't reduce polution (noise or fumes).

And the government sit back rubbing their hands together with glee because of all the extra income from the fuel consumed. And the VAT they get from the sale of replacement parts due to wear and tear to vehicles bouncing over speed bumps. It's simply not in their interests to own up to the negative side effects of these systems.

Lord Shagg-Pyle:
Soon will be the Summer of Discontent! It has been a long time coming.

crazymac:

--- Quote from: Lord Shagg-Pyle on April 14, 2009, 20:05:10 ---Soon will be the Summer of Discontent! It has been a long time coming.

--- End quote ---

I'd fully expected the Winter if discontent but it never seemed to materialise :roll:

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