London set to ban older cars.
- Thread starter Third Opinion
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Taxi's are included, what's the lifetime projection on the non-boris buses?
Nah, I'm a believer that this kind of thing (and the "moron" road tax system) is just there to prop up a flagging new car industry and put money in the coffers.
Think about it - for every £10,000 car sold the government get a cool two grand.
Get the majority of the brainless population believing it and the money will start rolling in quickly.
No doubt the transportation the MPs use will be somehow exempt from these regulations. If it wasn't it wouldn't get passed.
SkodaMart
SkodaMart
Some or all of that post is bang on!
Lets boost the economy by forcing people to upgrade their cars.
Looks like a poor tax to me.
Nothing to do with energy security
Pollution/health
EU carbon limits we've agreed to and will be fined massive amounts if we don't comply.
In the eyes of the government, no.
Again, why should the government care? They don't have to pay it!
SkodaMart
SkodaMart
That was my feeling!!
I enjoy taking my family to London for day trips, but I wouldn't be in a financial position to replace my car to be compliant!
And the sooner we ******* get out of the EU the better!!
What a short sighted silly view. Its far from perfect, but its still good and implement a lot of things we would be worse off without.
That was my feeling!!
I enjoy taking my family to London for day trips, but I wouldn't be in a financial position to replace my car to be compliant!
Why on earth would you drive into the centre. Why would you pay the congestion charge, drive to the outskirts and get public transport in, that way you avoid any sub schemes.
Slightly OT, but Glaucus, when the EU fined Microsoft, who did you side with?
I'll say it - I do agree with you there. I don't agree with this rule but really, there's little point in taking a car into central London unless it's an utter necessity. The PT system there is very good, far better than most of the UK.
SkodaMart
SkodaMart
Horaay for a massive influx of migrant workers/criminals (delete as appropriate). Taking the jobs we don't have.
Have you seen the state of the UK economy?
Out of EU full stop.
u wot m8
The response to my OT question. Just wondered, that's all. Back on topic.
The big diluter to the CO2 and air quality argument is that we tax cars on emissions, fine high polluters etc. but then we don't do it based on actual miles driven.
We also let the likes of China and USA pump tons of CO2 from coal into the atmosphere and (seem) to put little pressure on them to change.
If global warming, pollution, and air quality is a problem I'm happy to address it, as long as "we're all in it together" (tm D.Cameron).
It's the buses that cause poor air quality.
Go back to your daily mail properganda, or better still go look out the window.
Its everything, it is far from just buses.
The response to my OT question. Just wondered, that's all. Back on topic.
The big diluter to the CO2 and air quality argument is that we tax cars on emissions, fine high polluters etc. but then we don't do it based on actual miles driven.
We also let the likes of China and USA pump tons of CO2 from coal into the atmosphere and (seem) to put little pressure on them to change.
If global warming, pollution, and air quality is a problem I'm happy to address it, as long as "we're all in it together" (tm D.Cameron).
China and us do not affect our air quality significantly. Inner city pollution is almost entirely are own doing. and china and America are actually doing a lot fir CO2 reduction. China has one of the biggest nuclear building programs.
Banning Microsoft from bundling software, didn't help anyone.
Emissions, minimum product specs(light bulbs, vacuums, guareentes), river pollution and a whole host of other EU regulations are beneficial to everyone.