My mate says I am polluting

Mrwong

Mrwong

Mrwong

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During our conversation, I told him I no longer shop in London, this includes food shopping. I told him I drive 7 or 8 miles away from west London to food shops etc. He asks why? told him the constant amount of driving restrictions linked to fines, I no longer want to support businesses in my area or adjacent. He said that I am creating extra pollution, I find it much cheaper to drive away from my local area.


Your thoughts?
 
I no longer shop locally because the stores are no-where as good as those 12 miles away, but when going down hill I switch off the V12 Jag and cruise a little.
 
OP seems to struggle with rocket science... and has such an interesting life, thanks for sharing, cool story bro, 10/10
 
I think your friend is correct.
I think you have some deeply unresolved mental health issues.
Walk get a bus.
You should talk to Google support to help get your Sexual frustration out.
 
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Mrwong said:
During our conversation, I told him I no longer shop in London, this includes food shopping. I told him I drive 7 or 8 miles away from west London to food shops etc. He asks why? told him the constant amount of driving restrictions linked to fines, I no longer want to support businesses in my area or adjacent. He said that I am creating extra pollution, I find it much cheaper to drive away from my local area.


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Get a grip, its not like you're jumping in a private jet and flying to New York for a pizza.
 
Efour said:
I think your friend is correct.
I think you have some deeply unresolved mental health issues.
Walk get a bus.
You should talk to Google support to help get your Sexual frustration out.
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I'm with the OP on this one. We no longer shop in, and rarely go to restaurants in central Birmingham, ~£10+ to park for a few hours is bad enough, but now it costs less in diesel to drive somewhere 20-30 miles away than the 4-5 miles into town and pay the pollution tax.

Public transport isn't an option as it's too unreliable (and would cost just as much for the 4 of us)
 
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Mrwong said:
During our conversation, I told him I no longer shop in London, this includes food shopping. I told him I drive 7 or 8 miles away from west London to food shops etc. He asks why? told him the constant amount of driving restrictions linked to fines, I no longer want to support businesses in my area or adjacent. He said that I am creating extra pollution, I find it much cheaper to drive away from my local area.


Your thoughts?
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does this guy go on holiday abroad? commute to work? order takeaways? does he eat meat? into fashion ? absolute plonker?

time to ditch him, tell him maintaining a friendship is too large a carbon footprint and you can't bare it anymore
 
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Haggisman said:
I'm with the OP on this one. We no longer shop in, and rarely go to restaurants in central Birmingham, ~£10+ to park for a few hours is bad enough, but now it costs less in diesel to drive somewhere 20-30 miles away than the 4-5 miles into town and pay the pollution tax.

Public transport isn't an option as it's too unreliable (and would cost just as much for the 4 of us)
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Just too expensive as you say parking, constant new rules with fines, etc. I do not see any point going to those shops anymore.
They just put up another sign on a road that I always used, now they restricted cars from driving up that road, it has become a nightmare.
They have closed off too many roads and converted 2 lanes into one lane.
Public transport is pretty bad and very dirty in London,
 
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You ranting about it all being inconvenient and finding it easier to drive Futher to make life easier doesn't stop you from making more pollution, which your friend is 100% correct, and what you asked. Simple fact.

Justifying that pollution is upto you.
Maybe talk to your local council and say you're unhappy with their traffic routing choices. I'm sure all the local shop owners would agree.

Get the bus. You live in London. It'll be cheaper than petrol.

Pretend your car is off the road for a week. How do you survive?

giphy.webp


Im playing devils advocate incase anyone cares.
It would be boring with 30 pages of "your friends a nob" answers.
 
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Efour said:
You ranting about it all being inconvenient and finding it easier to drive Futher to make life easier doesn't stop you from making more pollution, which your friend is 100% correct, and what you asked. Simple fact.
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Nothing to do with being inconvenient. It would be more convenient to be able to drive to the closer location, however we're being financially incentivised to create more pollution, ironically by supposed anti-pollution measures :cry:

Edit: agree with your reaction to this post. It's almost as if the government/local council have put in a half baked scheme with no forward planning or consideration of the indirect consequences, but of course our great and glorious leaders would never do such a thing... (jesus christ, it's hard to even type that while keeping a straight face :cry: )
 
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