Don’t get me wrong I know cars emit a lot of co2 etc but the motorist is heavily taxed enough as it is without adding more!.
It wouldn’t be so bad if there was more alternatives but the public transport outside major towns in this country is a joke! What are we supposed to do? go back to the good old days of waggon and horses when it took weeks rather than hours to get somewhere?
Why isn’t our government pushing car manufacturers towards alternatives more?(fuel cells etc) instead of looking for ways of penalizing people that cant afford new more efficient cars or just cant do without there car.
Oh! and whilst I’m venting…lol…how come people keep attacking the motorist for his polluting ways when they’re quite happy to go of on there holidays in a plane that can put out more co2 into the environment in one trip than my car(2litre turbo) in a year!..bloomin hypocrites!………Whinge over.
Originally posted 2008-12-23 14:52:19.
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Its the habit of passing feel-good laws aimed at making you believe that your government is doing something about the environment. An embargo on third-world goods would probably be more effective, since that is where the bulk of the world’s greenhouse gasses are produced.
its the liberals that cause all this , they have nothing better to do than to see what they screw up next, like Ralph Nader, this person causes or has caused more grief than most
The current administration is pushing hydrogen cars now as a carrot they can dangle for having a cleaner environment sometime in the future. The problem is that they are not pushing car manufacturers to make automobiles that get higher gas mileage. This would hurt the oil industry.
Thank goodness, though that consumers are now demanding vehicles that run on ethanol as well as gasoline so that they have a choice at the pumps. Consumers have also voted for hybrid vehicles as a way to cut gasoline consumption, which is why Toyota for the first time ever has beaten Ford in U. S. sales.
If the consumer wants it loudly enough, the government and industry will usually comply (eventually).